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Originally Posted by Sultana
Any how about arresting drunks for assault and battery, molesting poultry, and the myriad of other crimes that often take place under the influence?
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I think that's the point of this new tactic - preventative maintenance. We all know that drunks do some stupid things, and if you're not allowing them to get out of control, then you theoretically keep a lid on the stupidity.
As far as a crime not being committed, I'm afraid that you're wrong. The bars are certainly overserving these folks, and that's against the law. The individuals in question are drunk in a public establishment. That's against the law as well. If you don't like the law, then get it changed.
Obviously I don't know the whole story, but I'll wager that the hotel bar in question has a history of either overserving patrons or serving underage patrons. Having been to many a hotel bar in my day, I can tell you that I've certainly been overserved in some and that I've done some considerable damage afterwards (my apologies Airport Hilton of Minneapolis for leaving a steaming pile of something in a stairwell on a bet). I'll agree that a hotel bar is an unlikely place for habitually overserving people but the Bi-Lo on Sutherland Avenue in Knoxville, TN was an unlikely place to sell beer to kids from a private school 10 miles away. That didn't stop it from happening.