Posted on 07/01/2011 8:06:34 PM PDT by DemforBush
INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana Supreme Court ruling this week is a timely, cautionary reminder for Hoosiers who plan to consume alcohol over the holiday weekend.
It is possible to be charged with public intoxication, even while in a vehicle with a designated driver.
Police had arrested an Indiana woman who was drunk in the passenger seat of a car. The Supreme Court ruled that a public intoxication charge can stand against people in a car on a public street...
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Yep.
There’s no ban on home drinking yet, but statists are loathe to back down. Why a place like Indiana, where they are cool with all manner of “risky” fireworks being sold to any comer (even from out of state), whereas neighboring Illinois which can’t countenance anything showier than a sparkler without an exhibitor’s license never arrests drunken passengers for being drunken? It’s the United States of Nonsense.
And the more is that the legislature took a statist attitude and drafted a broad law.
Chicago would like to invite all Indianans who like bars to visit with their designated driver. See, Illinois is good for something.
Sorry, now I get it, bars will have to make room for drunk cots for anyone over the limit..ride or not. smh...or only serve soda that way they’re completely off the hook (and out of business)
This is just another example of the traditional, nuclear family disappearing from America. People just don’t stay home and get drunk anymore.
post 26 was meant for you..
Well, IMO, we shoulda been minding the store and not letting the truly stupid people have the run of the place while we were out having fun.
People who are attempting to avoid committing a crime (or worse) are still a target, specifically because they are putting into effect a practice that law enforcement recommends. I’m getting a headache. Don’t these people have anything better better to do?
The court has a case in mind for this. I’m thinking cab drivers.
It’s also a RINO problem. The 2010 influx of Republicans into state legislatures in revolt against the wild socialism of Obama was certainly no panacea for establishing common sense. The GOP still needs its feet to be put to the fire.
You believe they will suddenly come forward and say, without any more editing to the law, it’s OK for a drunken person to go home over public roads if it’s via cab? Because cabs pay all these taxes? Crony capitalism isn’t any better than statism.
I don’t understand it.
It would be more logical for cab companies to put heat on the legislature.
Actually what I meant was, they want public intox charges to be applied if a cabbie calls a cop on an unruly passenger. Even if a contract has been made.
As it is, the cabbie has all the blackmail rights over the tipsy passenger now under this decision. If you don’t tip me real good I’ll call a cop. Why would he want it narrowed?
I’d be real curious what MADD has to say about this law....to spend countless years and money to convince society that a designated driver is all you need...and then this?
Would hate to be a bar or restaurant owner in Indiana - no one will get home unfined.....Might as well order Pizza-delivered.
Which would be the opposite of what I envisioned, except that a cop could swoop down on a cab with a tipsy passenger any time and take the passenger away — then the cabbie has to sue to get paid. Even in small claims court that will eat up more money in the cabbie’s time than it’s worth.
But they don’t care. The R’s, The D’s. We don’t count. ALL of them are in it for themselves. You had it right with the United States of Nonsense. My own Repub Governor has lost his freeking mind.
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