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igotthisguitar

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject: Texas arresting people in bars ... for being drunk |
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Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk
Wed Mar 22, 6:05 PM ET
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - 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 drunkenness, Beck said.
The goal, she said, was to detain drunks before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car.
"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. |
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Pyongshin Sangja

Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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What about being in the White House?
Does that exempt you from these laws? |
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igotthisguitar

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
What about being in the White House?
Does that exempt you from these laws? |
IN the "WHITE" House one is only exepted if it's cocaine  |
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canuckistan Mod Team


Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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In Kansas and Missouri you can get fingerprinted when stopped on the highway by the police!
Uncivil liberties? |
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igotthisguitar

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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canuckistan wrote: |
In Kansas and Missouri you can get fingerprinted when stopped on the highway by the police!
Uncivil liberties? |
C'mon ...
This sort of blatant encroachment is a further "IN YOUR FACE" example of the Orwellian police state
Wackenhut et al New World Order agenda.
How can you even question this?
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Manner of Speaking

Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cubsfan/conspiracy.html |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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I don't quite get the point of this article/thread. When someone asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, he said, "Because that's where the money is." If you want to arrest a drunk, isn't the obvious place to start looking in a bar? |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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"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. |
2 words, two letters
smoke the m-j |
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Nowhere Man

Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:17 am Post subject: ... |
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I don't quite get the point of this article/thread. When someone asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, he said, "Because that's where the money is." If you want to arrest a drunk, isn't the obvious place to start looking in a bar? |
You're being facetious, right? |
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Leslie Cheswyck

Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: |
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Texas hold 'em  |
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ddeubel

Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't laughed so much in a long time!!!!!!!!! This is damn hilarious.
Next we'll have funeral directors knocking off those they deem "unsociable" or "deadbeat".
This is hilarious and gets to the heart of the matter. America is in part -- a big religious, bigoted, flacid (as in without energy), armed, police state....And they want to tell the world how to live..............
It's Friday, glad I can go somewhere and get drunk! Georgie, put me on your list, as one of the bad guys.........
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igotthisguitar

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:07 am Post subject: Re: ... |
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Nowhere Man wrote: |
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I don't quite get the point of this article/thread. When someone asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, he said, "Because that's where the money is." If you want to arrest a drunk, isn't the obvious place to start looking in a bar? |
You're being facetious, right? |
Here's a novel concept for dim-wit agitator types like Ya-ta ...
Finding drunks in a bar -- what are the chances?
http://drunksinabar.notlong.com
ddeubel wrote: |
Next we'll have funeral directors knocking off those they deem "unsociable" or "deadbeat". |
Hmmmm ... what else will they come up with next?
Arrested in public washrooms for MAKING A STINK.
Detained in restaurants ... for swallowing.
Taken away at a sporting event ... for cheering ...
Pounched on during a University seminar ... for THINKING ...
DOUBLE-PLUS-GOOD.
ddeubel wrote: |
This is hilarious and gets to the heart of the matter. America is in part -- a big religious, bigoted, flacid (as in without energy), armed, police state....And they want to tell the world how to live........
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Yah, one can't help but wonder what THINK TANK of social engineers came up with this one. |
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cwemory

Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Location: Gunpo, Korea
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:14 am Post subject: |
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You forgot one:
Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk is like Israel arresting people in Palestine for being Arab. |
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The Man known as The Man

Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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cwemory wrote: |
You forgot one:
Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk is like Israel arresting people in Palestine for being Arab. |
You are dumb |
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ddeubel

Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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cwemory wrote:
You forgot one:
Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk is like Israel arresting people in Palestine for being Arab.
You are dumb |
I liked that analogy. VERY appropriate to anyone with intelligence. And of course, intelligent people don't call others dumb -- they make it more exact and poetic. You are a few bulbs short of a christmas tree. Next time engage in dialogue rather than monkey squealing, please!!!
DD
Arresting people in bars for being drunk (in Texas) is like arresting Koreans in restaurants for ordering rice. |
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