I'll rent you out for $5,000 a night - and take 50%.
Here are your first four customers.
Ready?
Posted on 07/08/2005 10:18:07 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher
Eric Laverriere was celebrating last New Year's Eve at a friend's house in Waltham when police broke up the party. They took him into protective custody and kept him locked in a cell for nine hours until the effects of a night of beer drinking wore off.
In what legal experts believe to be a first-of-its-kind legal challenge, Laverriere filed suit against the Waltham Police Department in US District Court in Boston, contending that he has a constitutional right to get drunk on private property ''so long as he causes no public disturbance."
Laverriere, a 25-year-old computer systems specialist from Portland, Maine, argues that the Massachusetts Protective Custody Law is intended to target public drunkenness and that Waltham police overstepped their bounds when they used it to seize him from a private residence.
''One thing people should be able to do is drink in their own house," Laverriere said in a phone interview yesterday. ''That's the beauty of the land of the free."
The state's Protective Custody Law, enacted in 1971, replaced a law dating back to Colonial times that made public drunkenness a crime, subject to arrest, conviction, and a criminal record. The law, which does not explicitly say whether it applies to those in public or in private, authorizes police to take incapacitated people to their homes, a treatment facility, or a police station, where they can be held against their will for up to 12 hours.
Under the law, people have to be drunk and deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. They are not charged with a crime.
Laverriere asserts in his lawsuit that he had ''a constitutional right to be drunk in private, a privacy and liberty right founded in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution."
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How can we be sure that is actually you....or which one is you?
Or you can can my word for it. After all, to you, I am just some putz on the internet.
Here are your first four customers.
Ready?
LOLOL. Good one.
Nah, I prefer to remain drunk & confused.
That first one is super creepy & it just gets worse...or better....I can't decide.
Start with Squantos.
ware doo i begin 2 comet on thes......(hic)
Early start, eh? LOL.
(Eeww...Did that land on Pissant's rented tux?)
If it's $5K per customer, let me think about it.
Though, I must say, Latesha's certainly got some bodunky-dunk going on.
LOL!
That looks like my mother on the left.
And my stepmonster on the right.
Dad married badly - TWICE.
;-)
PS... I've learned from his mistakes.
Well, uh...nevermind.
Someone was throwing BEER BOTTLES at the police cruisers and there was a guy drunk on premisis drinking beers who was the owner.
I see where there is an issue regarding the thrown beer bottles.
Put me down for a six pack of skinny, sober and stupid and I'm with ya!...;))
However, not what they arrested him for.
It's an interesting story. We don't have all the facts - but still interesting.
;-)
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