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Being In a Bar Don't Give You the Right to Be Drunk

03.23.06 (3:54 pm) [edit]

Some Texans have clearly lost their mind. A recent story in Reuters reports:

Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday.

[...]

Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkeness, Beck said.

The goal, she said, was to detain drunks before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car.

If Wisconsin police decided to start behaving like that, the jails in Madison would overflow! College students fill up Madison bars and get pissy drunk every weekend.

Since when is it legal to arrest someone because you think they will go do something dangerous? Beck argues that being drunk in a bar is considered public drunkeness. I'm not sure I agree with that. Are bars public or private property? It's my idea that unless the bar is owned by the city, it's private property.

Madison, WI has banned smoking in all restaurants and bars; patrons have to smoke outside if they wanna light up. Again, are bars and restaurants public property? I don't smoke and I certainly don't mind the smoking ban, but I wonder just how far police and lawmakers will go.

Is Beck's approach the best way to end drunk driving? No. Drinkers will simply stay home and drink. Will she camp outside liquor stores and arrest people because she thinks they will go home, get pissy drunk, then get behind the wheel? Probably. She's from Texas!

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