People arrested for being drunk in a bar

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

Officials Make Public Intoxication Arrests Inside Bars

POSTED: 4:04 pm CST March 15, 2006
UPDATED: 9:44 am CST March 17, 2006

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IRVING, Texas -- The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has taken its fight against drunken driving to a new level. TABC agents, along with Irving police, targeted 36 bars and clubs Friday, arresting some allegedly intoxicated patrons before they departed the businesses.

The officers and agents also kept watch on bartenders who might have over-served patrons.

Agents arrested 30 people Friday night. Most of the suspects now face charges of public intoxication.

The agents and Irving police officers traveled from bar to bar and worked undercover, according to an NBC 5 report.


The report also said that some agents shared tables with suspected drunken patrons. Some patrons were subjected to field sobriety tests inside bars.

Agents and officers said the operation represented an effort to reduce drunken driving.

Sgt. Chris Hamilton, of the TABC, said some inebriated bar patrons "end up killing themselves or someone else" after departing the businesses.

Mr. Kennedy

It is the bar tenders responsibility to make sure a person doesn't get too drunk, if it will cut down the amount of drunk driving then I am all for it.

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Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

where i go they never cut us off. its pretty sweet.

Justin Zane

That's a load of Bull Shit. I'm from Texas and this pisses my drunk ass off. I mean in Texas we bull shit alot, and have told people I was driving when I wasn't. I live like 10 mins. from the bar so my freiends and I go to the bar and who ever's the last one sober is driving home and we all split who ever's driving us tab the next time we go to the bar. How the hell do u get a PI when your in a Private Estblishment ???? This is like unconstetutional or something

grifter

In Aus there is a thousand rules on drinking in bars,

the latest being no drinking.

breisleach74

thats a pretty universal law that one, it is a criminal offence to serve a patron of the bar who is obvisly intoxicated. The bar can loose its liscence for it

in iohter booze related titbites, in the uk they're running bar one bar all, when you get barred from pub for disorderly etc, the email yoru photo to everyother pub in town.

Blitzkrieg

I've gone to bars in town that will cut you off automatically after like 3 drinks, and I've gone to places that don't give a shit how shitty you are. I prefer the ones that don't give a shit.

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

There is one place around here i don't drink at often but the bitch watiresses will cut you off if you don't tip them. fuck them, i can't even get the bartenders to serve me when i probably got more money than all those *****s that go to the bar