So on Friday, myself and a small group of buddies of mine got together to hit up our local county fair. Its sort of like going to a reunion every year lol.
Anyhow, one of the guys tagging along is kind of a trouble maker when he gets that alcohol in him. What makes matters worse is he should NOT be drinking. He is on prescription meds and recently had a HUGE part of his brain removed due to cancer. But he drinks his butt off anyways and doesn't give a damn.
A little history on this guy: The first time I hung out with him, we all went to a bar out of town where he got pretty buzzed. We then went to another neighboring town to go bar hop. First bar we get to, I sit down while every one makes a beeline for the head. The guy decides to belly up to the bar alone. No more than 1 minute later, the guys come out of the restroom and say, "We gotta go, NOW". He got us kicked out. Pissed me off since I already picked out my women to hit on for the evening in this nice bar. So kicked out of one bar in less than 1 minute. I drive us all (I'm always the DD) across town till he hit another bar. We all go inside, I start to make conversation with the hot bartender and start to make up some ground with her, (she reminded me of my last smokin hot gf) when 15 minutes into it, I get the same message from the bartender, "Sorry but when your buddy gets back inside, he needs to sign the tab and go". Kicked out of another bar. And on the way out, I intercept his arm from hitting some random guy with my arm and drag him into the truck. Pretty rowdy guy and he LOVES to fight when he's drunk. Anyhow, we make it home safe and without an encounter with law enforcement.
Back to the fair! At the fair they serve up LOTS and LOTS of Bud/Budlight and Bluemoon on tap in those little red beer pong cups. $4 each. I have just one 5+ hours earlier that night because once again, I'm DD. So the guys buy their beers drink up and I'd always lose sight of them in one of the beer gardens where a band plays. Usually because I'm chatting it up with some woman while they wander for hot women. I play it smart, I let them come to me or come close lol. Well the guys are buzzed pretty good and wandering the fairgrounds beer cups in hand. I'm talking to a hot woman when I get a text, "Dude, front gate, we gotta go NOW". I reply "10-4", to my buddy somewhere in the fair with the rest of the guys. I get some digits, say good bye and walk towards the front gate. In my mind, I'm thinking"What did they do now?" and seconds later I'm thinking "Oh shit!" because I remembered last time and I'm RUNNING towards the front gate. Not 100 yards later, I spot the nut and one of my buddies talking.... to a sheriff's officer. Apparently, the nut was saying something to a woman as she walked by him, she said something back and he responded with "F#ck off". The sheriff officer gave him hell for telling her to "F#ck off". The woman never complained, they just all kept walking their own separate ways. The officer apparently overheard him. Anyhow, the officer threatened to arrest the nut and kept saying "You want to hit me? You look like you want to hit me" over and over and over. The nut, THIS TIME, was actually minding his P's and Q's since there was an actual cop involved. The officer THEN threatened to arrest him for public intoxication. To make this long story a bit shorter, we managed to get him out of the clink because we actually party and drink and/or went to high school with ALOT of law enforcement guys.
So my question is if the fair serves beer in open containers to customers IN the fair, can a cop REALLY arrest the customers for having an open container and/or even drinking IN the fair?
We already know that the cop could of arrested the nut for telling the random woman to "F#ck off" because they can hold you for 48 hours w/o filing a charge. He could of just to be an a$$hole. Maybe disorderly conduct or something? I don't know. Public indecency?
Anyhow, one of the guys tagging along is kind of a trouble maker when he gets that alcohol in him. What makes matters worse is he should NOT be drinking. He is on prescription meds and recently had a HUGE part of his brain removed due to cancer. But he drinks his butt off anyways and doesn't give a damn.
A little history on this guy: The first time I hung out with him, we all went to a bar out of town where he got pretty buzzed. We then went to another neighboring town to go bar hop. First bar we get to, I sit down while every one makes a beeline for the head. The guy decides to belly up to the bar alone. No more than 1 minute later, the guys come out of the restroom and say, "We gotta go, NOW". He got us kicked out. Pissed me off since I already picked out my women to hit on for the evening in this nice bar. So kicked out of one bar in less than 1 minute. I drive us all (I'm always the DD) across town till he hit another bar. We all go inside, I start to make conversation with the hot bartender and start to make up some ground with her, (she reminded me of my last smokin hot gf) when 15 minutes into it, I get the same message from the bartender, "Sorry but when your buddy gets back inside, he needs to sign the tab and go". Kicked out of another bar. And on the way out, I intercept his arm from hitting some random guy with my arm and drag him into the truck. Pretty rowdy guy and he LOVES to fight when he's drunk. Anyhow, we make it home safe and without an encounter with law enforcement.
Back to the fair! At the fair they serve up LOTS and LOTS of Bud/Budlight and Bluemoon on tap in those little red beer pong cups. $4 each. I have just one 5+ hours earlier that night because once again, I'm DD. So the guys buy their beers drink up and I'd always lose sight of them in one of the beer gardens where a band plays. Usually because I'm chatting it up with some woman while they wander for hot women. I play it smart, I let them come to me or come close lol. Well the guys are buzzed pretty good and wandering the fairgrounds beer cups in hand. I'm talking to a hot woman when I get a text, "Dude, front gate, we gotta go NOW". I reply "10-4", to my buddy somewhere in the fair with the rest of the guys. I get some digits, say good bye and walk towards the front gate. In my mind, I'm thinking"What did they do now?" and seconds later I'm thinking "Oh shit!" because I remembered last time and I'm RUNNING towards the front gate. Not 100 yards later, I spot the nut and one of my buddies talking.... to a sheriff's officer. Apparently, the nut was saying something to a woman as she walked by him, she said something back and he responded with "F#ck off". The sheriff officer gave him hell for telling her to "F#ck off". The woman never complained, they just all kept walking their own separate ways. The officer apparently overheard him. Anyhow, the officer threatened to arrest the nut and kept saying "You want to hit me? You look like you want to hit me" over and over and over. The nut, THIS TIME, was actually minding his P's and Q's since there was an actual cop involved. The officer THEN threatened to arrest him for public intoxication. To make this long story a bit shorter, we managed to get him out of the clink because we actually party and drink and/or went to high school with ALOT of law enforcement guys.
So my question is if the fair serves beer in open containers to customers IN the fair, can a cop REALLY arrest the customers for having an open container and/or even drinking IN the fair?
We already know that the cop could of arrested the nut for telling the random woman to "F#ck off" because they can hold you for 48 hours w/o filing a charge. He could of just to be an a$$hole. Maybe disorderly conduct or something? I don't know. Public indecency?
