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

That's bullshit. I'm assuming they had the bar owners OK on it, or else wouldn't it be private property and not really public drunkeness? Either way, this is one of the stupidest and worst things I've heard in a while.

What's the point in going to a bar if you aren't going to drink unless you are a DD?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Wouldn't it also be at the fault of the bartender since he's the one getting them drunk (despite being paid for serving them alcohol)?

See this seems like the kicker to me. If the officers recieved permission from the owner of the bar (which is the only way I can see this to be legal), wouldn't it be illegal to actually serve them to drunkeness? Also, if that is the case, how could they set up undercover agents to do this without them violating the law by ALLOWING them to be served?

Its like breaking the law so you can arrest someone for breaking the law.

In response to having no designated driver, taxis anybody?

EDIT: Ok, so there was a news story on this on NBC this morning. It seems completely illegal to me. One example of an arrest the police made was of this lady drinking at a hotel bar where she was staying at. Apparently they arrested 4 people at this place including the bartender for overserving them.

I hope they take this to court.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

This article does not seem to be telling the entire story. After watching that short bit they had on NBC this morning, I was extremely quirked by this, so I've been trying to find some things out.

First off, its hard as fuck to find anything on this operation. In the NBC report they had the police operation name in it, but there is absoulutely ZERO information on this on the MSNBC website. None. It took me forever just to find a site with the name of the operation of this.

Operation Last Call.
Unfortunately, this isn't the only one in the country so I limited it to Texas, and it STILL wasn't the only one in Texas. Apparently Texas had been deporting immigrants back in 1996-1998 for having DWIs (ha but the Supreme Court declared it illegal).

So finally I found a site that seemed to have some information on this. http://www.austin-tx-dwi.com/news/at...n.dwi.and.bars

I'm still trying to find numbers on people arrested, but it seems like 30 is probably way too low.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.