The authorities in Texas have been rounding up drunks like so many cattle. And these people are not even driving.
Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday.
The first sting operation was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication, said the commission's Carolyn Beck.
Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkeness, Beck said.
I applaud this heavy-handed jack-bootedness. If I have to sit home and drink Sierra Mist when watching American Idol, others shouldn't be able to go out in public and get loaded.
Of course, the law should be rescinded come Easter when I start back on the hootch once again, but...
We feel that the only way we're going to get at the drunk driving problem and the problem of people hurting each other while drunk is by crackdowns like this," she said.
"There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they're intoxicated, other than get behind the wheel of a car," Beck said. "People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss."
That must be a huge problem down in Texas. Why it must happen 2-3 times a decade I'm sure.
UPDATE: The original Drunk In Public Comedian Ron White on his arrest outside a NYC bar:
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! I was drunk in a bar! They, threw me into public-KA! I don't want to be drunk in public! I wanna be drunk in a bar, which is perfectly legal! Arrest them!" He didn't arrest them, instead he had me do a field sobriety check, where you stand on one foot, raise the other foot six inches off the ground, and count to thirty. I made it to "woo!"
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