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Only the best laws come from Texas!

March 27, 2006 by in Stupid with 3 Comments

Thank you Texas, you make my job so easy.

Get fall-down drunk in a Texas bar and it may cost more than a bruised backside. Try $500 or a few hours in jail. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is sending undercover officers into bars to look for the exceedingly drunk, issuing citations or making arrests for public intoxication even if the patrons haven’t left the building.

Getting arrested for getting drunk in a bar, what’s NEXT? Mind you this said nothing about a violence – it is just for people who just get VERY drunk.

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  • http://www.tomshakely.com Tom Shakely

    This same subject caused a rather heated debate on my site a few days back. In the end, I tend to think the initiative’s benefit’s outweigh its detriments, especially since is is illegal to be publicly drunk (even in a bar) anyway.

  • http://www.mgroves.com boohiss

    This is the slippery slope of smoking bans. If we can ban a legal product from being used because secondhand smoke causes cancer (sometimes-maybe), then why can’t we ban public drunkenness because it causes secondhand drunk driving deaths (sometimes-maybe)?

    I would even speculate that more people die from drunk driving accidents than from secondhand smoke.

  • http://smurfturf.net/ xSmurf

    This just smells Fascism! I mean where do you draw the line from this to say bringing back prohibition! Tom you obviously don’t drink. I don’t drive, and however drunk I can be on a Friday night, it never hurt anyone (except my head the next morning). And you know what? Neither did I ever see any one in the, ever packed, night bus do. What are they going to come up next? Alcohol second hand breath vapours killing innocents?

    Why is it that Texan are so stiff that if you stuck coal up their ass it comes out in diamonds? I JUST WANT TO HAVE A LIFE!

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