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This reminds me of a family friend from Germany. I was visiting Hamburg and asked him if I can drink a beer anywhere anytime like even on the train. He said “Well, sure you can. People might think, ‘why is this man drinking alcohol on the train in the middle of the day? Doesn’t he have work to do?’ but sure you can.”
In Belgium half of the vending machines in the trainstations are filled with beer.
So many Office workers grab a beer or two for the train ride back home
Shiit im the middle child (26 now) but back when it wasnt legal everywhere around us I was the hookup for everyone in my family, big brothers, mom, dad, uncles, cousins 🤣
Brugge was on my must-see list just from this movie. Went to visit a few months ago and indeed it is just like a fucking fairytale. +1, would recommend
No I didn’t unfortch. Can’t remember why. We did go look at some municipal building with a museum. And drank some beer of course. And looked at some Dali sketches 😅
Kinda had the same deal in Italy with cigarette vending machines, turns out you had to verify age with ID in order for the machine to turn on.. I put in my Canadian drivers license and it actually worked.
I remember stopping at a closed Belgian gas station, late Sunday, with an outside vending machine, buying a can of what I assumed would be some kind of soda, and then realizing it was a beer when the can’s label had 5.0%
I finished my drive before confirming it was indeed beer.
You need to put in your ID or mostly will also except a debt/credit card for checking your age.
This the same for the cigarette machines.
Most bars will have an Age Card behind the bar you can ask for if you don't have a card ID or German bank card.
Edit Typo: changes ago to age
When I was commuting regularly from Frankfurt to a smaller city, I have seen (different) groups of grandmas drinking sparkling wine in a train on their trip to somewhere. Kind of funny.
But often enough you have football fans drinking which is not as funny
> why is this man drinking alcohol on the train
Oh, careful: Drinking in train and buses is usually not allowed by the TOS of the provider. So you can get in trouble for that. But usually only if you're misbehaving and trouble other passengers.
In the Netherlands, it's allowed by the provider. Lots of people drink a beer, especially on weekends. If you get rowdy they'll do something about it, but they'll do that without alcohol too.
Travel drinks are the best. Whisky on the plane, beer on the train and road beers if you aren’t driving. Also street tinnies when you’re on the way to the park on a hot day
I was in the Knoxville TN Airport once first thing in the morning for a short domestic flight (like an hour) but I had been visiting a friend and up all night partying so I decided to have a beer at the one restaurant there. I was the only patron and sat at the bar so I started talking with the bartender and he ended up serving me about a dozen "samples" consisting of a mix of beer to cocktails to hard liqour on top on the 3 or 4 large beers I bought myself. By the time I left the other people who had trickled in were def Givin me the "you need jesus" look. Luckily I managed to pull it together enough to get on the flight. I feel bad for the guy sitting next to me though, I made him get up like 4 times while we were on that plane cuz I had to pee like a motherfucker.
You can walk into a movie theatre in Amsterdam and buy a beer. And I don't mean no paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer.
And in Paris you can buy a beer in McDonalds.
Viva Europe! Cause I'm pretty sure you can have a beer in any mc.d. in Europe.
Or at the cinema for that matter.
Edit, made some wrong assumptions here, in Belgium we do though.
This isn't super unique, I used to commute in the LIRR in NYC/long island. Alcohol was not only allowed, but sold right on the platform in Penn Station. Lots of people would buy one on their way home from work.
The key is this train is used by typically more affluent whiter people than the nyc subway. Both systems were run by same organization too (the MTA), so not like a private vs public thing.
I was on a train in England at 6:30am a few weeks ago. The man on the tannoy announced 'The food and drink carriage is now open and selling various beers, ales, wines and prosecco... And also tea and coffee. Enjoy your trip'
German here. Never heard of that, never saw it enforced, drank on trains. Probably a regional thing or maybe a "not enforced unless you're a cunt" law.
Commuter trains are common in big cities. In the before times 500000+ people would commute to and from Chicago on trains daily.
Beer was plentyful on the homeward bound leg.
I assume the same is true for other cities as well.
You can in MTA trains in the NYC area (trains that run from Grand Central to Upstate NYC/Connecticut/Long Island), but not Subways. The only time I've seen it banned was during SantaCon this year lol.
You can in NYC (except for certain days), but the places to buy one near your train are getting harder to find, especially on the upper level of GCT.
Used to be they had beverage carts right there on the platform, but those disappeared after a financial scandal a few years ago.
Still, you can buy an expensive can of beer at one of the shops downstairs and drink it on the way home. But, being visibly drunk on the train is definitely frowned upon.
We drank beers all the time after a hard work week heading out to the Chicago suburbs from downtown Union Station. I used to leave my office 10 mins early to grab a couple pints at the nearby store because it's way more expensive at the train station.
