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?
"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?"
If that's the case I'd like to see someone request a ride along with a cop and (pcchhhht!) open a can of beer right there in the passenger seat - "OK, Let's do this!"
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.
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 ...