Bar Sweep Sparks Controversy In Texas

[nascar55]

From NBC5 Dallas,Tx....mhttp://www.nbc5i.com/news/8169246/detail.htmlay you may won't to drink in anther state:beer: Officials Make Public Intoxication Arrests Inside Bars

[LincolnMcGrath]

1. Wow...

"Going to a bar is not an opportunity to go get drunk," TABC Capt. David Alexander said.

[DUHandle]

2. heh heh heh

I found clicking the Irresistible Headline button rewarding.

[Burried News]

7. Teen partying to raise bail money - arrested. :)

[Ilsa]

3. Not just inside bars, but in hotel bars where drinkers were staying.

Does this mean they have the right to come into my home because if I drink at home I might be a danger to myself? How far are these nazis going to carry this?

[nascar55]

6. yep

your right....that is why I posted it. whats next?:spank:

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. That's next with the drink nazis.

:grr: Is it still legal here (but up to the establishment) for a parent to order and serve alcohol to their underage kids? It was a few years ago.

[nascar55]

12. I know in

South Dakota it is or was 4 years ago:freak:

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. It was here in Texas, not sure if it still is. Guess I could google it.

:shrug:

[Canuckistanian]

4. Outlaw drunks and only outlaws will be drunks

Or something...

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Boo! These officials are nuts.

[Devlzown]

9. We're arresting people before they commit crimes now?

Let's just arrest people at birth. We all commit some sort of crime eventually.

[Tsiyu]

10. And once again

Texas leads the way in helping America's image around the world.

:sarcasm:

[Fleshdancer]

11. WHAT the hell???

From the article:

At one location, for example, agents and police arrested patrons of a hotel bar. Some of the suspects said they were registered at the hotel and had no intention of driving. Arresting authorities said the patrons were a danger to themselves and others.


"Going to a bar is not an opportunity to go get drunk," TABC Capt. David Alexander said. "It's to have a good time but not to get drunk."

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This is absolutely NUTS.

[nascar55]

17. the more you

you think about what you just read....the more pissed you get....man I can see em coming to my house this weekend while I am watchin the nascar race and takin me in cause I had a few beers on a sat. nite...:grr:

[seabeyond]

13. i think this is great. along with teacher in trouble for opera

get em all, get all of us. i say, when the majority went after smokers in hypocrisy,..... went over the line. i want everyone gotten. and then maybe,..... people will GET the "slippery slope" and we will stop this shit

[Generic Other]

14. Luckily, Bush and Cheney had left the state

And how come the cops in Texas are so vigilant now? They didn't even question Cheney about his drinking hours after he SHOT someone! Now they take a hard line position? A-holes.

[Ilsa]

27. Haaaa! Good catch.

[Greyhound]

15. Is it too late to give it back? n/t

[salin]

16. Question - what is the end result

jail time or just a big hefty fine? If it isthe latter would wonder if this is about trying to find new revenue sources?

[soothsayer]

18. Some jackbooted thugs tried this in Fairfax, Va, but I think they

must have been giving a good talking to after all the publicity, since I've not heard of it happening since then.

[giant_robot]

19. This quote says it all

TABC officials said the sweep concerned saving lives, not individual rights.

Hey, if Bush can violate our individual rights, why not the TABC?

A random thought on that note: I wonder what Silverspoon would have thought about this during his drinking days?

[FatDave]

21. That was my favorite bit too

You beat me to the post. It's not about rights! It's about safety! Now where have I heard that before?

[TreasonousBastard]

20. And that's right under a story about...

a guy who got released from prison when they found him innocent after 18 years.

Texas justice strikes again.

[izzybeans]

22. Don't seperate a republican and his Busch light.

We'll have to listen to that rebel yell bullshit again.

[Beelzebud]

23. This is where the Busy-Bodies are ruining our personal freedoms.

The anti-smoking zealots are in the same leauge as these people.

They don't really care about living in a free country.

They would prefer a fascist dictatorship as long as everything was going good for themselves...

[sarcasmo]

25. Looks like no Drinking in Texas for me. I wonder if anyone had a

Designated driver.

[jmowreader]

26. Yeah, this is fucking bullshit

I've been stationed in Texas twice--once as permanent party at Fort Hood (outside Killeen), once as a student at Goodfellow AFB (outside San Angelo).

The Fort Hood trip was first, and it seems that the TABC people had a land-office business going with their...well, creative...application of the Public Intoxication Law. They would set up TABC ambushes near the bars in Harker Heights and wait for cars coming from the direction of the bars to make little jiggly movements or otherwise indicate that the driver had been drinking, then pull over all the cars they could. If the driver was sober, they'd order the passengers out of the car, test them all and arrest all that were drunk. We couldn't do anything about it because the way the law was written, the side of the public highway was a public place and if you were in a public place when you were drunk you were guilty of PI. (Never mind the fact that you were only in the public place because the cops ordered you there.) All bars in Harker Heights own their parking lots, so they can declare the parking lot a private establishment which allows you to get from the bar to the taxi without getting busted. But yeah, I had LOTS of fun signing troops out of the Killeen jail. We even ran a duty roster.

Then on to Goodfellow. Part of our inprocessing was a talk with a San Angelo police officer. I told her about the Harker Heights shit and asked if that was going to be a problem in San Angelo. "They did WHAT? Oh god. That's so sick. No, you won't have a problem like that. We only pull you over if you're a danger to yourself, and we'd never pull passengers out of cars to test them. That's why you get a designated driver, so you can drink and not get arrested."

But yeah, Texas has long had a love-hate relationship with drinking.

[Ilsa]

28. Next: Arresting horny guys to prevent rape. Or how about

arresting a woman because her period is late and she might be pregnant and want to abort?

[kath]

29. well, in OK they're trying to pass a law requiring women to notify the

govt of all miscarriages.

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