Eyes of Texas

Seemed like the Eyes of TEXAS were everywhere recently and it was legal. (I'm not talking about dominating in every collegiate sport in existence..ex:  football, basketball, baseball...) The MAN could even arrest you for being intoxicated inside a legal drinking establishment. Of all the places to be other than your home that you thought was a safe haven for drinking...even it was taken away a few months ago.

Started in Dallas a few months ago, police in that area used the new law, entered bars and arrested over 200 patrons (2,200 is the latest total state wide) for being drunk in public. Inside the bar! No longer is it safe to drink in a bar, so it seems. What's next? Can't drink in your parked car?

The outcry has been deafening. After hearing about the new law, one buck-eye hick in Ohio that has a trip planned to Texas soon uttered, "Wayull, I s'pose I'll hafta jus' stay in mah HOtel room and drink! Mah daddy al'as sed, 'Son, drinkin' is all we got, 'ceptin' tha trailer home, NASCAR, and 3 pick-up truck beds in the yard we use for swimmin' pools...and we can get more of those, but we caint lose the drink! Don't let nobody take your drinkin' away!'

From Zippo to Lippo, Dash to Mash, to Baboon, beotchin' was extreme. Some fell to the pressure of a possible arrest and cancelled. Speaking of beotchin', t h e y have nothing to worry about! Wimmen never get arrested, especially for drinking too much. Hell, that's the whole entire damn idea! Get'em drunk! Thats why bars exist, hell that's why booze was invented in the first place!  To "Get." To either get a woman or for-get one! So if she gets drunk..."Cheers!" But i suppose that's off topic, forgive me!

So it is with great pleasure and pride that I announce this. They're backing off!
We fought the law and....we won!

"The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said Wednesday it has suspended a crackdown on public intoxication after a public outcry over the program that sends undercover officers into drinking establishments."

And since the criteria for being arrest is thus;

"Participating officers are instructed to a look for a collection of behaviors, including stumbling, an inability to stand or being inappropriately loud." ,

We have nothing to worry about!

Comments

[Omnibus Driver]

And it's a damn good thing, 'cause I'm packing my lampshade...

[Jim - PRS]

Arresting someone for being drunk in a bar is kinda like arresting someone for pissing in a men's room.

[Eric]

... hot damn...

[Dash]

I wouldn't worry about it anyway. I've heard that these bloggers aren't very loud and obnoxious when they get together. In fact, most of them rarely even drink at all.

[El Capitan]

(Channeling Ron White here...)

I was NOT drunk in public! I was drunk in a BAR!! They THREW me into PUBLIC!!!

Hehehe. Damn shame about Catfish bailing. More booze for me, I s'pose.

[Eric]

... indeed, Dash... the more I drink, the more quiet I become... just ask anyone...

[Liberty]

Yup, another classic example that blogging and commenting means something.

[livey]

That was the funniest post I've read in a long time!
But
I don't drink alcohol.