I wish you were right, but I'm afraid you're not. I thought it was just my city, but apparently it's a statewide problem. A friend of mine who was a bartender at a small, local bar went on duty one night around 8 p.m. She went to wait on a table of what appeared to be a perfectly sober man. He ordered a beer, and she brought it to him. BAM!!! She was cited by the TABC-gestapo for something like serving a 3rd beer in an hour to a guy who had previous DWI offenses and was on some kind of probation. How was she to know?
I have to admit, it sounds as though I may be taking the wrong side here. This is beginning to sound like a Statewide crackdown on liquor establishments. I know from friends that Texas has been getting really tough on their DUIs(DWIs?) but I would think they would have the courage to do it through new legislation and not through nearly extinct public intoxication laws. Right now I have my own bones to pick with the tax bandits at Austin to get too involved with the revenuers as well. What the heck is happening to Texas? My families have been in the State since the days of the Republic but I am now in the process of trying to sell a piece of west Texas property which has value only to the county tax office. I only hope I can escape with my hide. Maybe I should open a bar on the property instead? No, can't do that, dry county. . .</sarcasm