TABC Develops Apps to Curb Excessive, Underage Drinking
As college students from across the nation head to Texas beaches for spring break, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is already making plans to have new tools at its disposal for next year's partiers — mobile phone apps that it hopes will curb excessive and underage drinking.
One app will allow users to gauge their motor skills through a series of increasingly difficult tests, and the other would let anyone file a complaint against an establishment if it is suspected of serving alcohol to a minor or of breaking rules against serving too much alcohol to customers.
Although both apps ...
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Jack Suggs via Texas Tribune on Facebook
TABC Developing Apps to Curb Excessive, Underage Drinking, by Gerald Rich (Gerald, stop it).
Jose B. Gonzalez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Won't make a difference if it takes 6 months for an agent to visit the establishment & investigate...
Jozette Lynn Lopez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Drinking age needs to be 18, seriously.
The Wilson Group via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Here's hoping that the people who need these apps the most use them!
Audrey Fisher via Texas Tribune on Facebook
As there is no "baseline", for the Klutzes and uncoordinated of the world - you are screwed!
Bea McGuire via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but instead of giving the TABC extra money for an app to tattle on some business, couldn't this money have gone into the education fund so that districts weren't cutting their music programs or laying off teachers???? This just seems like a way to pawn off their job onto some student IMHO.
Tom Alciere
Always remember that the only reason they get away with alcohol enforcement is because good cop-killers are hard to find these days. Once the outvoted discrimination victims solve that problem, the Texas Legislature will have to choose between losing ten percent of their highway grants or losing one hundred percent of their law enforcement protection. They'll vote to lose the money, and there will be liberty and justice for all.
In a free country, the citizen would freely decide what to drink, parents would govern their child until he or she moves out, and the punishment for drunk driving would be meted out to the drunk drivers.
Rest assured the outvoted discrimination victims can figure out why so many voters and politicians would rather impose tough underage drinking laws on people under 21, instead of imposing tough DWI laws on themselves. The hate-mongering MADD bigots are in, too, because when they give victim impact statements to the drunk drivers, they know they are talking about themselves, too. They pretend their own past drunk driving crimes are not their own fault, but the fault of a society that was tolerant of underage drinking. That way, they can pretend they aren't the same as the drunk driver who hit their family member, because they are not tolerant of underage drinking. Listen to them and you'll notice they cannot even differentiate between drinking alcohol and drunk driving, because the first thing they always did whenever they got hammered was to climb into a car and try to drive it somewhere. They cannot even picture somebody under 21 drinking responsibly.
If they enjoy the warm feeling they get inflicting upon Mr. and Mrs. Twenty protection against hangovers, they should pour gasoline all over themselves and light a match. They'll get a warmer feeling, and the human race will be better off without those bigots.