Live in Texas? Don't get drunk in the bars!

It was my impression that bars are pretty much the only LEGAL place you can go to in order to get plain-old shitfaced DRUNK, being private property and all.

I mean, if you can't get drunk at a bar, what the fuck is the point, right?

Being an idiot and drinking to the point of intoxication is not technically against the law. Unless an actual crime is committed (unruly behavior, assault of any kind), its really not illegal to be annoying unfortunately.

At this pace, they may as well just outlaw booze all together if you ask me. If they don't want people drunk (and thats the motivation behind arresting drunk people at a bar), maybe they should just recede into history with prohibition in Texas! I am sure the Texans will TOTALLY ABIDE!

I love this country. People will lay down and take anything. Sometimes I wonder if the people in power are playing a huge joke on the nation. "Lets see what kind of insane laws the people will take TODAY!"

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by CloudNine

But still, they are doing something that will inevitable cause them to break the law. If you get drunk at the bar, you will inevitably leave the bar still drunk, thus breaking the public drunkeness law. Any argument otherwise is pretty stupid.

It might be stupid, but they have a basis for doing it.

I think that the cops need to be fighting real crime instead of nabbing people who have caused no violent crimes and have done nothing wrong except drink too much.

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Originally Posted by Arainach

CloudNine, have you never heard of Designated Drivers?

I think he's saying that the moment they even WALK out of the bar, they're "publically intoxicated." No driving required. ^_^

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Originally Posted by ArrowHead

Besides, he could have rolled over in his sleep and accidentally put the car in gear.

You know, any asshole who isn't careful could do this. Regardless of being drunk or not.

You're saying it's pretty much illegal to be fucking stupid? If that were the case, sir, the jails would be overflowing - literally - with a huge percentage of the nation's population.

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Originally Posted by Fresh Frank

At least someone here has sense.

Well, I mean, seriously. It doesn't take ALCOHOL to make a person stupid, obnoxious and dangerous.

Consider all those fancy retarded caution labels they have to put onto all of these products out there.

On a hair dryer:
Do not use in shower.

Warning on a cartridge for a laser printer:
Do not eat toner.

Baby stroller warning:
Remove child before folding.

I mean, really. Adults who are getting drunk and walking home shouldn't be fucking bothered.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Lord Styphon

Unfortunately, there are lots of people who will disagree with you. Petty criminals looking for an easy victim, for instance. Or cops who used to sit outside bars and wait for people to walk out drunk before busting them for public intoxication.

Petty criminals looking for an easy target probably wouldn't go after a big drunken man.

In fact, if I were a petty criminal, I would sooner attack a young female scantily dressed with a weak bag than go after a drunken man walking out of a bar. She could be walking out of a bar, too. But then, she could be walking out of anywhere. Stupid bitches are easy to rob anywhere. They don't need to be drunk.

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As for the cops - I really think they ought to be focusing on the larger issues of the community than people who are causing no trouble or harm to anyone. Just let them walk it off.

Your jails must be vacant there in Texas.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Lord Styphon

A drunken man, however big, has advantages all his own. Being drunk, his reflexes will be impaired; that limits his ability to put up a fight. It also affects his memory, making it likely he won't remember whoever robbed him, and if he did, offering a clear opening for any public defender to blow holes in his testimony.

Drunken men are also usually more volatile and will strike for little reason. They have very little concept of consequence when drunk.

While you're right about them having less ability to control his reflexes, this could be more of a risk than a benefit to a petty criminal.

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They have great potential to cause trouble, though. They could run across the aforementioned people looking for an easy score. They could also destroy property, go looking for trouble themselves, wander off a sidewalk into the path of an oncoming car, or just fall off a bridge somewhere. That and people generally don't want drunks walking around near them.

Thats a risk whenever you walk out of your house.

I mean, I know it's a stretch here, but wouldn't you agree that any mentally retarded person or handicapped person could run the same risk?

Everyone has the "potential" to cause trouble. Especially those pesky petty criminals that get out on bail, commit another crime, get thrown back in jail, et cetera.

Then again, I don't know how the Texans work. I know personally at least 2 people who have been arrested on DUIs and have been released back to the public with little-to-no punishment only to strike and injure someone with their car whilst being intoxicated.

Its my opinion that the cops should be spending their time nailing those bastards to a wall - not the dude who is walking home after a few beers in the local canteen.

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Originally Posted by Eleo

This is true ocassionally.

The word is occasionally. Just for future reference. (Don't get offended.)

While its true occasionally, is it worth your statistical risk to chance it as a petty criminal?

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