Things Could Be Worse...

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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.

"There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they're
intoxicated, other than get behind the wheel of a car," Beck said.
"People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of
balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss."

She said the sting operations would continue throughout the state.

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