I like that one better. According to my buddy who lived in Southern California and they had DUI checkpoints all weekend long. I would have no problem seeing several police cars outside of major bars during the evening.
We need more people like rimbaud to flush out these illiteratay -- down with with the readingless up with phonics. GET HOOKED
Per Mr. Brightside "Yea, I'll ask your mom about the course when I "talk" to her next time." Easy homes-you don't want him to go Joe Rogan on you...
I have a problem with drunk people walking around the streets, so yes I have a problem with "being drunk in public". Wanna get drunk stay home is my motto...
We pay tax too, so as long as we are not harming you sober people, why can't we walk on the streets we paid to build? And if stay home and drink is your style, that's good for you, but people built bars for a reason you know.
You need to call Mr. Brightside for some HoP learnin' because **** is not a word. Brightside - my mother is a mute so I don't appreciate you mocking her like that. I know she cant "talk" and it hurts deep down inside.
this sounds like some thing out of the patriot act. if you get drunk in bars you are aiding terrorists. you are either sober with us or drunk against us.
Same reason I don't want someone high on crack walking around the streets bumping into people. It's not just for other people's safety, it's for your own as well. I don't want to be driving down the road late one Saturday night only to have a guy drunk out of his f***ing mind -- who can barely walk straight -- accidentally fall in front of my car and have me hit him/run him over like a squirrel. Basically, I think it's definitely an issue of public safety, and therefore concerns society at large as well as law enforcement. BTW, if people want to get drunk in bars, that's fine, I guess that qualifies as 'indoors' or a 'designated area' for consuming drugs. I should've said "keep the drinking inside" but always have a non-drinker tag along with you just to get you back home safe and make sure you don't do anything stupid in that mild state of unconsciousness (which is what being drunk is). People do stupid things when drunk. I don't have a source for this, but just by watching the local news every night, alcohol seems to be a factor in at least half of all 'accidents' and crimes in our society. It's funny how shootings seem to be more commonplace in and around bars/night clubs; not to mention the thousands who've been killed over the years by drunk drivers. So consume all you want, just keep it off the streets, same way I want to keep those high on crack off the streets, not a pleasant sight.
How can they prove that the person is going to drive? How can they prove that the person is going to jump from a roof? I understand that the reasoning for the arrest is the intoxication itself. However, the real reason is to prevent crimes that haven't been committed. That ain't right. I don't want to see drunk drivers either. I always get someone sober to drive me when needed. I always help out a friend if I'm sober and he isn't. Jeff's idea is the most logical (which, ironically, is the largest reason it would never be used). Post those same officers in their car and get them the second that car budges. Give them a breathalizer on the spot. Arrest them if they are illegally drunk and also get them for DWI in the meantime. There's more money in a DWI than public intoxication. I wonder where they were a few months ago when a Round Rock police officer was pulled over for drunk driving after getting smashed at a bar during happy hour and driving down I-35.
This is not an insignificant issue. About 10 years ago, I was on my way home from a gig in Galveston and my drummer, who was about four carlengths ahead of me, hit a woman on I 45 in Clear Lake who was completely drunk and stumbling across the freeway. This was at about 3am. They shut down 2 lanes of the freeway and were going to arrest my friend. When they realized how messed up the woman was, they let him go but impounded his truck for evidence. They released it like a week later. The woman didn't die, but my friend spent a night in the back of a cop car, a week without a vehicle and months suffering nightmares from seeing this woman fall out in front of him. God knows how he would've felt if she died instead of just getting clipped by his truck. Speaking as someone who spends a lot of sober nights driving home from gigs - sometimes from other cities - I want the police to do whatever they can to keep drunks off the roads. I still think there is a better way to police it than nailing people in bars, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be part of an overall strategy.