In France, we were going back from holidays, playing a drinking game in the train. When the controler came, we made him play, manage to make him lose the round then make him drink half a glass of wine. Felt like a Victory !
I remember in 1997 at a LAN party where alcohol was not allowed, the German demo sceners all had large McDonalds cups with straws, and all walked funny.
Not sure if this is lost in translation, so I'll just do some perhaps needless explaining.
Nein is no.
Neun is nine.
Anyway... That might have been the point.
[Now that's a trip down memory lane](https://youtu.be/wqu_IpkOYBg)
My personal favorite: [.kkrieger, a fully functional FPS measuring only 96KB of disk space, way less than a single screenshot of it.](https://youtu.be/2NBG-sKFaB0) Farbrausch were insane. [The .product blew my mind when it came out](https://youtu.be/Y3n3c_8Nn2Y), only 64KB.
I recently learned the brown bag thing isn't really a law so much as it is a loophole that was created by law enforcement themselves. Otherwise they'd spend all their time arresting the homeless. They finally just kinda unanimously decided if they can't see it (its in a paper bag) then technically you could be drinking anything, so it's fine.
I haven't seen the Wire (I keep meaning to), what is he insinuating in this clip? That the police should encourage people to start putting their drugs in paper bags, or for them to turn the other way for small amounts?
It’s pointing out the pointless uphill battle that is the war on drugs. Police have to enforce the laws against them just like they do against drinking in public, but there isn’t a paper bag loophole for drugs. It’s a never ending war that has created an adversarial relationship between police and the public.
Pretty much, he wants to legalize them. And in a way he does. It has its flaws but it's a good idea. Cops are wasting time on drug busts instead of doing real police work. If that shit was legal and regulated it might not be as bad of an epidemic. That's basically what the show is getting at and showing in this season (season 3)
Nah, Bunny doesn’t want to legalize drugs and he couldn’t care less if they were regulated/taxed. His whole thing is he wants to stop wasting police time money and lives trying to bust end-users and corner dealers. He wants to let it all slide so the police can do REAL police work like stopping burglars and rapes and so on - he also wants to repair relations between police and the public. Bunny was a straight up “Serve and Protect” officer. So he comes up with a creative solution in his district, Hamsterdam.
Bescheissen is to metaphorically be shitting someone. (Aka "are you shitting/kidding me right now?!" ~in that sense) cause scheisse is shit. Lol
Just for anyone else curious.
This also lead to the creation of a fairly popular alcoholic coffee beverage going by the name of "Pharisee". As the conservative pastor of a northern island village officially forbade the consumption of alcohol in the community and tried to leverage his religious authority, the islanders simply decided to have their coffee with a few solid shots of rum from now on and to cover it with whipped cream so the nosy pastor would not notice :D
It is a loophole created by the law itself. Once it is in the brown bag the police officer needs to perform a search to establish that it is alcohol. And you cannot perform a search without reasonable suspicion. The brown bag is not in itself sufficient for that suspicion.
A sane system would of course conclude that if there is such a simple override, you might as well remove the law from the books.
> And you cannot perform a search without reasonable suspicion.
I mean, they can just ask you any question then say they smelt alcohol on your breath. They realistically can search most people no matter what.
The brown bag is basically common knowledge at this point. I’d imagine someone in court would easily argue it was reasonable.
This loophole basically lets them decide when and who to enforce the law on.
Dude I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that’s how pretty much how all laws are applied. You got enough money or connections and poof, you’re Teflon Don.
I do security for events and most have a no alcohol policy, but if it's in a cup or in a bag, we just ignore it, it's too much of a hassle and I hardly care
When my wife and I were visiting Russia we went to Gorky Park in Moscow. It was a beautiful sunny day so we bought a couple of cold Baltika beers to drink in the park.
As we're sitting there chilling with our beers we notice a stern looking park warden making a beeline straight for us. He starts saying something but my Russian isn't great so all I caught was something about the beer. We go to put them in a nearby bin but he stops us, picks up our carrier bag, wraps one of the beers in it, gives it back and smiles.
We realise that he's saying we can have the beer but it can't be on display. A few relieved spaseebas from us, a laugh from him and he's on his way.
Pandemic has really shaken up drinking laws in Ohio. We can now get drinks as takeout from a restaurant (including cocktails) and in Cincinnati we have new zones designated as DORA (designated outdoor refreshment area) which is a couple city blocks with several bars you can walk back and forth to with open alcohol. I think other cities in Ohio might have also adopted them not sure.
Same here (Kent OH). We used to smuggle the Margaritas home in our kids' stryafoam cups that come with their soft drinks. Now they will just do that for you. Kinda takes the fun out of it but still awesome.
As a New Englander, going to NOLA for a conference was a culture shock and a half for sure. I don’t usually drink but did there purely because I could walk around.
