Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk

[fartwinkle]

Originally posted by Pei
I fear for the AH Con

I hear that:O

[RAIDER14]

well its called preventing death or accidents

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Kaw1000
Yea well I gotta tell you that if you drink 1 beer  just 1 beer you can be charged with a DUI....what a joke!!

Depends on what the State classifies as "DUI".   Some States have Zero Tolerence, so yeah, live by the sword and "roll the dice", you deserve what you get.  

But, you seem to be around 22-24 years of age and have a "grudge about authority figures".  

Karaya

[RAIDER14]

the average IQ of the nation would jump 10 points.

so your calling everyone in Tx stupid???

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by z0rch
If they get around to arresting people for being stupid, maybe dubya would spend more time in DC.

Texas should just declare their independence. That way Dim Son would no longer be a US citizen and the average IQ of the nation would jump 10 points.

They can arrest a drunk in a bar, but can't manage to come up with any charges against the drunk who shoots his lawyer friend in the face.

But that badge sure does look good with them there boots and hats and belt buckle.

Sweet troll!

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by RAIDER14
so your calling everyone in Tx stupid???

"you're"

[Shuckins]

I stopped finding drunks amusing after I grew up.

That happened in the summer before I entered the 10th grade.  A friend of mine was killed by a drunk driver.

Considering drunks cause about half of the 40,000 or more highway fatalities in our country each year, I couldn't care less about their "right to privacy."

Have a nice day.

[john9001]

once upon a time it was DWI, "driving wile intoxicated", but the law had to prove you were intoxicated, that was too hard to do , so they changed the law to DUI," driving under the influence", that can mean anything.
DUI gives the towns a great source of income and gives the cops something to do to keep them from getting bored chasing real criminals.


and shuckins ,a little more than 1/4 of all highway deaths are "alcohol related" and half of them are the drivers that were drinking, lets hear some moral outrage about all the people slaughtered by sober drivers.

[Shuckins]

Any person who drinks and gets behind the wheel of a car is a criminal.  Drunks kill more people than all the gang-bangers combined.

They are not cute.  They are not funny.  They have no right to endanger the lives of others with their juvenile and irresponsible actions.

[Shuckins]

Of the 43,220 highway fatalities recorded last year...40% were alcohol related.  I checked the facts...so my original estimate was closer to reality than yours.

So...even supposing that you HAD been right in your estimate of only 1/4 of highway fatalities being due to alcohol, is "only" 10,000 deaths a year really more palatable?

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by kevykev56
Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk


SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - 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.
 

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That should read........................

"Texas  began sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk somewhere around twenty to twenty five years ago, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday."

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This certainly isn`t anything new.

[lasersailor184]

Originally posted by Shuckins
Of the 43,220 highway fatalities recorded last year...40% were alcohol related.  I checked the facts...so my original estimate was closer to reality than yours.

So...even supposing that you HAD been right in your estimate of only 1/4 of highway fatalities being due to alcohol, is "only" 10,000 deaths a year really more palatable?

And roughly 50% is due solely to women driving...

[Pooh21]

Originally posted by Pei
I fear for the AH Con

we are safe I dont think their jail is big enough to hold us all.

[rpm]

Having over 15 years in the liquor buisness in Texas, let me 'splain this to you.

It is illegal to be intoxicated in Texas in public. (A bar is a public place.)

It is illegal to be in an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages if you are intoxicated.

It is illegal for someone to remain on the premises of an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages if they are intoxicated.

It is illegal to allow someone to enter an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages if they are intoxicated.

It is illegal to serve alcoholic beverages to an intoxicated person. (This means if you go get your buddy a drink after he has been cut off YOU go to jail.)


This is nothing new from the TABC. They have been sending undercover agents into bars, liquor stores, ect. for as long as I can remember.

The TABC also has a program called "Clerk or Cop?" where they work behind the counter and  bust underage or intoxicated customers. They don't do it on premise, they let you leave the store with your purchase then another agent pulls you over down the road (extra DWI charge that way). This is entrapment in my book. Nothing is done to the TABC agent that sells you the booze, but if an employee does it the employee is ticketed for breaking the law.

Fun buncha guys and gals at the TABC.

[Morpheus]

Originally posted by Kaw1000
Yea well I gotta tell you that if you drink 1 beer  just 1 beer you can be charged with a DUI....what a joke!!

I go out and have a few drinks quite often durring the week. Play some pool, shoot the breeze and have a good time. There is no need to get sloppy drunk every night then put your life, even more so the lives of those who happen to be driving/walking near by while your driving home from your nightly drinking binge, which is how you come across to me. Though, I could be wrong.  

You certainly seem to have a problem with cops in general. Which is sad, because I know, like I said, alot of cops who are good people and would bend over backwards to help anyone out who needs it.

I see no problem with cops, in any state, going into bars and arresting people for "being too drunk". Infact I think its a good idea. If you need to get drunk, do it at home, where you can then pass out and be a winner. I do think, that if there is a designated driver at the time the cop in the bar is trying to make an arrest, the cops should make the person who is being arrested, and the designated driver, leave.

Just last month my sister and her boyfriend got rear ended by a drunk up near campus. Thankfully no one was hurt. Drunk drivers should go to jail... End of story. It is no different than someone waving a loaded gun around on the street. Someone is going to get hurt... A drunk, behind the wheel is just as dangerous... and both the gun and vehicle the drunk is driving are deadly weapons.