It wouldn’t take a very good attorney to make the “beer in the fridge” excuse irrelevant.
If I’m driving home from the liquor store and get pulled over, having unopened containers in the car can not be used against me. Same thing here.
I’m not saying I’m for this law. I’m just saying that it really would not be all that impactive on most people. It would be a little like the “stop and frisk” thing.
While I agree with your comment, an anti-gun prosecutor could carry this on long enough to bankrupt the average person with legal fees. In the end it would be a pyrrhic victory for the homeowner.
Been done before with similar laws.
However, if you’re driving home with those same unopened containers and grandma t-bones you, it’s now considered an “alcohol-involved” accident, even though both you and grandma are both sober. You likely won’t be charged with anything, but it WILL be used to pad the statistics, which will be used to tighten the laws even further.
Same slippery slope. You have noticed that the BAC level for what is considered “impaired” has been dropping over the last decade, haven’t you?
I won’t belabor you, but in Canada, Trudeau got a law passed that makes it that you can be charged for impaired driving even if you’ve been home for up to 2 hours. Really.
It’s the same mindset: make criminals out of everyone not a member of the elite. Lavrenty Beria was their visionary.