[dirtboy]

Are you going to sleep in the bar or drive home? Get them in the bar before they head home.

They busted people in a hotel bar that were staying in the hotel, so it's about more than stopping drunk drivers. And the Texas statute for public intoxication says the person has to be a danger to themselves or someone else. If someone is at a bar and is part of a group with a designated driver, or is going to take a cab home, and is not trying to start a fight or is falling down drunk, these arrests exceed the state's statutory authority.

[Junior_G]

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.

[Conservative Texan Mom]

How did they determine these people were intoxicated? Also, if the people were staying at the hotel, then how did they present a danger? I'm for upholding the law, but this seems to be stretching it. I imagine this is going to get dismissed in court and embarrass the heck out of the police department.