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Work was pretty quiet today and during a somewhat wide-ranging conversation one of my workmates told me some funny stories to do with drunkenness.
One of his stories was that a 'US State' has made 'public drunkenness' an 'inalienable right' and that another defines drunkenness as '...being unable to hold onto the ground...'
Anyone heard anything similar?
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quote:Missouri Missouri considers drunkenness an "inalienable right."
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Thanks for the links, but this raises another question, are these real or has someone made them up?
I'd be very interested in seeing the actual legal text for both of those and this item attributed to Georgia:
quote:You have the right to commit simple battery if provoked by "fighting" words.
I can find it on dozens of 'dumb law' sites but none link to any sort of act or legal code...
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quote:(7) "Intoxication" means being under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, or both, which significantly impairs a person's ability to function;
The word "sober" only occurs twice in the statues, both times refering to the employability of police and firefighters.
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A common condition for criminals' parole is abstinence from alcohol. So a parolee who is just slightly tipsy in the privacy of his residence could, in theory, be shipped back to jail.
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quote:I'd be very interested in seeing the actual legal text for both of those and this item attributed to Georgia:
quote:You have the right to commit simple battery if provoked by "fighting" words.
This seems like nothing more than self defense, which I've used as an explanation on more than one occasion, and I've never been charged with a crime.
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When I think of self defense I think that (general, of course) you were protecting yourself against an attack, but when I think of "fighting words" (as in "them's fightin' words!") I think along the lines of "your momma"
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Maybe this is the source of the Missouri "inaleinable right"
quote:Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 67 Political Subdivisions, Miscellaneous Powers Section 67.305
Counties or cities not to arrest or punish for public intoxication. 67.305. No county or municipality, except as provided in section 67.310, may adopt or enforce a law, rule or ordinance which authorizes or requires arrest or punishment for public intoxication or being a common or habitual drunkard or alcoholic. No county or municipality may interpret or apply any law or ordinance to circumvent the provisions of this section.
However, there are state laws about public drunkenness
quote:Drunkenness or drinking in certain places prohibited--violation a misdemeanor. 574.075. It shall be unlawful for any person in this state to enter any schoolhouse or church house in which there is an assemblage of people, met for a lawful purpose, or any courthouse, in a drunken or intoxicated and disorderly condition, or to drink or offer to drink any intoxicating liquors in the presence of such assembly of people, or in any courthouse within this state and any person or persons so doing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; unless, however, the circuit court has by local rule authorized law library associations to conduct social events after business hours in any courthouse.
The phrase "inalienable right" does not appear in Missouri statutes. The word "inalienable" appears three times--all in laws about wills and probate and always as " a trust or an inalienable interest."
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