Open Containers of they Boozy Kind

[Darwinself]

Texas is considering banning open containers in cars. An irrate denizen of my fair city wrote a letter to the editor of our only newspaper complaining that this would restirct his right to be a designated driver for his boozed up friends.

Am I missing something in the logic here? Could this have been sarcasm or am I overestimating my peers?

Mama Maroon

[Silver Fire]

I think what the writer of the letter was getting at is, as long as s/he's not drinking and driving, why can't the passengers be drinking? After all, they aren't the ones operating a motor vehicle. We (in Mn) already have the law. Just to play it safe, if I'm transporting alcohol (which I have no business doing, considering I'm not old enough to drink) I keep it in the trunk.

[bernse]

I thought that was already illegal everywhere. Guess I'm wrong. Oh well. I don't see a problem with it.

[lurkernomore]

I think the idea is, when they're pulling over Jim-Bob he can't just pass his Lone Star over to Cletus and say "Just say it's yours." I thought it was illegal everywhere, too.

Must say, though, Dallas drivers seemed the most polite I've seen.

(OK, compare them to NY, Washington, Boston, California, etc, ANYONE seems polite)

[Gunslinger]

I don't know...Louisiana has drive-thru daquiri stores :)