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Tuesday, May 4th, 2004I’m quoted in the Hartford Courant this morning.
Open container laws are probably the least worrisome of the anti-alochol initiatives. It’s really sort of hard to say banning someone from drinking booze while driving is tyranny.
Still, it ought to be a matter for the states to decide. We can’t give Congress a pass on its bullying habit of tying everything to those federal highway dollars simply because this particular law seems less intrusive than the others.
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Geesh, you’d figure an Indiana boy would pay more respect to us local yokel types.
In Louisiana, a state bill is underway to disallow open containers statewide. Some of the exemptions they have come up with are funny. It almosts sounds like ‘unless its Mardi Gras or you are on your way to a tailgate party’. Most cities in La have their own open container laws already, anyway. In my town the rule is ‘open containers are only allowed if they are held below the window.’
I love living in a state that has drive thru liquor stores.
http://2theadvocate.com/stories/041904/new_opencontainer001.shtml
Has anyone considered LA for the freestate project? If I’m not mistaken NH killed the open container.
I think this is an important consideration in the Freestate project. After all you can’t change all the laws immediately and some need to be in place to make the state habitable.
:)
My problem with open container laws has always been that they can present an impossible choice and thus invite abuse.
They assume every vehicle has a trunk.
Example: I go on a picnic in my weekend sports care (or better yet my hatchback with the seats folded down or my SUV). Over the course of an afternoon a bottle of wine is consumed. What do I do with that bottle?
Litter? Thats a crime.
Take it home in the passenger compartment of my car?. Thats a crime too even though the bottle is empty.
Radley wrote, “It’s really sort of hard to say banning someone from drinking booze while driving is tyranny.”
It can be done (link 1, link 2).
Dean,
Mail it to Sammy Sosa. He’ll find a use for both the cork and the bottle.
i live in hartford, connecticut and will make sure my reps continue to treat such nonsense as such.
i will never understand why it should ever be illegal for me (or grandma) to drink alcohol as a passenger in a motor vehicle. we already have enough laws prohibiting driving while intoxicated. i see no benefit to an open container law, other than take away my right to drink whatever the hell i want to drink. as long as i’m not behind the wheel and my driver isn’t drinking, my should ANYONE care!?
We’re in for a rough month of un-fun driving. First this story will stick around for as long as it takes the usual political posturers to milk it for what they can. Then the prissy SADD groups get “news” attention during prom season, and then it will be time for the annual Memorial Day parade of smarmy cops on TV saying “Click it or ticket.” Tell ‘em to “Stick it!”
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