[Goober5000]

K, morality discussion split.

[aldo_14]

Oh, yes, Heavan forbid these drunks be prevented from getting in their car and killing someone!

The need for privacy is one thing, but I have absolutely no problem with police picking up people who are drunk oout of their skulls. Better they cool their heels at the local lockup rather than get in their cars and hurt themselves or - even worse - someone else. Anyway, considering 36 bars were 'infiltrated' and only 30 people taken in, it's more than likely they only targeted the truly off-their-arse types, it's not like they were cuffing people who'd had half a pint.

They're not being arrested for drink driving though, or even getting in a car whilst drunk- they're being arrested for public drunkeness in a pub.  More importantly, the reason given as justification is that 'they might do something stupid'.  It is effectively moral policing, and the question has to be how moral it is to arrest people for this before they've done anything that is provably wrong.  I don't drink, and I hate people who get pissed out their face, but I wouldn't arrest them simply for being drunk (but would for vandalism, intimidating people, etc).  Particularly as the metric here for what justifies the arrest seems to be very open to the officers interpretation and thus has a potential for abuse.

[Sandwich]

[q]In other news, a human baby boy was born to a normal family just north of Houston, Texas. Police were on the spot at the time of birth, and allowed the doctors to clean the newborn up before placing him under arrest, citing that the baby 'might do something stupid" when he grew older. The length of incarceration could be as long as 120 years, or as long as the person in question is deemed to be a possible threat to others.[/q]

[Grug]

I don't drink

Egads! A scot that don't drink! =o
What's the world coming too!


But yeah, arrest them for picking fights and being tards, not for simply being drunk. Again, living on a policy of what might occur is bad form.

[aldo_14]

I don't drink

Egads! A scot that don't drink! =o

We have a quota system; 1 in 10 of us doesn't drink in order to bring down the average - so no-one realises we're a nation of pickles.

[Grug]

We have a quota system; 1 in 10 of us doesn't drink in order to bring down the average - so no-one realises we're a nation of pickles.

I'm not so sure that its working.

Would explain why your always on the ball when posting though. Half the time I post when I'm half pissed.