Too many cops, too little for them to do.

It’s not the nanny state, is moralist people buzy trying to tell you what’s good for yourself
see this on another sin: http://reason.com/sullum/030806.shtml

its texas home of dubya and dr phil,could anything else be expected

“People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss.”

Evolution at work.

See why I love cops so much?

Ah, Justen, but evolution is banned in Texas

It’s a pre-emptive strike. Good for potential terrorists, potential WMDs and potential drunk drivers.

So when are they going to be raiding a temperance tea room and arresting all them pink-haired grannies not walking too good before they can jump in their Cadillacs and run it into a pool?

I failed to include the smiley face in the end of #7. It was meant to be a joke, but apparently flopped. I’m not for pre-emptive strikes, but for rule of law applied to all, inluding public officials.

I am serious of the grannies though. I was really scared of those 1970′s cadillacs with pink-haired old ladies…

I would guess that this is one of those laws that busts the mexicans, not the white guys in ties comparing missle size. And, besides, you know how weird the US is about booze…drink, just don’t get drunk…at least not visibly so. I had three beers at xmas and my mother kept giving me shit about being an alcoholic.

I’ll never get used to bartenders in Helsinki who continue to serve drunks long after they can barely stand and who have been obviously drunk for days only to shove them out onto the sidewalk at closing time where they pee and vomit all the way home or until they pass out. In Finland you can drink yourself to death, but don’t even think about buying too much aspirin at once.

I suppose it’s all just how we allow ourselves to indulge in suicidal activities.

Well, if the inspectors raid a restaurant here, they too will cite/suspend/fine the bar for serving drunks/underageds. If a popular bar is suddenly closed for “putkiremontti” you can guess what had happened… The Finnish law also states that you may not serve intoxicated people… but arresting people *in* bars.. maybe outside when they’re teetering home, but I guess they let you teeter home as the tank only has so much space.

Wow, where are they in downtown? There’s one pub in the next block up from my house that has serious, walking in the traffic, sorts of drunks coming out of there every night. One night I had to watch in awe as one drunk dude stood on the curb at the corner of the intersection near the pub and proceeded to try and piss on the passing cars. I’d love to see that place get busted as it would at least give the amateurs less competition for sidewalk space.

I will agree that it’s curious that they’re arresting people inside bars but, in a state like Texas where drunk driving is a horrible problem, I suppose going to the bars that were most frequently cited as the place that last served busted drunk drivers makes a certain amount of sense.

To many lazy cops. All they have to do is wait outside for the drunk to drive off.

This is one of those “sigh and shake your head” news topics.

And in large parts of Texas you can’t buy alcohol in stores for home consumption either. Given the huge pick-ups they drive around here, I guess it is better for all of us if all of us stay sober

i miss windixie and their great assortment of liquor filled chocolates. gotta get back to fort lauderdale. been in coffee pot, nevada too long. goober san delouevre