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Don’t Mess with Texas Morals Police: Tavern Patrons Arrested for Intoxication

“Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said,” according to Reuters. Public intoxication is illegal in Texas, and the authorities contend that their preemptive arrests will prevent people from driving drunk or committing other offenses. HT Peaktalk. More: Mar. 31.

“Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said,” according to Reuters. Public intoxication is illegal in Texas, and the authorities contend that their preemptive arrests will prevent people from driving drunk or committing other offenses. HT Peaktalk. More: Mar. 31.

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  • Arrested for being drunk in a bar

    Ron White (’they call me tater salad‘) did a joke about this. He was arrested outside of a bar for being drunk in public after being thrown out of the bar. His argument was that he was drunk in private and thrown in public.
    Now, San A…

  • At least one cannot be arrested for being stupid in public. Not yet. I think.

  • Word is they’re also arresting people for making seditious statements about Tom Delay.

  • First it was the fight against Drunk Driving. Then, it turned into the war against Drinking and Driving (Note the difference here.)

    Now it’s a flat out war against drinking.. With the possibility you might drive period.

    It’s getting absurd now, and in general this kind of foolishness needs to stop. Some say it’s organizations like MADD that went from fulfilling the founders intent, to going so over base, the founder leaves because now, Drunk Driving is properly illiegal and now the organization is going way over into Prohibition like view points that many of us can’t stand. (That Puritan thinking coming to life again?)

    It’s insane, but it’s catching on.

    • By Tony H.

  • How long will we wait before the Texas plaintiffs’ tort bar sues the bar of allowing the plaintiff to get drunk and be arrested–humiliated–by the police?

  • Texas taverns, cont’d

    According to State Sen. John Whitmire (D-Houston), the new program to arrest intoxicated Texans in bars whether or not they show any inclination to drive (see Mar. 23) is justified because it nips in the…