https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...cover-operation-it-was-the-booze-13665356.php
If there is a police agency that needs to be defunded it is the beer cops.
If there is a police agency that needs to be defunded it is the beer cops.
TABC Officer Caught in Reverse Sting
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The TABC does a pretty good job tarnishing itself as a bunch of douchebags from the top down.
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06/30/texas-liquor-agency-rebuked-case-regulatory-overkill/
"..If we had 'Mann Act Police', vacationing couples would experience the kind of harassment that gun dealers and collectors have experienced. There would be marriage license checks at state borders. That's because if a bureaucrat has only one law to enforce, survival of his agency demands finding someone who may be violating it..." -Neal Knox on Sen. A. Specter's wondering whether BATF should be abolished, Am. Rifleman 3/96
When I read this the first time, I immediately thought of TABC
When I read this the first time, I immediately thought of TABC
When my kid was in high school, I worked with a parent's booster club selling food and beer at Reliant Stadium and the CWM Pavilion. We had to go through a class in order to limit liability for serving alcohol. So, fine, we did our very best to stay within the law. But TABC did everything in their power to try to trap people. Like they had a rule on the number of beers an individual could buy for himself, which was 2. So a guy and 2 girls would come up and buy 3 drinks. They'd step away, and the guy would hold the drinks while the girls went to the bathroom. Here would come a TABC agent insisting we had sold that guy 3 drinks. Unpleasant words were exchanged before they backed off - and they largely did that because we had a cop in the booth who backed us up. Nevermind people doing ALL kinds of drugs in the audience and such. Typical government bureaucracy - it becomes all about writing a ticket instead of about protecting the public.
I will say the cops that worked with us were pretty cool. A guy tried to buy a beer with a very bad fake ID. I also noticed he seemed stoned. I waived over a cop and he told the guy this one was no good. The guy says, "Well, OK, how about this one?" and hands him another ID. Cop says, "No, this one's no good either. You got any others?" Guy says, "Yeah!" and ultimately produces like 10 IDs - every one was bad and several had different names. It was all the cop could do to keep from laughing to his face. They ultimately escorted him out.
Another time a kid gave me someone else's driver's licence with his picture taped on it with scotch tape. The cop who confiscated it and I both laughed at the kid for such a dumbass trick.
I will say the cops that worked with us were pretty cool. A guy tried to buy a beer with a very bad fake ID. I also noticed he seemed stoned. I waived over a cop and he told the guy this one was no good. The guy says, "Well, OK, how about this one?" and hands him another ID. Cop says, "No, this one's no good either. You got any others?" Guy says, "Yeah!" and ultimately produces like 10 IDs - every one was bad and several had different names. It was all the cop could do to keep from laughing to his face. They ultimately escorted him out.
Another time a kid gave me someone else's driver's licence with his picture taped on it with scotch tape. The cop who confiscated it and I both laughed at the kid for such a dumbass trick.
I have seen how TABC does their stings for both underaged & serving over the limit anyone getting caught by them is an idiot. I was very surprised to see an AR in the trunk of a TABC vehicle too once.
When I see abuse like that it makes me wonder if they wanted some bribes and hinted but Specs put the kibosh on it and this was revenge? Or was somebody paying somebody to put them out of business?
Lol I used to buy beer at 16 with a paper temp Id that I (poorly) erased and changed the date.
Most of the rag heads didnt care
In all fairness, that is a pretty low bar.
About 20 years ago I was doing a PPO job on UT Austin campus.
I saw a group of students walking down Rio Grande carrying ( gasp) beer and other alcohol just purchased from a liquor store.
A Chevy Lumina with no markings but red and blue grill lights came to a screeching stop in the middle of the road and two fairly rotund guys dressed in 5.11s jumped out of the vehicle with their badges on lanyards around their necks and guns in the latest model Serpa holsters and screamed( yes, screamed) “TABC FREEZE”!
They proceeded to ask everyone for their ID, and when everyone produced ID proving they were 21 or older , they proceeded to give one guy static for having out of state ID, telling him he could be cited for not getting a state issued ID as he had been living in Texas for over 30 days.
After a while a UTPD Sgt( maybe it was APD) came up and explained to the two TABC “operators” about why out of state students are not required to get in state ID. Didn’t hear the conversation they had but the two TABC jerkoffs left without issuing tickets and looked pissed off.
I was not more than about 20-30 feet away when I watched this all happen.
It was like an American version of a Monty Python skit.
If an agency has only one rule/law to enforce .........
A local cop tried to get me on that when I went to college. I still had TX plates and DL while in MN.
Pulled me over and wanted to argue about it. I told him to call it in.
Shut his lights off and drove away without coming back to my window.
Never did find out what he learned........
Really?
Just figure it's something they will actually never use before it gets stolen.
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