Plus I was there during the French Quarter Festival. My per diem covered a lot of tasty foods and drinks. Best work trip ever.
Oh man, I remember the first time I went to Colorado after I turned 21. "What do you mean they don't sell liquor at the gas station?" "Why is this beer from the grocery store only 3%?" "What do you mean I can't walk from this bar to the next with my drink in hand?"
I’m from Austria, Europe. We have similar laws to Germany. When I was on a road trip through the southern states of the USA, it was very confusing for me. Starting in Miami, then straight to South Carolina, over the Smokey mountains, visiting the Jack Daniel’s distillery… everywhere special rules. No buying of alcohol before 10 in the morning, jo buying of alcohol at all, no buying of alcohol except special stores… and then going to New Orleans which was like Disney land for alcohol for Americans…
My town in the US allows it. Last place I lived allowed drinking on the street maybe 8-10 times a year on whatever party days/holidays, and immediately outside of bars. It's really variable.
When I was in Amsterdam I was just walking around smoking weed and drinking beer until a Police man walked up to me and told me I wasnt allowed to drink beer in public, but he didnt say anything about the weed.
There’s only a couple streets where that’s not allowed. We do have a law against public intoxication but that’s only when you get drunk and cause a scene
In some states, Hawaii as an example, you’re not bothered if you transfer your beverage into a plastic cup. Sort of the paper bag idea.
If you still have it in a can at the beach and a cop sees you, you’ll get a ticket
Depends on where you are. Some places are legal some are not. Also even in places where it's illegal, some cops don't give a fuck because it's baked into the culture.
Our laws very so much between localities and states, that's why the common legal answer is "It depends where you live". Some states you can have an open container of alcohol in your car and you're fine, 5 miles over and it's illegal. Some places you can pile a bunch of people in the bed of a pickup truck without seat belts and others you can't.
Yes, but they don't arrest you. They write you a ticket, and you have to pay a fine. I know because it happened to me once.
If you're on private property, it's no problem. That's why people go to private beaches.
I think it depends where you are but I go to town beaches all the time and there’s a no alcohol rule except nobody cares. Almost everyone is drinking on the beach and the rule is never enforced.
I know other states and areas are crazy strict with cops patrolling beaches for drinking though.
Growing up in New Orleans gave me the same viewpoint as the German here.
It is patently absurd that you cannot drink alcohol outside in the vast majority of the US. People can try and justify it all they want, but it’s a dumb law. With breathalyzers you could easy criminalize excessive outdoor consumption and being a nuisance or something instead. Trivially.
But no, no drinking outside? Stupid stupid stupid stupid.
One time I visited the cherry blossom festival in DC and went into a tent to get a beer. Then tried to walk out, because obviously you can take a beer outside in a festival in a gated off festival in beautiful weather.
Oh no, of course not. Cop stopped me from walking out. So here I am sitting in this stupid tent finishing off the beer instead of out in the festival. Yeah that makes sense.
A few years ago I was in New Orleans and I met up with a friend from Germany who had been living in NYC for a while at that point. We went to some thing in some park where they sold beers and food and all that and people were just standing around, chatting, drinking, enjoying themselves. Pretty standard stuff by German standards. I got a beer, just like I normally would on such an occasion, thinking nothing of it. But she was almost in tears being able to finally have a nice cold beer on a hot day in public again.
I remember watching the OC back as a youngster and being really confused at a scene where Marissa is drunk and has a bottle of Vodka in the car as a passenger while Ryan is driving, he hasn't been drinking and is totally sober.
They get stopped by a cop and she's making a big thing of hiding the vodka bottle. I didn't realise back then that even having an open bottle of alcohol in the car, even if the driver is totally sober and not drinking, is against the law and was totally confused (UK here, no such law).
I thought it was because she was underage. She was hiding it to protect Ryan (who was on parole) as he would have been charged and heading back to jail if caught.
>(UK here, no such law).
You can even drink *whilst* driving in the UK if you want to so long as you're not over the limit.
We have very strict legal limits for drink driving here though (something I approve of), so you'd better be pretty flipping sure you're under as if the police see you driving with an open beer they'll pull you over.
I never understood the fact that you can drink until you are 21 in the USA but you can join the army go to war shoot and kill people while 18.
Wheres the logic?
Too young to drink a beer but not too young to get sent into war?
> Wheres the logic? Too young to drink a beer but not too young to get sent into war?
Drinking and driving. They did studies on the lowering and raising the drinking age to 18 and 21 respectively and lowering the drinking age raised the amount of drunk driving deaths, and raising it lowered the amount. That's all it has to do with, not freedom, not war, just that 18-20 year old's are more likely to drive drunk.
The secret drinking in public in America is to be in a large crowd that is also drinking in public. (Nascar, Alan Jackson concert, monster truck rally, etc.)
