Open container law

If anything, it helps keep our communities free from empty beer bottles littering the streets.

That, and piss you off.

All I know is you don't walk around with an open beer in Gainesville FL.

What’s really funny is when you grow up with it and then go somewhere that doesn’t have it. I worked with an architect that grew up in New Orleans and went to design school in Savanna which apparently you can also walk around with a beer.

He went to New York on a business trip and went to walk out of a bar with a beer and the bouncer freaked out on him.
“You can’t leave with that bottle.”
“Oh my bad, where’s your go cups.”
“What the hell is a go cup?”
“A cup to put my beer in so I don’t bring the glass bottle on the street?”
“Um, you can’t walk on the street with alcohol sir.”
“Oooohhhh. Why not?”

I argue about this here with rationale people who swear society will cease to exist if you could walk around with a drink. Every “progressive agenda” idea is embraced here yet they can’t shed their Puritan views on alcohol.

“People would be drunk on the streets!” is my favorite. Yes, we all know that you are sober once you leave the bar and only get DUIs because you are actively drinking.

These are the same people that decriminalized weed. I can’t walk my dog at night having a beer but half the other people walking their dog are smoking on the street. No matter your viewpoint on weed, my consumption of alcohol is less intrusive to others than someone smoking a joint.