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Originally Posted by valo403
Really? Because it seems to me that the police are targeting people who are doing what MADD asks them to do, which is not drink and drive. I don't expect police to allow drunks to hang out on the street all night, but people waiting for cabs and drivers at bar closing time are doing the right thing and being punished for it.
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So everyone who gets a public intoxication ticket was going to drive home with a DD or a cab? And really, that should have no bearing on why police would write that ticket anyways.
There's limited info in that article (which reads more as an opinion piece than a news article) so I'm not saying police did the right thing or not. But if its anything like in Calgary...you'd need to be causing some sort of issue for police to write such a ticket.
Edit: and furthermore I think its a stretch to say police are "targeting" people waiting for DD's, cabs, etc. People were getting these tickets long before this story came out too.