Texas: Off The Vacation List

I've been trying to figure out the logic behind this move that the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has made, and can't. Well I can, but the explanation involves them inbibing everything they're either seizing or banning, and since I have no proof of this I won't cast stones.

But try explaining this. They're sending undercover agents into bars...looking for drunks.

This is real, folks. Apparently in Texas, "being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkeness" says the commission's Carolyn Beck. The first sting operation was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication.

Public intoxication. In a bar.

Not outside the bar. Not bobbing and weaving on the sidewalk, or upchucking in the alley. Inside the bar.

"There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they're intoxicated, other than get behind the wheel of a car," Beck said. "People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss."

Apparently in Texas they also act as spokesperson for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.

So, word to the wise. Watch that beer count when you're in the longhorn, cuz that chick looking more and more attractive with each chug? She may just have a pair of handcuffs waiting to use on you, and it ain't for kinky play.