Do you know people who drive around with open alcoholic beverages?

[thebigdude]

There are alot of people that do this, me included on occasion.

 

[ArJuN]

I hate to say it, but I've done it...and a lot of my friends do as well. I don't make a habit of it. I'm retarded.

 

[middlehead]

I drive around with cough syrup all the time.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: dxkj
I've run into a few people (40's-50's) who drive around and dont think twice of opening a cooler and cracking open a beer. This was the first I had run into this, and I was just curious if it was more commonplace than I thought?

I knew some 20 year olds who did it when I was younger, but older adults? Weiird..

If they're in that age group, they were probrably used to doing so legally. I'm now 47 yrs old now, but for the longest time in FL where I grew up many people drove around drinking a cold beer on a hot day-perfectly legal as long as you weren't drunk. Geez, the liqour stores had drive through windows (like fast-food places) where you got a "hard-liquor" cocktail for the go.

 

[phantom309]

Originally posted by: thebigdude
There are alot of people that do this, me included on occasion.

It used to be legal where I come from, and I did it occasionally. I wouldn't do it now on general principles. I don't know what the laws are now, but it was once possible for a responsible adult to drink one or two beers and still be perfectly legal and safe to drive. Not drunk is not drunk. But I know the Carrie Nation types in this country will fly into hysterical spit-spraying outrage at the mere suggestion of that.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
In the US where it has to be in your trunk, wouldn't more young people wanna drive wagons and hatchbacks?

Cop pulls you over, throw the beers back and go, "but its in the tunk, offimicer"

Georgia doesn't have open container laws, unless that's changed since I last was there.

 

[BoberFett]

A couple guys I lived with back in the day did it all the time. I have maybe once or twice in my life, because I cracked a beer and had to leave right away. Didn't want it to get stale.

Open bottle laws make no sense. Drunk driving is drunk driving is drunk driving. Why does it matter where the drinking takes place? What's worse, drinking a single beer while you're driving or slamming eight beers while at a bar then driving home?

 

[waggy]

heh i remember when i was younger my uncle pulling over and getting a case of beer and a long island iced tea at a drive through store in New mexico (or Arizona i was like 10 heh).


only other person is a guy i used to hang out with. he would drive while drinking beer all the time. the guy was always drinking also.

 

[AStar617]

In Trinidad & Tobago most drivers have the steering wheel in one hand and a Carib or Stag beer in the other. Couple that with the general weirdness of driving on the left side of the road, and it's like being in Bizarro World. :Q

 

[bignateyk]

ive done it in pennsylvania illegally, but the driver of the car was a retired state trooper, so no real risk involved there...