Comments on: Texas Arresting People for Being Drunk in Bars

By: parasites

parasites — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:04:12 +0000

Your tax dollars at work. Texans have never been known for high IQ but I guess the police force in all countries are about the same ... IQ challenged.

They should start raiding homes for people getting pissed, how about nuking all homes in sight, there's always a possibility that there is a tax payer getting pissed somewhere.

By: brian

brian — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:10:40 +0000

I say everyone get together and file a suit against TABC, and someone put a stop to this madness. Whats next are they going to bring back the prohibition? If something is not done your next superbowl party may have some undercover visitors. How would that be, cause that's what is next everyone who has a chance needs to fight back. There is no need to make preventative arrest for drinking, who is to say your going to drive. Are you going to arrest an angry person because you think they might get in a fight. I don't think so, so what is the problem with drinking.

By: bennellibrothers.com

bennellibrothers.com — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:12:15 +0000

No more drunks allowed in Texas bars...

Looks like Johnny Law down in Texas has a little bit too much time on his hands:Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkenness, [Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission spokeswoman Carolyn] Beck said. The......

By: The Unabrewer

The Unabrewer — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:18:25 +0000

The public safety argument is ludicrous, as you could get drunk in your own home or apartment instead, and still leave the house, walk into traffic, drive a car, jump out your window, etc.

By: legion

legion — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:09:56 +0000

Ron White rules! "I didn't know how many of 'em it was gonna take to whup my ass, but I knew how many they was gonna use!" But seriously, Patrick's got the point - it's not how you define 'drunk', but how you define 'public' that will determine how this travesty is handled by the courts.

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By: cirby

cirby — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:11:47 +0000

Something that non-Texans need to keep in mind is that the TABC has always been made up of this sort of jerk. They go out and do this sort of thing from time to time to remind everyone just how much power the TABC has over bar owners. There's also been a stroing taint of corruption in the TABC, since officers have been known to get into deals with some bars where they would go out and harass other bars in the neighborhood. I'd bet that there's somme big sports bar or the like in the area that got pissed because the hotel guests were getting decent drinks instead of watered-down crap...

By: LJD

LJD — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:43:28 +0000

It's all Ron White's fault: 'I wasn't drunk in pub-lick, I was drunk in a bar! You threw me into pub-lick'

By: Patrick McGuire

Patrick McGuire — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:31:22 +0000

How do they reconcile a law against "public intoxication" and being drunk in a private establishment? I can see them arresting people as they leave the bar, but not while they are within its confines.

Something tells me that these arrests won't hold up under a legal challenge.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:30:14 +0000

Whatever: I consume alcohol with great regularity but seldom, if ever, to excess. I just think this is a rather great infringement on liberty, not to mention waste of taxpayer resources, for virtually no counterbalancing societal gain.

By: whatever

whatever — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:12:21 +0000

"Drunk" is not defined in the article. I would assume that the nominal limit is blowing a .08, which is the illegal limit for driving a car, but maybe if you can show you aren't driving it is higher. That being said, do you go get "drunk" every time you go to a bar? Every time you drink?

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