If Dallas is anything like Los Angeles (near where I live), then a lot of dance clubs and bars are inside hotels. They are open to the street and the public, it's not like a bar lounge for the occupants. These are part of the night life.
Also, at the club I work at the servers have to cut off the men when they've had too much. If the vice squad comes into my club, then they would ticket the bartender for serving too much alcohol. It was like this in Oregon (where I grew up), too. Oh, and you can't buy liquor in supermarkets or on Sundays in Oregon, either. I bet it's against the law to overserve people everywhere and that this just became a big issue out of something that has already been law for a long time. And I don't go to bars to get drunk, but to hang out and have some fun.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
Not quite. I said we don't need any more laws IF they would enforce the ones that are already there. I, personally, think that they should actually do away with a few of them.
Not quite again. If TABC hits up a bar and they find people falling down drunk, I have no problem with them citing/arresting them. I do have a problem if they hit a hotel bar and arrest people that are staying AT the hotel. Thats a far cry from a more realistic 'wanting to stop drunk driving so we raided hooters' type of argument.
agreed, see my statement above. Again, if they hit up hooters or champs or the local strip club, fine. When you roust hotel patrons at the hotel bar who have no plans to go anywhere, thats an issue.
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