.. and one alias Tater Salad

/was drunk in private; they threw me in public

Ah, mass detentions. Why do you arrest people at a bar? Because that's where the drunks are money is.

xanadian: [Asinine] is an understatement. Does the law in Houston honestly believe people should just be drinking TEA in bars or something!?

I'm torn. On the one hand, pulling a stunt like this shows that the Houston police have nothing better to do than arrest 130 people who weren't hurting anybody.

On the other hand, if you do a google search and look at the pictures of this club, you'll see a bunch of toolbags making guido faces at the cameras. They deserve to be arrested just for sucking so badly.

if you do a google search and look at the pictures of this club, you'll see a bunch of toolbags making guido faces at the cameras.

Bake him away, toys...

SchlingFo: On the other hand, if you do a google search and look at the pictures of this club, you'll see a bunch of toolbags making guido faces at the cameras. They deserve to be arrested just for sucking so badly.

I believe it was Ben Franklin that said, "I do not agree with your spray on tan, bad dance moves, and gold necklaces, but I will defend to the death your right to look like a massive douchenozzle."

rocinante721: .. and one alias Tater Salad

/was drunk in private; they threw me in public

It's worse than that. These people never left the bar. The bar was the "public."

what a bunch of asses

SchlingFo: xanadian: [Asinine] is an understatement. Does the law in Houston honestly believe people should just be drinking TEA in bars or something!?

I'm torn. On the one hand, pulling a stunt like this shows that the Houston police have nothing better to do than arrest 130 people who weren't hurting anybody.

On the other hand, if you do a google search and look at the pictures of this club, you'll see a bunch of toolbags making guido faces at the cameras. They deserve to be arrested just for sucking so badly.

*sound of record skipping*

Wait, there are guidos in Texas? How the hell do they avoid violence? People in Texas shoot things that are weird like that.

That's almost like poaching ...

From reviews:This ho infested club was featured on Houston's FOX 26 News for bein raided just last night where a couple peeps was arrested for sellin drugs and possession. One goof even stole a ambulance and later crashed it into a pole tryin to evade arrest. Its hard to escape from tha popos wit loud ass sirens goin off, leadin them right to where you are. Other than the raids & the 25 fire/health code violations dis ho be bumpin!!!!! :D

i wish there was a video of the wambulance chase...

The article I read also mentioned drugs and fire code violations.

Another WIN for the War on Drugs™!

Oh, and FTA::

Houston police sent an undercover officer into the Pink Monkey Club on Louisiana and Franklin and they say he was able to buy drugs. That led to the raid.

The raid was a drug bust (they nabbed 10 on drug charges) - they just needed justification for detaining people.

Fish ... barrel ...

Hey a police raid that lead to 2% of the detained being arrested for actual crimes with a sprinkling of minor arrests to make it look like they aren't douchebags for hold 500 people hostage while they looked for 10 people.

I'm shocked!

Howard Finkelstein:
Wait, there are guidos in Texas? How the hell do they avoid violence? People in Texas shoot things that are weird like that.

Ah yes, maybe in the good ol' days, but not anymore.

CatJumpJohn: I believe it was Ben Franklin that said, "I do not agree with your spray on tan, bad dance moves, and gold necklaces, but I will defend to the death your right to look like a massive douchenozzle."

I think even Ben would have taken a look at some of these massive douchnozzles and personally pulled the trigger on the tazer. There are limits.

I don't understand why people are being charged with public intoxication for drinking in what they believed to be a legal bar. If actual crimes are being committed (drug charges, code violatation) then fine, arrest people. But why arrest people who are just drinking in a bar? Does not compute.

That club is farking disgusting.

Okay, real quick. I was very involved in the first round of downtown revitalization. For those of you that are not from here, the black gangstas and MS13 mambers have been fighting it out on this block of downtown for a couple of years and have killed business for most of the other bar owners and restaurants that don't let this kind fo trash in. This needs to happen every weekend until these people leave. All ages nightclubs filled with gangs and drunk 18 year olds are the problem, not the Houston police. I wish they would have started this before 90% of the businesses down there had to shut their doors. Too little too late if you ask me.

Also, just so you know, if you're in Iowa City and get arrested for Public Intox, you can get it expunged after two years. If you're in Iowa City and get arrested for PAULA, you cannot get it expunged without a really good reason no matter what the police tell you.

When I lived up there the cops would tell their PAULA (possession under legal age) victims that they'd just get it expunged after two years. Two years later they came to the office where I was working and we had to give them the bad news.

Here we go again with this BS. The TABC is evil.

Hey, who thinks it would be just hilarious if some judge compelled the sheriff to raid the COP bar and do the same thing!

/turnabout, meet fair play

Fark I need to read before I hit Add Comment.

GOD BLESS AMERICA LAND OF FREE (to do as we're told)!

Just think. The Houston Police prevent 130 people from getting behind the wheel of their vehicle and possibly killing someone.

The public intoxication charges will be thrown out of court. It will merely cause the undesirables to show up (hopefully) dressed up.

Nice police work indeed.

How do you legally detain 500 people because one person, wait sorry, 10 people after mass police searches, were in possession of drugs, that is still only 2% of the club that had drugs, but they had to arrest 130, a quarter more of the club, for something in order to justify an unwarranted mass detention!
This is simply ridiculous

In unrelated news there was a shoot out in the parking lot of this club two weekends ago.

Jument: But why arrest people who are just drinking in a bar? Does not compute.

The TABC has been pulling this kind of crap for a while.