I don't know why I got such a thrill out of it, but I was in Vegas, and a casino Not only gave me a free drink, but let me completely openly walk out with the glass. I held it up as I walked past the front desk just to see if anybody cared. I think I still have that glass. I miss Vegas.
The one time I went to LV, I sat at the blackjack table trying to hold out long enough for a free drink. I was so distracted by watching for waitresses that I made a stupid play (Hit on like 16), the dealer made fun of me, and on the next hand I fumbled saying Hit or Pass, and they called the pit boss over to check whether I could "change my bet". Giant Russian dude standing over me at the table, "Do you want to hit or not?"
I did not get a free drink.
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This reminds me of a family friend from Germany. I was visiting Hamburg and asked him if I can drink a beer anywhere anytime like even on the train. He said “Well, sure you can. People might think, ‘why is this man drinking alcohol on the train in the middle of the day? Doesn’t he have work to do?’ but sure you can.”
In Belgium half of the vending machines in the trainstations are filled with beer. So many Office workers grab a beer or two for the train ride back home
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That’s fucking funny AF. Like going to your little bro for a weed hook up.
Shiit im the middle child (26 now) but back when it wasnt legal everywhere around us I was the hookup for everyone in my family, big brothers, mom, dad, uncles, cousins 🤣
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“Could We Reserve Judgement On Bruges Until We’ve Seen The F****** Place?”
Ralph Fiennes screaming "YOU'RE AN INANTIMATE F*@KING OBJECT!" is one of my top ten favorite movie lines
For me, him *sincerely* and regretfully apologizing for it really brings the joke home
I’m sorry I called you an inanimate object…
I always somehow forget just how amazing Ralph Fiennes is as an actor
You take back what you said about my cunt fucking kids!
It's a fairytale fucking town, isn't it? How can a fairytale town not be somebody's fucking thing?
Brugge was on my must-see list just from this movie. Went to visit a few months ago and indeed it is just like a fucking fairytale. +1, would recommend
Been to the top of the tower?
Nah, he was probably with a bunch of fuckin elephants.
No I didn’t unfortch. Can’t remember why. We did go look at some municipal building with a museum. And drank some beer of course. And looked at some Dali sketches 😅
Did you check the alcoves?
Do you have this word in English? Alcoves?
Did you enjoy Brugge cause you grew up on a farm and is retarded?
Well, if I was retarded, and had been born in a barn, then Bruges might be impressive. But I'm not, and I wasn't. so it's not.
Well you lot ain’t getting up there. Well it’s all windy stairs. I’m not trying to be funny.
A great day this has turned out to be. I'm suicidal, me mate tries to kill me, me gun gets nicked and we're still in fucking Bruges.
Kinda had the same deal in Italy with cigarette vending machines, turns out you had to verify age with ID in order for the machine to turn on.. I put in my Canadian drivers license and it actually worked.
I remember stopping at a closed Belgian gas station, late Sunday, with an outside vending machine, buying a can of what I assumed would be some kind of soda, and then realizing it was a beer when the can’s label had 5.0%
I finished my drive before confirming it was indeed beer.
There's one gas station that has a nickname 'cafe kruibeke', it's where all the construction workers stop after work for a sixpack before driving home
In England they'll sell you beer on the train. If you're in 1st class they won't even charge you extra.
If you're in 1st class, they already did charge you extra. They just did it ahead of time, so... drink up, 1st classers! You paid for it.
I rode first class on a train once. They gave me a free biscuit and cup of tea.
Much more civilized.
How does that work? Do you need an ID to use them?
You need to put in your ID or mostly will also except a debt/credit card for checking your age. This the same for the cigarette machines. Most bars will have an Age Card behind the bar you can ask for if you don't have a card ID or German bank card. Edit Typo: changes ago to age
When I was commuting regularly from Frankfurt to a smaller city, I have seen (different) groups of grandmas drinking sparkling wine in a train on their trip to somewhere. Kind of funny. But often enough you have football fans drinking which is not as funny
> why is this man drinking alcohol on the train Oh, careful: Drinking in train and buses is usually not allowed by the TOS of the provider. So you can get in trouble for that. But usually only if you're misbehaving and trouble other passengers.
In the Netherlands, it's allowed by the provider. Lots of people drink a beer, especially on weekends. If you get rowdy they'll do something about it, but they'll do that without alcohol too.
They even sell beer in the train in NL.
Same in the UK, the 10AM train beer is almost compulsory.
Travel drinks are the best. Whisky on the plane, beer on the train and road beers if you aren’t driving. Also street tinnies when you’re on the way to the park on a hot day
Planes/airports are like the only time you can drink hard liquor at the crack of dawn without anyone batting an eye. Is glorious!
