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Posted: 9/18/2017 6:44:07 PM EDT
Specifically, laws that prohibit you from, say, drinking a beer in the parking lot of a grocery store or something. I was thinking about it earlier, as I was drinking a beer, and had to walk down the street (about six houses) to tell my kids to come home from their friend's house and do homework and such. I thought about taking my beer with me, but figured there was a small risk a cop might drive past and bother me about it. It seems pretty stupid that I have to worry about such a thing.
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It's good they exist so that idiots in the city bar hopping will at least keep the sloppiness mostly inside the establishments.
It's bad they exist for reasons like yours, one guy drinking one beer and having to walk down the sidewalk to the neighbors. You probably could technically have avoided it by just walking through the neighbors front lawns (private property) instead of taking the sidewalk. |
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Heck I want to know why I can't buy a 12pack on my way home when I get off work at 4AM
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I have no problem walking down the block in my neighborhood with a beer. Do it fairly often when the neighbors down the street have a get together.
None of my town cops are gonna harass someone walking to a neighbors house with a beer. Now if I was shirtless and stumbling it might be different. |
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You can drink anything else in public, why not beer?
Also, having been a late swing shift worker at one time, I too wonder why beer at 4am cannot be had. |
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If you decide to bring your beer along, good manners dictate you should show up with one for the kid's friend's dad too.
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I have no problem walking down the block in my neighborhood with a beer. Do it fairly often when the neighbors down the street have a get together. None of my town cops are gonna harass someone walking to a neighbors house with a beer. Now if I was shirtless and stumbling it might be different. View Quote |
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It's good they exist so that idiots in the city bar hopping will at least keep the sloppiness mostly inside the establishments. It's bad they exist for reasons like yours, one guy drinking one beer and having to walk down the sidewalk to the neighbors. You probably could technically have avoided it by just walking through the neighbors front lawns (private property) instead of taking the sidewalk. View Quote |
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Hell, I miss the laws in Germany that allowed me to pound 40s on the train and keep a 12 pack with me if my wife was driving the car.
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Stupid laws, and not enforced if you are polite and not sloppy, at least in my experience.
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Nope.
A guy that worked for me was sitting in his truck, in a Very remote dump, watching the bears eat the trash. His truck was off and he had an open beer and was busted for the dreaded "open container". Total BS. Just more .gov interference in our lives. |
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Is that every night? What hours can they not sell alcohol? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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We would not have those laws if it wasn't for all of the drunk drivers.
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I would like to know why during a long summer road trip, I can't have a cold beer on the drive as a passenger.
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Open container laws suck cock by choice. As long as you can pass a breathalyzer, who fuck'n cares? Nanny State Socialists. That's who.
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I don't drink all that often, but yeah... if I found it inconvenient, I'd pour it into a cup. Boom, problem solved.
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No, but it doesn't really twitch my give-a-fuck-o-meter all that much. I'm not going to make it my mission in life to correct it, because it's just not worth the effort.
It's kind of like blue laws prohibiting the purchase of booze on Sunday. If it's put to a vote, I'll vote to allow it. But as a practical matter, I'm really not that inconvenienced by it. |
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Open container laws are shit.
What's the use of having sons, if not to legally drink on the way to the lake (by making one of them drive). |
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Hell, I miss the laws in Germany that allowed me to pound 40s on the train and keep a 12 pack with me if my wife was driving the car. View Quote Hell Missouri even has a state law banning public intoxication laws. |
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In Mississippi, you can drive with a drink in your hand, as long as you are under .08
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In most states you can be charged for having an open container depending on the LEO.
The container needs to be in the vehicle. As far as having a open container at a store supplying alcohol its to protect the store owner and the employees. Mort stores here have signs indicating the said laws. I have seen assholes open beer cans while standing in line. If the NH Alcohol inspector had been there, the store would have lost their license. The cashier would have been fined by the state for not reporting the event. Here in NH. They set up the cashiers by having underage buyer use false IDs made by the state to entrap the cashier. I had a favorite cashier who everybody liked get fucked over by the state. She lost her job. Charged and fined by the state because of the false ID made by the State. The know that the cashiers dont have the money to get a lawyer to fight this entrapment policy. |
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They are the product of an impossible to inforce law. MAD wanted to make it illegal to drink and drive (even if you were not intoxicated). Almost impossible for the police to actually witness a drink. So now an open container = drinking. So now it is also illegal to drink and ride
No, I think they are bullshit. Enforce reckless driving, add additional penalties if alcholol is involved. Don't make everything associated with your sin illegal. --- Pretty sure it is state law in Texas. Cities have Exposed container laws, hence everything must be bagged. Like a paper bag stops a bum from drinking. |
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Nope. But I'm a responsible adult. There are plenty of assholes out there that aren't. That, coupled with the mental illness known as liberalism, is why we can't have nice things.
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So you support eliminating laws preventing guys from walking down the street with no pants on and whacking their willie because FREEDOM???? Hmmm.....
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I'm not a fan of such laws, but I had to laugh at a segment of COPS I saw one time. The police and camera crew were on a call, standing in the street in front of a house talking with a bunch of people. All of a sudden, a shirtless guy with a beard and a mullet, completely unconnected to the original incident, comes strolling by holding a beer. One of the cops sees him and places him under arrest . Imagine that, drinking a beer one afternoon, see a bunch of cops at your neighbors' house, decide to go see what's going on, end up arrested .
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What's the difference between drinking on the porch of the bar or walking down the sidewalk?
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I have no problem walking down the block in my neighborhood with a beer. Do it fairly often when the neighbors down the street have a get together. None of my town cops are gonna harass someone walking to a neighbors house with a beer. Now if I was shirtless and stumbling it might be different. View Quote |
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No , but it's a non issue here outside of a vehicle or on a horse.
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No, I do not.
That said, it isn't hard to get around in TX. 1. put beer in stealth coozie 2. have locking console or some other locking box nearby to put it in. There. Problem solved. Always enjoy freedom responsibly. |
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Not a problem where I live, Georgia is one of the half-dozen states without an "open container in public law". Title 40 (OCGA 40-6-253) only applies to motor vehicles and traffic. On the other hand, there is no statewide preemption of local laws as there is with knives and firearms.
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So you support eliminating laws preventing guys from walking down the street with no pants on and whacking their willie because FREEDOM???? Hmmm..... View Quote |
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No. Why would I?
Senseless laws. I can be stone sober walking down the street drinking hold a beer, and in violation of the law. Or, leave the bar completely shitfaced without a beer in my hand and be completely legal. Zero. Fucking. Sense. Zero. |
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