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Public intoxication stings catch 2,200 in Texas bars
chron.com ^ | 3/23/06 | Anne Marie Kilday

Posted on 03/23/2006 8:18:08 AM PST by takenoprisoner

More than 2,200 people have been arrested in Texas bars in the six months since the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission announced a crackdown on public intoxication, primarily targeting bars.

The arrests included people who were drunk in bars, who sold alcohol to a drunk person, or a drunk employee on the premises of a bar or restaurant with a license to sell alcohol, said Carolyn Beck, a spokeswoman for the TABC.

The commission has been responsible for enforcing the state's alcoholic beverage code for the past 70 years. In August, 2005, the agency announced it was beginning a crackdown on public intoxication, using both undercover and open operations.

The agency has used undercover agents before, Beck said. In a recent operation, agents infiltrated 36 bars in a Dallas suburb and arrested 30 people for public intoxication.

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To: takenoprisoner

If you want to get stumbling drunk, do it at home. Why is that too much for you?


41 posted on 03/23/2006 8:41:53 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: XR7
But they were drunk in public. IT'S THE LAW.

The law is more than that. They have to be a danger to themselves or someone else as well to be arrested in Texas. Or at least that's what the statute says.

42 posted on 03/23/2006 8:42:08 AM PST by dirtboy (I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)
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To: Gabz; SheLion; freepatriot32

Ping


43 posted on 03/23/2006 8:42:40 AM PST by fanfan ( "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" - Ayn Rand)
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To: takenoprisoner
The arrests included people who were drunk in bars, who sold alcohol to a drunk person, or a drunk employee on the premises of a bar or restaurant with a license to sell alcohol, said Carolyn Beck, a spokeswoman for the TABC.

I'll bet they were all strip clubs. That way they could bust the girls, for drinking all their shift with the customers. I don't know this from personal experience you understand, but that's what I've heard...

44 posted on 03/23/2006 8:43:48 AM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: Justanobody
They didn't get enough of them!

We have a FReeper laying in a Texas hospital fighting for his life as I type this.

He was hit by a drunk driver yesterday as he stood waiting to cross the street.

I have a coworker whose cousin was shot and killed a few years back. Because of that incident, my coworker now believes that all guns should be banned throughout the US.

Emotional opinions stemming from tragedies tend to be some of the least valuable.

45 posted on 03/23/2006 8:43:49 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: massgopguy

No breathalyzer needed for PI charge, just the opinion of the arresting officer.


46 posted on 03/23/2006 8:44:48 AM PST by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: takenoprisoner
More than 2,200 people have been arrested in Texas bars

Can you say class action suit?

47 posted on 03/23/2006 8:44:58 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Islam's true face: http://makeashorterlink.com/?J169127BC)
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To: dirtboy

Furthermore, it's not unheard of for people to drive to a bar and then get a cab home after having too much to drink. There is NO defense of what those bastards did in Texas.


48 posted on 03/23/2006 8:45:10 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: eastforker
Well, by your rational maybe we should just shut all the bars down, is that what you would like to see?

Isn't that pretty much where we are already? You can't smoke in a bar and now you can't drink in a bar without worrying if you have too much (based on a comparatively subjective measurement designed to generate revenue). What's the point?

Better to stay home and drink and smoke until they make their way there too (in about what, a year or two?)

49 posted on 03/23/2006 8:45:52 AM PST by ProfoundMan (At what point does this crap become sedition?)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
If you want to get stumbling drunk, do it at home. Why is that too much for you?

Freedom trumps your puritanical sensibilities. Why is that too much for you?

50 posted on 03/23/2006 8:47:36 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: Texas Mom

What if they have a designated driver? Or if they get so drunk, they decide to walk home? I am suprised you're for this when it is happening in your state.


51 posted on 03/23/2006 8:48:47 AM PST by steel_resolve (An intolerant culture will seek to impose it's will on the tolerant one.)
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To: takenoprisoner; All
See other responses at yesterday's thread. One thing I heard on the morning show on KLBJ this AM, by the laws in Texas, the TABC can arrest anyone for "Public Intoxication". Bars at hotels are considered "Public places". IMHO, that is a stupid law, and needs to be changed.

Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk

Here is my reply to stacytec last night

52 posted on 03/23/2006 8:49:39 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Don't mess with Texas.)
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To: takenoprisoner

All 2200 of these people should plead "not guilty" and demand a jury trial. The burden upon the court system would be astronomical in both time and money. Add in the overtime costs for all of the arresting LEO's to testify at trial, and you can bet that the elected politicans will start to feel the heat, particular when the well-connected or their spouses or progeny are caught in a sting. In a matter of weeks, the judges will start tossing cases with the consent of the prosecuting attorney, politicians will give the SLA an earful for wasting tax dollars, and the SLA wil go back to doing what it does best, which is nothing.


53 posted on 03/23/2006 8:49:40 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: garyhope
Freedom is much more important than safety. I'll take my chances with freedom.

That presumes that there is anywhere left to go to find such freedom. Is there anywhere left?? I travel a lot, and I'd say we are rapidly running out of places... nearly everywhere there are thousands of laws in effect that curtail freedom, and now they have the budgets to enforce every technical violation, often without a right to a trial.

54 posted on 03/23/2006 8:50:09 AM PST by LambSlave (The truth will set you free)
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To: takenoprisoner
I can only think of that Ron White bit.

"Officer, I was drunk in a bar... I was THROWN into PUB-lick"
55 posted on 03/23/2006 8:50:13 AM PST by fhlh (Polls are for Strippers.)
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To: takenoprisoner
It's horrible to think that people are drinking and getting drunk at bars. This must be stopped. I propose banning alcohol and cigarettes in all bars. We'll still be able to tax the sale of them, of course. But people will have to stay home.

Next we'll ban reading in libraries. Can't have all that eye strain going on. We'll still tax people to fund the libraries and you'll still be able to check a book out. But no reading in the libraries.

What else can we work on? How about you can't express a political opinion on a Blog? Yeah. That'd be perfect.
56 posted on 03/23/2006 8:50:36 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: massgopguy
How do the police know for a fact that they are drunk? Are they coercing people to take a breathalizer? Are people who are not driving threatened with loss of liscense if they don't submit to a breathalizer?

Actually I was told by someone that got busted in the scam that more than 3 or more beers was suppose to be the way they knew. Of course, I was on beer 5 or 6 when I was told this so I may not remember the details correctly.

57 posted on 03/23/2006 8:51:01 AM PST by Hang'emAll (WE WILL NOT DISARM!!!)
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To: massgopguy

excellent point. I would refuse, let them arrest me and then hire a lawyer.


58 posted on 03/23/2006 8:51:28 AM PST by steel_resolve (An intolerant culture will seek to impose it's will on the tolerant one.)
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To: massgopguy

Good point!


59 posted on 03/23/2006 8:51:52 AM PST by Millee (Don't make me get out my voodoo doll out!)
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To: XR7

Heard this on a local radio show this AM.
Police somewhere in VA would wait outside a watering hole. People in their cups were seen leaving the bar and entering taxis for the ride home. The police would follow the cab. When they got out of the cabs to walk to their homes, they were cited for public intoxication.


60 posted on 03/23/2006 8:52:04 AM PST by Roccus
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