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from the time your in line to the time your camp is finally set up takes quite a while, and feels like an eternity. do you know of a better way to pass time?
How about crossword puzzles? Or Soduko that's really popular with you kids today, right? Or you could write a letter to your congressman, telling him how much open container laws suck. Masturbat!on is a good way to pass time too.
Jerkin it in a car will probably get you in more trouble than drinking
I have drank in line at a couple of the roos and all the phish fests that i went to, however there was considerably longer wait at phish and much less security. I know its illegal, but i've never had a problem with it.
Tennessee's open container law applies to the driver only. There is currently a legislative proposal to make the laws more strict for the passengers, but currently, it does not aplly to passengers.
i agree with r00fanintn. i had this discussion with someone else before and found these links that seem to say that it is ok for passengers to drink.
I'm just goin on what I've been told by Murfreesboro PD. If cops think this is the correct law, whatever links you find on the internet are gonna be a moot point while they write you a ticket, hassle the crap out of you, and get in the way of you having a fun roo. By all means, if you can't wait to get to the farm to start partying, go right ahead. Just don't come back here and complain about how you got arrested for something else because the police were drawn to your open container.
Regardless of what a cop thinks, the law is the law. IT IS NOT illegal to drink as the passenger.
Now granted, I am not telling anyone to do this, I am simply pointing out the laws in Tennessee, and as it stand right now, there is no open container law in TN for passengers.
Do what you will, we all know how cops are and they will fvck with you over anything if they think they can get away with it. Obviously you will have to put up with the hassle, but in the end...you can not be punished for a non-existant crime...
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you guys might be on to something here... if a cop walks up to your car and it's stuffed to the brim with 4 or 5 guys all drunk and masterbating (except for the sober masturbating driver) is he really gonna ask them to step out of the vehicle so he can rummage through there?
Maybe it's just a job which they'd send Officer Farva out to do the search ;D
Say car Ram-Rod
Hey, let's pop some Viagras and issue tickets with raging megahuge boners
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I have drank in line at a couple of the roos and all the phish fests that i went to, however there was considerably longer wait at phish and much less security. I know its illegal, but i've never had a problem with it.
Did you go to Coventry??? We were in traffic for 35 hours.. um.. yea, we were drinking in that line.. a couple times. LOL My GF was worried, until we came across a Rave on the highway with people dancing all along the interstate.. that kinda trumped two people discretly having a beer.
Moral of the story.. stick around crazier people and no one notices what you're up to!!
I was definitely at Coventry, that was a wild line, but IT was even worse. We had to navigate around cars with people passed out at the steering wheel, people throwing up out of car windows, fun stuff.
So, try and find people throwing up out of car windows and unless that's you then they won't notice you either.
I sincerely do not want to be argumentative (honest; just trying to help), but local laws are capable of taking precedence over state laws (think about back when there were dry counties that dotted various state maps where you couldn't buy alcohol at all). Can anyone speak to local Coffee County/Manchester ordinances? If in fact the Manchester Police are claiming that they have the right to arrest under more restrictive circumstances than TN state law allows, it may be due to local municipal code provisions. Until someone speaks to the local laws in effect, I'd be careful about presuming you're safe just because you're complying with the state laws. Again, apologies. I don't know the answer on this one. Just pointing out that the question exists.
Regardless of what a cop thinks, the law is the law. IT IS NOT illegal to drink as the passenger.
Now granted, I am not telling anyone to do this, I am simply pointing out the laws in Tennessee, and as it stand right now, there is no open container law in TN for passengers.
Do what you will, we all know how cops are and they will fvck with you over anything if they think they can get away with it. Obviously you will have to put up with the hassle, but in the end...you can not be punished for a non-existant crime...
Punishment comes in many forms. Cops and courts are experts in administering it to the innocent. You can be punished for existing. Never forget that.
Nope. Open container laws in TN are strict to the point of silliness. Not only can a passenger not have an open container, any missing drink from a pack, say you have 5 beers left out of a 6 pack because you drank one in New Hampshire and threw away the empty in Virginia, is still considered an open container. Be careful, and don't start partying until you're past the ticket checkpoint!
Sorry bud, but this is incorrect information.
Tennessee's open container law applies to the driver only. There is currently a legislative proposal to make the laws more strict for the passengers, but currently, it does not aplly to passengers.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A legislative proposal for a stricter open-container law in Tennessee could allow state officials to spend more money on infrastructure projects instead of safety programs.
State officials say that about $15 million of road-building money is currently diverted because the state rules don't meet with federal standards. About $12 million of that federal money is instead directed to the state's road safety programs.
It's currently illegal for any driver to drink while driving, but the law doesn't apply to passengers. A bill advancing out of committee in the House on Tuesday would expand the ban to anybody riding in a vehicle.
The bill sponsored by Rep. Jon Lundberg, a Bristol Republican, would lift the limitations on how the state spends the federal road money
I read that the new legislation was passed, but that the law doesn't go into affect until July 1, therefore not coinciding with Roo. However I was also lead to understand that while this law not pertaining to passengers is indeed the state law, that most counties have their own laws which are much stricter. Is that true?
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I sincerely do not want to be argumentative (honest; just trying to help), but local laws are capable of taking precedence over state laws (think about back when there were dry counties that dotted various state maps where you couldn't buy alcohol at all). Can anyone speak to local Coffee County/Manchester ordinances? If in fact the Manchester Police are claiming that they have the right to arrest under more restrictive circumstances than TN state law allows, it may be due to local municipal code provisions. Until someone speaks to the local laws in effect, I'd be careful about presuming you're safe just because you're complying with the state laws. Again, apologies. I don't know the answer on this one. Just pointing out that the question exists.
Definitely wise advice, and no need to apologizing for providing it! I, for one, hadn't even thought of the possibility of conflicting local and state laws and I'm sure I'm not the only one either
I read that the new legislation was passed, but that the law doesn't go into affect until July 1, therefore not coinciding with Roo. However I was also lead to understand that while this law not pertaining to passengers is indeed the state law, that most counties have their own laws which are much stricter. Is that true?
That is my understanding. Certainly, counties or localities are allowed to enforce more draconian alcohol restrictions if their own county or municipal ordinances are written that way. I simply don't know what the laws of Coffee County are; just that they are free to make them more restrictive than state laws happen to be. Without actually knowing the local laws of county in which I was at a given time, I'd be extremely careful about open containers.
ETA: Thanks, strumntheguitar! I just don't want to come off as some sort of combative know-it-all. I really don't know. Just want people to be safe!