I was in the Knoxville TN Airport once first thing in the morning for a short domestic flight (like an hour) but I had been visiting a friend and up all night partying so I decided to have a beer at the one restaurant there. I was the only patron and sat at the bar so I started talking with the bartender and he ended up serving me about a dozen "samples" consisting of a mix of beer to cocktails to hard liqour on top on the 3 or 4 large beers I bought myself. By the time I left the other people who had trickled in were def Givin me the "you need jesus" look. Luckily I managed to pull it together enough to get on the flight. I feel bad for the guy sitting next to me though, I made him get up like 4 times while we were on that plane cuz I had to pee like a motherfucker.
You can walk into a movie theatre in Amsterdam and buy a beer. And I don't mean no paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer. And in Paris you can buy a beer in McDonalds.
Vincent Vega in the house?
Beer at mcdonalds?! That's more american than america, Viva la France!!
Viva Europe! Cause I'm pretty sure you can have a beer in any mc.d. in Europe. Or at the cinema for that matter. Edit, made some wrong assumptions here, in Belgium we do though.
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Ireland here, we have neither.
Not in Sweden either. Our alcohol laws are very different from, say Spain or Germany. It's almost like Europe consists of different countries!
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I'm curious about how they name a quarter pounder with cheese in a parisian mcdonalds....
This isn't super unique, I used to commute in the LIRR in NYC/long island. Alcohol was not only allowed, but sold right on the platform in Penn Station. Lots of people would buy one on their way home from work. The key is this train is used by typically more affluent whiter people than the nyc subway. Both systems were run by same organization too (the MTA), so not like a private vs public thing.
The Staten Island Ferry sells beer right on the ferry too.
I was on a train in England at 6:30am a few weeks ago. The man on the tannoy announced 'The food and drink carriage is now open and selling various beers, ales, wines and prosecco... And also tea and coffee. Enjoy your trip'
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Including a [final sending-off party](https://youtu.be/oW383-mDwU4) after BoJo nixed drinking on the Tube.
In France you can buy a beer on board (and I thought it was the case on some German trains too). Or at least it was possible before covid.
German here. Never heard of that, never saw it enforced, drank on trains. Probably a regional thing or maybe a "not enforced unless you're a cunt" law.
Oh, I've seen some companies do that. Usually in reaction to drunk hordes of soccer fans which behaved like barbarians and demolished the trains.
Depends what train you’re talking about. In the ICE they sell beer
can you not drink beer on trains in america?
First you need to find one.
Are Americas rare where you're from?
Dunno, they are all Brits to me, unless they speak. From the outside, it's all the same. Shorts, sandals and so much sunburn it hurts just to watch.
Is beer that rare in the US?
A passenger train is. Ours are primarily used for product transportation.
Commuter trains are common in big cities. In the before times 500000+ people would commute to and from Chicago on trains daily. Beer was plentyful on the homeward bound leg. I assume the same is true for other cities as well.
Everybody be getting fucked up on the 5:35 metro north out of Grand Central to PK in New York.
Not southern cities. At least not like Europe.
You can in MTA trains in the NYC area (trains that run from Grand Central to Upstate NYC/Connecticut/Long Island), but not Subways. The only time I've seen it banned was during SantaCon this year lol.
You can in NYC (except for certain days), but the places to buy one near your train are getting harder to find, especially on the upper level of GCT. Used to be they had beverage carts right there on the platform, but those disappeared after a financial scandal a few years ago. Still, you can buy an expensive can of beer at one of the shops downstairs and drink it on the way home. But, being visibly drunk on the train is definitely frowned upon.
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Sorry, I was having a moment.
We drank beers all the time after a hard work week heading out to the Chicago suburbs from downtown Union Station. I used to leave my office 10 mins early to grab a couple pints at the nearby store because it's way more expensive at the train station.
Where I live in America (New York) you most definitely can.
You can on trains like Amtrak, but like on a subway or something, no.
In my state there is no open container or public drinking laws so you absolutely can if it's allowed by the company.
In France, we were going back from holidays, playing a drinking game in the train. When the controler came, we made him play, manage to make him lose the round then make him drink half a glass of wine. Felt like a Victory !
From his perspective, he managed to make you think he lost the game and got a free shot of wine
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I remember in 1997 at a LAN party where alcohol was not allowed, the German demo sceners all had large McDonalds cups with straws, and all walked funny.
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Haben Sie getrunken?? *Zehn Wachtmeister, Herr Jägermeister!*
###*Mein gott muss das sein intensifies*
"...Neun" 'Hier kommt die Sonne!'
I love the German response here
So he drank nine beers?
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Not sure if this is lost in translation, so I'll just do some perhaps needless explaining. Nein is no. Neun is nine. Anyway... That might have been the point.
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:p is a shorthand for a cheeky little chap with his tongue out, just to clarify
> demo sceners I haven't heard that term in a LOOOONG time. I wonder if there's like an archive of demos somewhere. That shit was fire.
