Drunk in Texas

Taking after their former governor and current president, Texas has come up with the worst idea ever: preemptive arrests for being drunk... INSIDE the bar.

Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkenness, Carylon Beck said.

Public:
not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole; "the public good"; "public libraries"; "public funds"; "public parks"; "a public scandal"; "public gardens"; "performers and members of royal families are public figures"

Last I checked, most bars are privately owned, making them the opposite of public. Seems to contradict the ability to consider being drunk inside a bar public drunkenness.

"We feel that the only way we’re going to get at the drunk driving problem and the problem of people hurting each other while drunk is by crackdowns like this," she said.

"There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they’re intoxicated, other than get behind the wheel of a car," Beck said. "People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss."

So, instead of encouraging responsible drinking and designated drivers, they'll arrest people that haven't commited a crime? Since when is it the police's job to protect us from ourselves? If I'm an idiot and I get drunk and try and jump in a pool, that's my own damn fault.

This will work about as well as prohibition. People will hold parties in their private homes (or are they considered public too?), partiers will drive home drunk and try and jump in pools from balconies.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11965237/

Huh?

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