Should it be legal for passengers to consume alcohol in a moving vehicle?

[dead0man]

All alcohol consumption should be legal, whether in a car or not, moving or not.

This.  Even drivers should be able to drink.  Yes, even while driving.

(not to the point of being drunk of course)

[dead0man]

Yeah, cause that never happens now that it's illegal to drink while driving.

[dead0man]

I think we're on different pages here.  If a guy is driving drunk in my world where it's legal to drink and drive (but NOT be drunk and drive) he is breaking the law when he becomes drunk before he T-bones my family.  The guy is still breaking the law, just like he is in the real world.  Your argument doesn't stand up.  The guy is breaking the law, period.

Now, you could argue that letting people drink while driving would lead to increase in people breaking the law by driving drunk.  I wouldn't buy it still because I (generally) don't like to punish everybody for the actions of a few.

(unless your original post was saying the guy was just drinking a beer and not drunk, in which case wouldn't he have T-boned my family anyway?  Even if he was just drinking a Pepsi.)

[dead0man]

Probably, which is why I don't and won't make a big stink about it.  On the list of "wrongs" in this country it is REALLY far down the list.  Probably wouldn't even make the list actually.


Hijack, wasn't this a fairly common practice by many "regular" adults up through the 70s and early 80s?  My parents were total non-drinkers and didn't hang around with any so I never saw it done by "regular" adults when I was a kid.  I of course saw it a lot when I was a teenager young adult and may have even done it myself a time or five.  Little known fact:most men between 16 and 23 are retarded but think they know everything.