Is booze ban a good move? (Town drunk opposes open container law)

Modesto Bee ^ | 7.7.03 | CHRIS TOGNERI

[mhking]

It wasn't yet noon, and Hank Denny had almost finished drinking a 40-ounce bottle of King Cobra malt liquor.

Denny, 53, was drinking with his friends at Tuolumne River Regional Park in Modesto. He says he drinks here, and in other parks around the city, often.

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"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

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[elbucko]

City leaders, too, were split on the issue at the City Council meeting Tuesday. Vice Mayor Bruce Frohman supported the citywide ban,....

Go ahead, Modesto, turn yourself into another "City of no Fun", as has Torrance. Since the enforcement of "vagrancy" laws has been rendered un-constitutional, the only choice left is to become like "Stepford". It ain't' pretty.

[humblegunner]

That guy looks pretty clean to be the town drunk.
I'd question his credentials, he looks like a part-timer to me.

[weegee]

"Ohhhh now, Andy.... I'm a tax paying citizen like everybody else. I pay my alcohol taxes, don' I < hic >???"

[Catspaw]

"I like it," he said, clutching his bottle. "I should be in church right now, but what the hell? I'm an alcoholic. I'm the town drunk."

It's good to be on the career track of one's choice.

[weegee]

"I should be in church right now, but what the hell? I'm an alcoholic. I'm the town drunk."

Is this an elected office? I'd think that the Kennedys would have a lock on it in some communities.

What about the village idiot or local pervert?

Roger Clinton and Bubba could advise some candidates...

[weegee]

If the ban is enacted, only those who obtain a special city permit or attend an exempted event will be allowed to drink alcohol.

Will all other drinkers of alcohol be given a waiver on their alcohol taxes?

They're turning the parks into speakeasies, only the connected or "right people" will be able to drink there.

[thrcanbonly1]

Its almost noon and he hasn't finished one beer! I'm surprised he hasn't got training wheels on that 40.

[freebilly]

Back at the Tuolumne River Regional Park on Sunday, the group of drinkers around Hank Denny was getting larger as he moved onto his second bottle of King Cobra

Oddly enough, I side with this jerkoff. I believe that everyone should be free to drink themselves to death in front of the entire world if that's what they're so ignorantly inclined to do.

I've got a park across the street from my home in Santa Rosa. The bums come, they drink, they sleep, they leave. Fine. But if one of them harms one of my kids there will be a bludgeoning death for the police to investigate....

[Little Bill]

Doesn't look like a Mass drunk to me, they must have a better class of drunk in Kali.

[SamAdams76]

Once again, the liberals wring their hands and make up new laws against objects that exempt individual responsibility. Just like they do with guns. Blame the gun and not the individual.

Well I think alcohol should be allowed. As for the drunks, they should be arrested and carted off to the drunk tank. There are already laws in place for public drunkenness. Let's enforce those laws before we make up new laws that infringe upon the freedoms of everybody else.

[Xenalyte]

"I like it," he said, clutching his bottle. "I should be in church right now, but what the hell? I'm an alcoholic. I'm the town drunk."

Wow. Considering that I was hoisting a Michelob Ultra before noon on Sunday . . . nah, I couldn't be the town drunk in Sargent, Texas. Too much competition.

[Dont Mention the War]

Wow. Considering that I was hoisting a Michelob Ultra before noon on Sunday . . . nah, I couldn't be the town drunk in Sargent, Texas. Too much competition.

As long as you're hoisting Michelob anything, I don't think you qualify as a legitimate drunk. I mean, come on, MICHELOB?

[Xenalyte]

You have a VERY valid point. I have yet to consume enough Mich Ultra to even catch a buzz. I get full first. But like I said, with beer salt it's good . . . although too much salt makes my rings fit funny.

[Senator Pardek]

He's obviously not homeless - has this moron ever heard of "drinking at home"?

[Dont Mention the War]

But like I said, with beer salt it's good . . . although too much salt makes my rings fit funny.

There are so many ways to interpret this sentence ... and most of them are so tasteless...

(Rather like the beer.)

[xm177e2]

Although the city's police and parks departments had asked that alcohol be banned only at 57 neighborhood parks -- many of them near schools -- the council decided on the blanket ban for fear that drinkers would flock to the exempted parks.

They couldn't have given it a chance, taken a risk, and then revised the law later if it didn't work out? That would be asking too much? What a bunch of Soviets.

[vin-one]

xena, I am ashamed of you Ultra.

old joke from the other day that I love,
what does Mich Ultra, and making love in a canoe have in common


they are both f---ing near water.....

If you are going to drink light might as well pay the extra four bucks a twelve and get Amstel Light.
almost taste's like real beer