[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Shin Pad

I don't think it's a good idea. Sure, at a picnic, most adults will have a few beers or a few glasses or wine or whatever. The problem is there will also be times when there ends up being a big party, with lots of drunks, loud music, broken glass and general all around rowdiness. Not a good mix with families trying to enjoy the park.

Except being rowdy and breaking glass are already, and still won't be allowed.
Drinking in public isn't a problem, being a drunken ass in public is a problem.
And the kind of people who are going to be drunken asses, generally aren't too concerned with the legality of having a few beers at a picnic site.

Ultimately, this doesn't really affect me. My wife and I already pretty regularly bring a bottle of wine along on picnics to public parks, and we aren't jerks so it's never a problem, but I like the idea of changing these laws so that adults, who are acting like adults don't have to worry about the possibility of having to dump out a bottle of wine should a cop wander by.