They had a habit of going into bars and issuing breathalyzers.

The biatch in charge of the TABC, after receiving mountains of hate mail said, "I don't understand all the hatred towards me. I don't understand 'Die in a fire'."

This is nothing new in Houston.

Cops like to do this kind of stuff. I had a friend who was coaxed out of his house by police once, and subsequently arrested for being drunk in public. Farking assholes.

This happens all the time here. Typically, the police walk in at 1:30, take your drink out of your hand and tell you go to home. Any lip and you WILL end up in the drunk tank for the night. They also like to place undercover TLC agents who will ticket/arrest anyone they see visibly drunk or simply wait for that 19 year old to grab a shot with everyone else so they can have them arrested. This explains why I haven't bothered going out in a LONG time. The nightlife is fun but could be a bit dangerous.

DaSwankOne: All ages nightclubs filled with gangs and drunk 18 year olds are the problem, not the Houston police.

If you're arresting people for being drunk in public while in a bar, you're doing it wrong.

RoxtarRyan: Yep.. if people keep on being arrested for being drunk in a bar, trust me... No one will show up.

Good. I am pretty sure that you boys are pretty hard up in the Connecticut suburbs and all, but down here gang problems do not consist of a couple of white teens spray painting the back of a convenience store.

DaSwankOne: Okay, real quick. I was very involved in the first round of downtown revitalization. For those of you that are not from here, the black gangstas and MS13 mambers have been fighting it out on this block of downtown for a couple of years and have killed business for most of the other bar owners and restaurants that don't let this kind fo trash in. This needs to happen every weekend until these people leave. All ages nightclubs filled with gangs and drunk 18 year olds are the problem, not the Houston police. I wish they would have started this before 90% of the businesses down there had to shut their doors. Too little too late if you ask me.

It would be one thing if they were busting underaged kids for drinking but from the article it appears they were arresting people who were of age. If they are going into clubs and busting people who are 21 and over the Houston police are the problem in my book.

SchlingFo: If you're arresting people for being drunk in public while in a bar, you're doing it wrong.

It is against the law to drink in a bar when you are under 21 in Texas whether you are inside or out.

liam76: It would be one thing if they were busting underaged kids for drinking but from the article it appears they were arresting people who were of age. If they are going into clubs and busting people who are 21 and over the Houston police are the problem in my book.

Why don't you tough guy Farkers fly down to Houston and go party at TOC or Pink Monkey one weekend and if you are man enough to hang out there until closing and you make it out alive or without suffering a brutal assault, I will buy you breakfast.

DaSwankOne: It is against the law to drink in a bar when you are under 21 in Texas whether you are inside or out.

I didn't say anything about underage consumption.

The police arrested people for public intox while in the bar. Not for underage drinking.

The TABC started the trend of mass arrests in bars for public intox.

It's bullshiat.

DaSwankOne: SchlingFo: If you're arresting people for being drunk in public while in a bar, you're doing it wrong.

It is against the law to drink in a bar when you are under 21 in Texas whether you are inside or out.

No need to bring logic into this.

DaSwankOne: SchlingFo: If you're arresting people for being drunk in public while in a bar, you're doing it wrong.

It is against the law to drink in a bar when you are under 21 in Texas whether you are inside or out.

That is true but the article makes no mention of underage drinking just PI

Fapinator: The article I read also mentioned drugs and fire code violations.

Another WIN for the War on Drugs™!
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A policeman was able to buy drugs at or around a club? I am shocked and chagrinned! So, if they go to a McDonalds and they find a clown eating a Big Mac who has the ganja for sale, do they raid the Mickey D's?

Is it the club-owners responsibility to make everyone leave their dope at home?

DaSwankOne: Why don't you tough guy Farkers fly down to Houston and go party at TOC or Pink Monkey one weekend and if you are man enough to hang out there until closing and you make it out alive or without suffering a brutal assault, I will buy you breakfast.

Then, arrest the people who are causing problems.

If they're fighting or trying to shoot someone, arrest them.

But, if the only crime is being drunk at a bar, I'm looking at a life sentence for my violations.

DaSwankOne: Why don't you tough guy Farkers fly down to Houston and go party at TOC or Pink Monkey one weekend and if you are man enough to hang out there until closing and you make it out alive or without suffering a brutal assault, I will buy you breakfast.

What the F does that have to do with anything? Just because an area is filled with ghetto trash you think the police should bend the rules to arrest them?

If there are real gang problems there the police should have plenty of reasons to arrest them, pulling thei public drunkedness BS in a private bar isn't going to stop real crime.

SchlingFo: The TABC started the trend of mass arrests in bars for public intox.

It's bullshiat.

I am sorry that I just have to disagree with this one. We are not talking about a pub where nice college kids go to do shots and get laid. I am for whatever it takes to get this shiat out of this area. It has killed all of the legitimate businesses down there. These people know what kind of place they are going to and that there is plenty of illegal activity going on. Hell that is why most of them are there. I am telling you this place is a shiathole that needs to go.

Oakland A's FTW!: No need to bring logic into this.

There's no mention of arrests for underage drinking. The arrests were for public intox while in a bar.

DaSwankOne: RoxtarRyan: Yep.. if people keep on being arrested for being drunk in a bar, trust me... No one will show up.

Good. I am pretty sure that you boys are pretty hard up in the Connecticut suburbs and all, but down here gang problems do not consist of a couple of white teens spray painting the back of a convenience store.

I refuse to believe there is a gang problem in Texas...not with those hardass texas rangers like chuck norris! YEE HAW!