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Originally Posted by jar_e
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.
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Where did I say that "everyone who gets a public intoxication ticket was going to drive home with a DD or a cab?"??
The point remains that people are apparently getting tickets while waiting to do the right thing. Like you said we have limited info, but if true this comes down to another case of failure to use discretion. If people are causing problems by all means give them a ticket, I've already said that in this thread. If people are standing around drunk waiting for a cab there's no need to ticket. Seems pretty simple.