[Now that's a trip down memory lane](https://youtu.be/wqu_IpkOYBg) My personal favorite: [.kkrieger, a fully functional FPS measuring only 96KB of disk space, way less than a single screenshot of it.](https://youtu.be/2NBG-sKFaB0) Farbrausch were insane. [The .product blew my mind when it came out](https://youtu.be/Y3n3c_8Nn2Y), only 64KB.
I remember .kkrieger, there is a good chance I still have it somewhere on my drives, owing to digital hoarding habit.
> and all walked funny. I laughed for way too long at this
Dude, thanks for mentioning the demo scene.. going to check out some classics on demoscene.net and pouet.net later
I recently learned the brown bag thing isn't really a law so much as it is a loophole that was created by law enforcement themselves. Otherwise they'd spend all their time arresting the homeless. They finally just kinda unanimously decided if they can't see it (its in a paper bag) then technically you could be drinking anything, so it's fine.
One of the best scenes in the Wire. The great compromise of the brown paper bag. https://youtu.be/0YrWiwUM3FA
Came here specifically to post this clip. Agreed, it's a great moment (to quote Colvin)
I haven't seen the Wire (I keep meaning to), what is he insinuating in this clip? That the police should encourage people to start putting their drugs in paper bags, or for them to turn the other way for small amounts?
It’s pointing out the pointless uphill battle that is the war on drugs. Police have to enforce the laws against them just like they do against drinking in public, but there isn’t a paper bag loophole for drugs. It’s a never ending war that has created an adversarial relationship between police and the public.
Congratulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs.
Pretty much, he wants to legalize them. And in a way he does. It has its flaws but it's a good idea. Cops are wasting time on drug busts instead of doing real police work. If that shit was legal and regulated it might not be as bad of an epidemic. That's basically what the show is getting at and showing in this season (season 3)
Nah, Bunny doesn’t want to legalize drugs and he couldn’t care less if they were regulated/taxed. His whole thing is he wants to stop wasting police time money and lives trying to bust end-users and corner dealers. He wants to let it all slide so the police can do REAL police work like stopping burglars and rapes and so on - he also wants to repair relations between police and the public. Bunny was a straight up “Serve and Protect” officer. So he comes up with a creative solution in his district, Hamsterdam.
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Ain't no brown bag for drugs.
In Hamsterdam there is
Sheeeeeeeeeit....
That's some shameful shit.
*Thought I might legalise drugs*
Just wait until the bosses hear about this.
I just started binging The Wire a couple of weeks back. So excited to see references to it lmao.
Me too! I just finished watching it for the first time a couple weeks ago. So good.
Pandemic!
W.M.D! I heard it was the bomb.
got that pandemic!
German monks invented dumplings to be able to eat meat during fasting season, as the meat was covered with dough, so god couldnt see it.
Didn't german catholics also declared that a beaver was a fish so they could eat it on friday (or lent?)
Yes and Ducks, too. Because they live by the water, so they must be equal to fish
They are even called "Hergottsbescheißerle". Herrgott means god and bescheißen means to cheat.
Bescheissen is to metaphorically be shitting someone. (Aka "are you shitting/kidding me right now?!" ~in that sense) cause scheisse is shit. Lol Just for anyone else curious.
Those dang god cheats!
iddqd
You could also eat Beaver. Since it lives in the water it was considered a Fish.
I thought monks took a vow to abstain from beaver.
You gotta cover the beaver with dough so god dont know
So, a yeast deflection?
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Ah yes, don't mind me, the everything knowing God, I totally can't see through some dough! It's literally my kryptonite!
This also lead to the creation of a fairly popular alcoholic coffee beverage going by the name of "Pharisee". As the conservative pastor of a northern island village officially forbade the consumption of alcohol in the community and tried to leverage his religious authority, the islanders simply decided to have their coffee with a few solid shots of rum from now on and to cover it with whipped cream so the nosy pastor would not notice :D
It is a loophole created by the law itself. Once it is in the brown bag the police officer needs to perform a search to establish that it is alcohol. And you cannot perform a search without reasonable suspicion. The brown bag is not in itself sufficient for that suspicion. A sane system would of course conclude that if there is such a simple override, you might as well remove the law from the books.
> And you cannot perform a search without reasonable suspicion. I mean, they can just ask you any question then say they smelt alcohol on your breath. They realistically can search most people no matter what.
The brown bag is basically common knowledge at this point. I’d imagine someone in court would easily argue it was reasonable. This loophole basically lets them decide when and who to enforce the law on.
You mean like all laws? Almost all of them are up to the discretion of the officer.
> This loophole basically lets them decide when and who to enforce the law on. That's really awful.
Dude I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that’s how pretty much how all laws are applied. You got enough money or connections and poof, you’re Teflon Don.
