Let Shakes drink all the beer he wants, this is who the cop needs to arrest. Those aren’t jorts, they a tourniquet for your grundle.
If the OP is anywhere in my neck of the woods, it’s probably something like this. Basically, a taco with fajita meat and vegetables in it, rather than ground beef, cheese, and lettuce. As to why it’s not just called “a fajita,” you got me. Although, being a native of this part of the country, I have never seen the singular “fajita” (without an s) used as a noun.
I’m not exactly “pro cop”. But I’m not “anti cop” either. But, you said something here that bears repeating.
The “system” has no way of dealing with an asshole, unless “it” is aware of the asshole.
You have to know about the problem, before you can fix the problem.
And everyone knows that margaritas go with fajita tacos. Beer goes with pizza and chicken wings. Maybe that’s what his gripe was.
Like putting ketchup on a hot dog.
No. For that, you get an ass kicking too 
Eww!
Hey, put that disgusting weiner back in your jorts.
In that case: You suck at commas.
I think I would have had the beer and sit and watch him and see who had to go back to work first.
Yes, his supervisor will know who was at that location, the officer had to call in before going on break with his location. Call and complain. They may do nothing about it, probably not. But it will get mentioned and noted.
Fajita refers to the cut of meat, specifically, skirt steak. The term has come to generally mean marinated skirt steak served on a toritilla with various condiments, but it can be used alone to mean skirt steak/arrachera.
So let me get this straight. I live in downtown Westfield, NJ. Let’s say I wander the 2 blocks to the Jolley Trolley and hoist a few Blue Moons, planning to walk home afterwards. My car keys would be on me because they’re on my key ring.
So what you’re saying is that if I lived in one of these jurisdictions, an officer could come in and arrest me if I were over the limit? Even if my drivers license shows my address is a couple of blocks away and my car is parked on the street outside my building?
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Hate to ask you for a cite in the Pit, but would you mind giving some further explanation or backup for this?
The Force is strong within this one. He Fights Ignorance well!
Yeah, I don’t feel like Googling at the moment, and journalists aren’t 100% accurate anyway, but I’ve read that it has happened in Alexandria VA. Also check out Bone’s link. I thought that sort of thing also happened in Texas, but I didn’t think it didn’t even need to involve car keys (it talks about being arrested simply for being drunk in a bar!)
You’re right, they might do nothing about it this time…they might do nothing about it next time, but when the supervisor is getting one or two calls a month about it, they’ll do something. OTOH, your call might be the third call that day about him. If you want, you can even do it anonymously (when they ask for your name, just say “I want to keep this anonymous, I don’t want my name on the report” and leave it at that). Keep in mind though that anonymous complaints don’t carry as much weight. But a complaint is a complaint.
You were fortunate enough to have warning. I have no idea why he gave you a heads-up. Sounds like he has added mental issues to the normal cop mental issues.
Where I live, police routinely issue completely bogus tickets. I mean they stop the next car passing after writing a ticket and write another ticket making up the reason for said ticket. The money gets split between the jurisdiction, court, and the state. The judges are supporting themselves and will always side with the officer. One defendant dared to ask if the radar had been calibrated. I thought the judge was going to blow a head gasket. He threw the book at the poor guy. Most of the fake tickets are not radar though. It’s just the officer’s word. One officer admitted on Topix that if we paid more taxes and officer salary, he would write fewer tickets. It’s all about revenue, not safety.
I would do this. His supervisor probably has a pretty good idea of who this is. Terrorizing people for fun is not acceptable. I’m guessing he was picking on you because you were having a beer for lunch and this offended his sense of drinking hours propriety.
Based on watching way too many episodes of COPS, I think Scumpup is exactly right.
But also, think about what a cop does, when you get right down to the nitty-gritty: He or she goes into a chaotic situation - people fighting, yelling, screaming, whatever - and restores order by taking control. The cop, to do this sucessfully, must be a dominant personality who can impose himself and his will. He or she must be something of a control freak; or, in other words, an asshole. Not only does the process select for assholes, it requires them.
But for what it’s worth, and pace Scumpup’s last comment, I got a speeding ticket a few years ago from a North Carolina State Trooper who was very friendly and nice - gave me my ticket without any peckerflexing or attitude. I paid my fine cheerfully.
Not just being drunk in a bar but drunk in a hotel bar where, when you leave, you’re just returning to a room in the same building.
I recall a BBQ thread here a few years ago when the crackdown occurred. Some Texas Dopers suggested this was an obvious attempt by the TABC to shake down out-of-staters for revenue since it was more than likely they’d simply pay the fine rather than fly back to Texas later to defend themselves against some pissant infraction for public intoxication.
This makes a lot of sense. He probably thought “Beer in the early afternoon? Guy must be an alcoholic. Better let him know I ain’t gonna tolerate no drunks on my beat.”
Of course I think the cop’s wrong in this case, but as you say, people have a sense of propriety when it comes to drinking. I was always taught that drinking anytime before noon was “weird,” but in the afternoon, no problem. This cop might think drinking anytime before 5-6 is wrong.
He’s still a douche, but maybe not a crazy douche.
I would say that it probably was at least 50% a shakedown, and 50% enforcement of some weird conservative values. I think the shakedown idea holds water because, at least where I live, there is a palpable sense of “us versus them” (Texans versus people from other states). Probably not as much in the big cities, but the feeling is definitely there in the smaller ones.