A while back I reported that the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has been cracking down on, well, alcoholic beverage consumption. I wasn’t the only one who didn’t like that.
After an outcry from tourism officials, state lawmakers and the public over a crackdown on public drunkenness in bars, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is conducting an internal investigation and retraining officers in the program.Undercover officers will still be ticketing or arresting bar patrons who are deemed exceedingly drunk, but officials are taking the complaints seriously, commission spokeswoman Carolyn Beck said today.
I’m here to help. Here’s how to tell that your fellow bar patron might be an undercover TABC agent:
- He has a vaguely gun-shaped bulge in his dark blue TABC windbreaker
- He’s driving a white Crown Victoria with official plates and key marks on the doors
- He’s drinking something like milk, Sprite or Zima
- He’s the only one there not having a good time
- He starts cheering when a Cops re-run shows up on the TV
- He totally flips out and starts arresting everybody
If you see someone matching this description, remember his training:
Beck has said officers are looking for a collection of behaviors, including stumbling, an inability to stand or being inappropriately loud.
Sit down and order another Scotch. Quietly.
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They will only target bars frequented by WASP’s. They certainly won’t make an appearance in some of these cantina’s, frequented by “migrant workers”. That would piss off LULAC.
I was drunk IN a bar…THEY threw me into PUBLIC! Arrest them. - Tater
cops hang out in topless clubs… they get a free show, etc
You can always spot an undercover cop by his shoes. They all wear the same dark brown shoes.
TABC agents have been witnessed going into a bar and dragging peolpe from the stools and busting them. Harrassment of bar patrons who are not even driving. Take them down, way down. Our government should remember, one gets what one gives.
You forgot the spot light. I followed a white crown vic to Conroe today that had regular plates and windows that were probably illeagly tinted,but, the tip off was the spot light on the driver’s side. How many of them do you see that are not on cop cars? Pickups maybe but not crown vic fords.