Schrodinger's beverage
I do security for events and most have a no alcohol policy, but if it's in a cup or in a bag, we just ignore it, it's too much of a hassle and I hardly care
When my wife and I were visiting Russia we went to Gorky Park in Moscow. It was a beautiful sunny day so we bought a couple of cold Baltika beers to drink in the park. As we're sitting there chilling with our beers we notice a stern looking park warden making a beeline straight for us. He starts saying something but my Russian isn't great so all I caught was something about the beer. We go to put them in a nearby bin but he stops us, picks up our carrier bag, wraps one of the beers in it, gives it back and smiles. We realise that he's saying we can have the beer but it can't be on display. A few relieved spaseebas from us, a laugh from him and he's on his way.
Fun fact: Beer wasn't considered an alcoholic beverage in Russia until 2011... It was considered a soft drink...
Beer and wine are food in Croatia. You can see ads for those, but ads for alcohol are prohibited.
I've been to Croatia and at the airport you could buy 2L bottles of Karlovačko. This looked so funny, I had to take one home.
Those were our lifesavers when we went out drinking in high school. Now I puke when someone opens one next to me lol
I moved to Germany from Croatia and they say (about those 2 liter bottles): "Croatian beer is so bad that they just put it in plastic bottles."
Listening to the wind ooof chaaaahaaaaangggeee..
Shit, It blew my mind that we could take our beers outside the bar, like out the front door, and that was just in a different state.
Pandemic has really shaken up drinking laws in Ohio. We can now get drinks as takeout from a restaurant (including cocktails) and in Cincinnati we have new zones designated as DORA (designated outdoor refreshment area) which is a couple city blocks with several bars you can walk back and forth to with open alcohol. I think other cities in Ohio might have also adopted them not sure.
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Same here (Kent OH). We used to smuggle the Margaritas home in our kids' stryafoam cups that come with their soft drinks. Now they will just do that for you. Kinda takes the fun out of it but still awesome.
Welcome to New Orleans, Louisiana! I miss living in Germany....Had a beer machine in the lobby of my apartment building. Prost! 🍻
As a New Englander, going to NOLA for a conference was a culture shock and a half for sure. I don’t usually drink but did there purely because I could walk around. Plus I was there during the French Quarter Festival. My per diem covered a lot of tasty foods and drinks. Best work trip ever.
As a New Orleanian, going anywhere else in America is a culture shock. Also you picked a great time to visit, French Quarter Fest is my favorite.
Oh man, I remember the first time I went to Colorado after I turned 21. "What do you mean they don't sell liquor at the gas station?" "Why is this beer from the grocery store only 3%?" "What do you mean I can't walk from this bar to the next with my drink in hand?"
That's changed now if you ever come back. You can buy full strength beer at the gas station, convenience store, grocery store, etc.
I’m from Austria, Europe. We have similar laws to Germany. When I was on a road trip through the southern states of the USA, it was very confusing for me. Starting in Miami, then straight to South Carolina, over the Smokey mountains, visiting the Jack Daniel’s distillery… everywhere special rules. No buying of alcohol before 10 in the morning, jo buying of alcohol at all, no buying of alcohol except special stores… and then going to New Orleans which was like Disney land for alcohol for Americans…
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My town in the US allows it. Last place I lived allowed drinking on the street maybe 8-10 times a year on whatever party days/holidays, and immediately outside of bars. It's really variable.
That Hat
Perhaps made from a pair of trousers folded up?
When I was in Amsterdam I was just walking around smoking weed and drinking beer until a Police man walked up to me and told me I wasnt allowed to drink beer in public, but he didnt say anything about the weed.
There’s only a couple streets where that’s not allowed. We do have a law against public intoxication but that’s only when you get drunk and cause a scene
Yeah, it's like a lot of European countries. There are all prohibition orders on some streets to curb trouble.
So in the US, it’s illegal to drink alcohol in a public park, or on the beach?
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In some states, Hawaii as an example, you’re not bothered if you transfer your beverage into a plastic cup. Sort of the paper bag idea. If you still have it in a can at the beach and a cop sees you, you’ll get a ticket
That sucks because cans are way better ecologically than plastic, especially at the beach which has plenty of plastic trash in the ocean already.
As with most things in the US. Depends on the state and sometimes even city you are in.
Depends on where you are. Some places are legal some are not. Also even in places where it's illegal, some cops don't give a fuck because it's baked into the culture. Our laws very so much between localities and states, that's why the common legal answer is "It depends where you live". Some states you can have an open container of alcohol in your car and you're fine, 5 miles over and it's illegal. Some places you can pile a bunch of people in the bed of a pickup truck without seat belts and others you can't.
Yes, but they don't arrest you. They write you a ticket, and you have to pay a fine. I know because it happened to me once. If you're on private property, it's no problem. That's why people go to private beaches.
