just give it all back to mexico with a note attached: "not worth the trouble, and most of you live here anyway. enjoy! regards, USA."

 

Funny im the only one that supports this. Its rediculous how out of control drunk driving is . I can promise you i see 3-5 in folsom alone while driving my truck every night. Luckly i've only witnessed one car accident from a drunk. This was on sunrise, where drunks seem to not be.... lack of bars mabie? All the bars are on old auburn in Citrus Heights.......

In Arizona it was 10x worse.

 

What's even funnier is that drunk drivers don't necessarily drink at bars. Typically, a bar gets a bit too expensive for your chronic alcoholic/drunk driver.

I'm all for busting drunk drivers, but it's like selling people cigarettes, and arresting them for smoking. Or pulling people over for speeding on the drag strip. PEOPLE GO TO BARS TO GET DRUNK. It does not mean that they are going to go drive afterwards. What the Texas LE is doing, is what is known as abuse of power. The law is in place to maintain order, but as soon as they start breathlyzing people in the bar, they've crossed the line.

Are you even old enough to drink?

 

im 24 going 25 this year... and you make a good point

 

Or maybe use the age old "designated driver", what if they live near the bar and walked or maybe they're meeting a friend that's taking them home. Thats outrageous but Texas (of all places) has been that way forever that I've known. I know before this bars would hand out tickets and once you filled your ticket you couldn't drink anymore. The thing only had like 6 drinks on it to begin with.

 

good idea?

drunk driving = bad
arresting people in bars = stupidest way ever to try to stop drunk driving

the only thing this is going to do is make people stop drinking at bars.

its just like the pulling over modded looking cars to stop street racing deal.....its trying to do something to increase safety on teh road, but its being done in completely the wrong way

 

If you read the article, they weren't specifically targeting drunk drivers with his stuff. It's just one of the dumb things drunk people do that they mention as part of their reasons. I'm beginning to come over to seeing this as a pretty minor issue myself. When you think about what public drunkenness laws are there for, it still makes sense. If you get drunk and make a beligirent *** of yourself in a bar, you are guilty of being drunk in public.

 

A lot of Texans are very anti-alcohol. Entire counties are dry and many want to bring back prohibition. Idiots.

 

Fixed.

 

I believe that these are two completely different entities, the bar being private, that could help the defendant get the charges dropped.

 

Using that reasoning, I can go to a bar and start a fight, and I'll not be prosecuted if I'm drunk? Negative ghostrider. No different than being disruptive in any other public place, alcohol being served or not.

 

It's just the same as being able to drink and get drunk at your house, but you're still not allowed to start a fight with your wife or friend. I wouldn't see that arguement holding up very well.

 

That jsut goes back to this statement:
Those people very likely were not arrested for "being drunk", they were probably arrested for acting like idiots. Two different things.

 

This is true. If they're arresting the people that are so drunk that they're falling all over the place in the bar and ruining people's nights then I'm all for this "sting".