[Dashing Dasher]

Drunks and their privacy rights.

Another case for SCOTUS!?

[Dashing Dasher]

Interesting information - or just a Silly Friday Thread.

[SoothingDave]

Eric Laverriere was celebrating last New Year's Eve at a friend's house in Waltham when police broke up the party.

I think "why the police broke up the party" would be a fact I would want to include, were I a journalist. The disposition of the partygoers would depend on this fact very much.

SD

[PaulaB]

If anyone is interested...I did check Texas Laws regarding this and here is where we stand:

1.It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
2.The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a recipe for making beer that can be used at home.
3.In Houston, Texas, beer many not be purchased after midnight on Sunday, but can be purchased anytime on Monday...which happens to begin right after midnight on Sunday! So it's illegal to buy it when its legal to buy it?
4.One needs permission from the director of parks and recreation before getting drunk in any city park.
5.It is illegal to milk another person's cow.

The last one is for anyone that gets so trashed that they wonder on to another's farm....

[unixfox]

''That's the beauty of the land of the free."

Free? We haven't been "FREE" in a long time.

This guy is only 25 years old, he doesn't know what freedoms have been lost in the last few years alone.

[najida]

This time next week I fully intend to be practicing my rights with a pitcher (or 2) of Margaritas.

If I pass out in the front yard and wake up with fire ant bites, that's my problem ;)

[Perdogg]

I think the police had no business arresting him.

[RightWhale]

he has a constitutional right to get drunk on private property ''so long as he causes no public disturbance."

Somebody called the cops. That means they were loud, and noise crossing the property line is trespass. Being on somebody else's private property without permission is worth some attention. Also, there is no such thing as private property; that is a myth. Being drunk is also damaging State property.

[F16Fighter]

Laverriere asserts in his lawsuit that he had "a constitutional right to be drunk in private..."

D@mn straight (hiccup...barf).

[bert]

I can remember parties that were not considered good unless the cops came. They were always polite, checked everything out and left with admonitions to tone it down.

They couldn't arrest but they could admonish.

H Square on 103 Chamberlain Street ...... gone but not forgotten

[A CA Guy]

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.

[tet68]

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.


Pretty extreme if you ask me, so if they take you to your
home, how do they hold you against your will for 12 hours?