The legislators, not sober drivers, are those with Impaired Judgement

Open-container bill would not make roads safer, but make life more difficult for drivers

It 's a good thing that the current draft open-container law was when I was a journalist. One of our photographers could have unknowingly violated the law, as we covered a story.

We have combined two volunteers hilarious, a lawyer and a mortician-house cleaning throughout the city. Their mission: To become real garbage. They discussed what to do with bags of garbage that goopy nicknamed radioactive ("Real garbage collectors are not afraid of nuclear waste.") They mock other volunteers ("Real garbage collectors do not have clean gloves.")

Soon, their truck was full of garbage. I saw another bag.

"Real did not drive cleaning garbage," the passenger said the driver.

The passenger jumped out of the truck and grabbed the bag. He could not wedge into the truck bed, so he opened the car door of the photographer who follows them. He threw the bag on his floor of the front seats.

Under the open-container bill - House Bill 1057 - if there was one empty beer can or a bottle of bourbon inside that bag, could be the ticket.

No matter that she was sober. Never mind that someone else put the bag there without his consent. Never mind that she did not know the contents of the bag. No matter who was carrying away waste. No matter that his employer would have been harder than any officer if he drank while he was working.

All that matters under this bill if there is an open container of alcohol in the passenger compartment.

Once again, our legislature takes us in the land of unintended consequences because it lacks the sense and courage to do the right thing, which is nothing.

Sin. They had been holding firmly against this legislation long sought by the federal government.

The federal government has extorted Hoosiers to the tune of $ 20 million per year in road taxes that our drivers have paid, because he does not like the law of Indiana highway. Never mind that pesky tenth amendment says that powers not specifically designated by the United States Constitution, belong to the states.

The Indiana General Assembly should have learned from his recent tour in the Land of unintended consequences. A law was passed in 2001 and came into force last January all the necessary food serving establishments authorized to employ food handlers.

And 'inadvertently banned potlucks for churches and other nonprofit organizations. Why can not Indiana be dangerous to those ladies church gooseberry pie or pudding corn or potato salad without state approval, even if the bereaved families who have openly appreciated a good meal after the funeral.

Oops.

Back to HB 1057.

As with other laws on alcohol, clearly will have some bizarre inconsistencies. According to the current liquor laws brewing, you can not buy carry out non-alcoholic on Sunday, even if you can not get a buzz out less, but you can buy all 50 proof Nyquil desired. Or 28.6-proof scope. Or 70-proof vanilla extract. (For comparison, the national beers and local wines are 10-14 test 24-28 test.)

I do not want blue laws to prohibit such purchases. But this shows how current laws do not make sense.

Surely harmless non-alcoholic beer will be part of this bill because, Jeepers, a police officer looking from a distance I can not say a green bottle of O'Doul a Becks bottle green.

Why not go through with the law? If you have an opened bottle of Scope, you're toast. Better keep that vanilla in the trunk. And no tolerance for a cup of orange juice, either. If the orange juice in the refrigerator was opened three days ago, has more alcohol than a bottle of O'Doul's.

This bill would punish money launderers, which reduce the burden on our landfills, collecting manure and non-profit support such as housing animals Muncie.

Collectors transporting their goods at the flea market might fines for empty cans and bottles that have been so long that the drinker has been dead for decades. Restaurateurs (or parents of the bride and groom) would not be able to choose where to put the van in half-used bottles left from a wedding reception.

The problem is not with containers of alcohol.

The first problem is unsafe drivers. (Ironically, drunk drivers will drive past police officers ticketing drivers sober.)

The other problem is with the legislators that pass laws without considering the consequences. Their opinion is clearly compromised. They are the ones that deserve mention.