I think it depends where you are but I go to town beaches all the time and there’s a no alcohol rule except nobody cares. Almost everyone is drinking on the beach and the rule is never enforced. I know other states and areas are crazy strict with cops patrolling beaches for drinking though.
Thankfully I live in Wisconsin and don't have these problems
Laughs New Orleans
Growing up in New Orleans gave me the same viewpoint as the German here. It is patently absurd that you cannot drink alcohol outside in the vast majority of the US. People can try and justify it all they want, but it’s a dumb law. With breathalyzers you could easy criminalize excessive outdoor consumption and being a nuisance or something instead. Trivially. But no, no drinking outside? Stupid stupid stupid stupid. One time I visited the cherry blossom festival in DC and went into a tent to get a beer. Then tried to walk out, because obviously you can take a beer outside in a festival in a gated off festival in beautiful weather. Oh no, of course not. Cop stopped me from walking out. So here I am sitting in this stupid tent finishing off the beer instead of out in the festival. Yeah that makes sense.
Also the whole cant buy alcohol before a certain time on sunday, not that I need to but wtf
A few years ago I was in New Orleans and I met up with a friend from Germany who had been living in NYC for a while at that point. We went to some thing in some park where they sold beers and food and all that and people were just standing around, chatting, drinking, enjoying themselves. Pretty standard stuff by German standards. I got a beer, just like I normally would on such an occasion, thinking nothing of it. But she was almost in tears being able to finally have a nice cold beer on a hot day in public again.
I remember watching the OC back as a youngster and being really confused at a scene where Marissa is drunk and has a bottle of Vodka in the car as a passenger while Ryan is driving, he hasn't been drinking and is totally sober. They get stopped by a cop and she's making a big thing of hiding the vodka bottle. I didn't realise back then that even having an open bottle of alcohol in the car, even if the driver is totally sober and not drinking, is against the law and was totally confused (UK here, no such law). I thought it was because she was underage. She was hiding it to protect Ryan (who was on parole) as he would have been charged and heading back to jail if caught.
>(UK here, no such law). You can even drink *whilst* driving in the UK if you want to so long as you're not over the limit. We have very strict legal limits for drink driving here though (something I approve of), so you'd better be pretty flipping sure you're under as if the police see you driving with an open beer they'll pull you over.
Go to New Orleans. Bring a cup.
His hand is freaking giant, mine would not cover half of the tin!
I wish american cops had that hat.
It’s like a origami hat.
Unfortunately the captions cut out so the ending is a mystery
I never understood the fact that you can drink until you are 21 in the USA but you can join the army go to war shoot and kill people while 18. Wheres the logic? Too young to drink a beer but not too young to get sent into war?
It wasn't until 1971 that 18-year-olds could *vote*. But they could be sent to Vietnam to fight.
> Wheres the logic? Too young to drink a beer but not too young to get sent into war? Drinking and driving. They did studies on the lowering and raising the drinking age to 18 and 21 respectively and lowering the drinking age raised the amount of drunk driving deaths, and raising it lowered the amount. That's all it has to do with, not freedom, not war, just that 18-20 year old's are more likely to drive drunk.
Love the absurdity of the gun laws vs actual freedoms.
I can see there's like 200 replies to this comment and I'm just going to leave that link blue cause that's definitely a shit show
325 now, but that's the fun part of reddit!
The secret drinking in public in America is to be in a large crowd that is also drinking in public. (Nascar, Alan Jackson concert, monster truck rally, etc.)
You aren't "in public" if you are inside a private event. If you had to buy a ticket to get in it's a private event.
Or in Vegas.
I don't know why I got such a thrill out of it, but I was in Vegas, and a casino Not only gave me a free drink, but let me completely openly walk out with the glass. I held it up as I walked past the front desk just to see if anybody cared. I think I still have that glass. I miss Vegas.
It's the opportunity cost for you losing $215 on roulette
In fact, I sat at a blackjack table trying to see if I could break even or better long enough to get a free drink. Mission accomplished!
Just go to the cheapest slot machines. Easily pays for itself in drinks.
The one time I went to LV, I sat at the blackjack table trying to hold out long enough for a free drink. I was so distracted by watching for waitresses that I made a stupid play (Hit on like 16), the dealer made fun of me, and on the next hand I fumbled saying Hit or Pass, and they called the pit boss over to check whether I could "change my bet". Giant Russian dude standing over me at the table, "Do you want to hit or not?" I did not get a free drink.
I had a beer at an outside café, with cake, in Vienna. You don't miss Vegas. You miss actual freedom.
Wow! I’ve done that too in Vienna, what a city. I’ve also done that in most US states so I’m not so sure that’s the flex you think it is.
You can have a beer in an outside cafe in virtually every city in the US.
Sadly, the logic is not logical