Bar Sweep Sparks Controversy (Drunk People Arrested in Bars!!)

NBC5i.com ^ | March 23, 2006

[cbkaty]

Bigs deserves a pat on the back for conversation stimulation....but that's all....

[Hatteras]

"...a plastic sleeve that would slip over a beer can..."

We used to have a whole bunch of them. Some were Pepsi... actually they said "Popsi" and some were Mountoin Dew. We would individually wrap a case of beer and throw them all in a cooler to take into concerts or to the beach.

[CJ Wolf]

My opinion is bigs needs zot. We zot all types of people with different and dangerous beliefs. He is attacking my right to get drunk on my boat while at anchor. I have no sympathy for that.

[Dianna]

What you do in your own home booze wise is up to you if you are an adult.

Now, hold on one second! What about people who have children in their home? Their children might see them drunk, which is certainly a bad example, and at any moment that child might slip and fall or something and need a ride to the ER.

Nope, no drinking at home either!

[cbkaty]

There are bars in Texas that the police would never visit....unless they were searching for a murderer and had SWAT backup.... Busting a well-dressed businessman in the local Holiday Inn takes "guts"..... Wonder when these cowboys will come in blasting away with tasers?/sarcasm...

[george wythe]

You have no right what so ever to be plastered/drunk in public. Not in a moving car, behind the wheel, walking in the park, or down the street on your anchored boat, sitting on a bench, or any other location; period.

I lived on a boat for a few months, so the boat was my home.

[Gabz]

I don't doubt that. I've never been to Texas, but my husband used to live there and I have heard some stories about those type places!!!!

[dread78645]

Isn't Texas the state where until recently (hell may still be) you could ride around in a car with an open container as long as you weren't the driver?

Yep. That changed in 2001.
Before that, an open container was hunky-dory as long as the driver wasn't observed by the officer to be drinking from it. But then, not too many years ago, say around 1990, there wasn't any such thing as 'open container' in Texas ...

[Ghengis]

Wrong again!!!

You have no right what so ever to be plastered/drunk in public. Not in a moving car, behind the wheel, walking in the park, or down the street on your anchored boat, sitting on a bench, or any other location; period.

What you do in your own home booze wise is up to you if you are an adult.

In truth, your attitude is one of the reasons that there are 10s of thousands of people killed by boozed up drivers in this country every year.

Spoken like someone who, as a teenager, got her drunk and still didn't get any.

[cbkaty]

I don't doubt that. I've never been to Texas, but my husband used to live there and I have heard some stories about those type places!!!!

I am a native Texan... When a police department starts crap like this, it is usually because the chief was hired from another country errrr state....

[dread78645]

NAw, Kinky Friedman got spotted drinking a Guiness while riding in a car in a parade on St. Patrick's day, and they tried to make some hay out of his being a scofflaw for breaking the Open Container law. His comment? Lighten up, it's St. Patrick's day.

I'm getting to like Kinky even more ...

[SouthernFreebird]

Texas...? You'd think they would be busy rounding up all those who are breaking the law by being here illegally!

[rock58seg]

Time for the local citizens to call the police dept. and report any drunken police in the bars where they hangout.

[Gabz]

Didn't a former NYC Police Chief relocate there sometime back and take over one of your PDs and a huge fuster cluck ensue? (I come from 3 generations of NYPD and so have no qualms about finding fault with them when they deserve it)

[Ghengis]

NAw, Kinky Friedman got spotted drinking a Guiness while riding in a car in a parade on St. Patrick's day, and they tried to make some hay out of his being a scofflaw for breaking the Open Container law. His comment? Lighten up, it's St. Patrick's day.

Kinky was right.

[rock58seg]

Not so many years ago, there was no such thing as a container in over half the counties of Texas, And in the other half you couldn't buy a "mixed" drink either.

[rock58seg]

Not so many years ago, there was no such thing as a container in over half the counties of Texas, And in the other half you couldn't buy a "mixed" drink either.

[cbkaty]

Didn't a former NYC Police Chief relocate there sometime back and take over one of your PDs and a huge fuster cluck ensue? (I come from 3 generations of NYPD and so have no qualms about finding fault with them when they deserve it)

Yes, Lee. P. Brown. (the periods were utilized by his "professional" staff in marketing mail-outs to enhance his reelection prospects...most of his supporters never noticed...)

His handle was, "Out-ta-Town Leroy Brown" He visited Africa, on the public dole, as a Houston area economic effort.....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[American_Centurion]

It could be that they did so reluctantly. But they should have flat out refused to assist them, or forced TABC to get an order from a state judge.

As it went down the citizens had rights trampled on, if you assist in trampling rights, you are no different than the German troops who were just following orders. They are no more than instruments of tyranny.

[Gabz]

LOL!!!!!

I thought it was Houston, but wasn't 100% sure and since my husband isn't home, I couldn't ask him to refresh my memory.