there *has* to be more to this story.
i wonder what the legal logic behind this operation is---it would be a state law with what i would imagine is really poor wording--rosy scenario--or it is a state law that passed with language that appears to blur alcohol in with other drugs, which was passed in part because it did so....which i would hope would be challenged and thrown out.
but who knows, maybe there is a neo-prohibitionist tendency in texas.
the only way in which these "stings" would even start ot make sense to me is if the bars raided are all located in places that can only be accessed via car, in places where there are no cab services and no drunk driver shuttle things that you could call---and if the cops could plauibly make the argument in court that these folk--trashed though they were--could only drive home. but even then, i cant imagine this being legit.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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