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Originally Posted by dyna mo
no open container laws back then either, we used to drive around with the gun rack full and plenty of schlitz to go around.  |
When I was in St. Martin in 1998 partying...I rented a mini-moke (a tiny jeep with an old MG engine in it) to drive around in.
We drove with our drinks in our hand and waved to the traffic cops (they waved back).
As for open container laws in the U.S....by the time I was in high school, they had already initiated that law.
I thought then, and I think now...it's another bullshit law.
Down in Florida they had "Bottle Clubs" which were basically nightclubs without a liquor license.
You paid a big cover charge at the door, which was your "membership fee" to the private club for the night. Then you took your bottle of booze to the bar and they labeled it as yours.
Then you paid a couple of bucks for a set up each time you got a drink.
My band used to play at those kinds of places all the time around 1980/1981.
So people would go to the liquor store and buy a giant bottle of Jack Daniels, drink a few drinks out of it at the "Bottle Club". Then they would get their bottle of Jack back from the bar to go home.
Then the cops would pull them over and arrest them for an "open container" because the seal on the bottle was broken.
It was a total bullshit thing to do. And not in the "spirit" of the law at all.
Same thing would happen if you had a nice bottle of wine and only drank a glass of it and wanted to take the bottle home with you.
These laws turn ordinary citizens into "criminals" with all of this "preemptive" nonsense.