Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#0Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:10am
My own aversion to alcohol aside, I really wish this was a joke. But as always, Texas is redefining reality as we know it.
In a sting operation, police officers have been raiding bars and arresting drunks "before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car." Because evidently being drunk in a bar counts as public intoxication.
Yeah.
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#1re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:13amNow Ron White can get arrested for being drunk in public AND for being drunk in a bar? Guess that's why they call him Tater Salad.
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#2re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:14amSheesh! With that mindset, how much farther away can prohibition be?
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SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#3re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:20amOK, so let's say I'm drinking in my apartment and a person comes to my door to deliver the pizza that I had ordered, so I open the door. Now, since I've opened the door to a member of The Public, am I now in violation of the law?
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Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#4re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:21am
No, I don't think so. Homes are more complicated than places of business. Especially in this case, where the pizza guy isn't a cop with a warrant.
I should leave this to brdlwyr until I actually go to law school, though. If I go to law school.
Updated On: 3/23/06 at 11:21 AM
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#5re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:24amBut if I come to the door in my pajamas AND drunk, it's considered solicitation, right? I just want to get things straight before this weekend's marathon or drinking in and ordering out.
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#6re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:26amPlum - they're circling the whole 'private home' designation - some smoking bans here include private balconies if they are near public areas.
#7re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:26amOh no! What's to become of Jenna and Barbara?
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#8re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:26am
Are you in Texas? Are you in a bar?
I didn't think so.
Listen, a cop can't come to arrest you in your house without a warrant. You think they're going to wake up a judge for a public drunkeness charge for...someone who's in their house? BS. This doesn't apply to your situation at all.
#9re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:26amno getting drunk in a bar in texas? kind of an oxymoron.....
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#10re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:29am
So the next time I'm in Texas, where should I go to get drunk? 
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#11re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:31amArizona Peach...
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SorryGrateful
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#12re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:33am
I was joking, Plum. I don't live in Texas, although I do live in a bar. 
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#14re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 12:00pmI just hope the thirty people who got arrested (and the owners of the bars they were arrested in) get good lawyers and fight this. There's no way this could hold up in a court, but ALLOWING it to happen would just open the door to all kinds of violations of our rights.
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#15re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 12:04pm
I've been in bars where I wish some people would be arrested for being too obnoxious and loud, but just for BEING DRUNK. Come on.
First you can't smoke, and now you can't drink?
I might as well STAY HOME. (Alcohol is cheaper anyway.)
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#16re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 12:33pmWhat happens to the bartenders who over-served these people in the first place?
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#17re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 1:06pm
"Listen, a cop can't come to arrest you in your house without a warrant."
yet.
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#18re: Texas- No Getting Drunk In A Bar
Posted: 3/23/06 at 1:12pm
I was listening to the news earlier this morning. A cop was called to a domestic disturbance 911 call earlier the other morning, in which the wife (and victim) said that her husband was abusing her and had cocaine in the house.
The cops came, without a warrant (duh). The man told them to go away, but they arrest him anyway.
I had to leave the room, but when I came back, I heard the end of it.
Since the cops didn't have a warrant, the man was released. The Supreme Court said that a cop MUST have a warrant to enter a home and arrest someone. If a cop is at your doorstep, wanting to come in, and someone (even the abuser) says "No", even if it is a domestic disturbance case, they cannot come in.
If I'm not going to get helped, why would I trust 911?
Crazy huh.
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