Question: what is the purpose of a "drunk and disorderly" law?
Seems to me it is a prophylactic law. In other words, it is used to prevent you for breaking other laws.
Now I can see how this might be applicable if the person was drunk and about to drive off in their car. This makes sense. However, if am passed out in my car, sleeping off the alcohol, clearly I have taken the right course of action. I am not driving. Would you rather I slept in the street?
As for someone drunk and walking down the street... who am I hurting? If I am making excessive noise, I am disturbing the peace. Seems to me, a rather arbitrary law.
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