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Originally Posted by cappyjon431
At first I thought, what's the big deal if someone sits in their cart and drinks? Then I had to ask myself, is it ok for someone to sit in their auto in a parking lot outside of a bar with an open container? In the second instance, I had to say "no," it is not ok.
I think the question has to be where do you draw the line? Open container laws have been on the books as long as I can remember. I never had a problem with these laws in the past, so why get upset that they choose to enforce them in TV now that I live here?
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Who's upset with it? It just should be clearly posted what is the limits of this law in this community of The Villages that allows you to drink on the streets unlike any town anywhere I've ever been it. It's clarity that's the issue here.
The boundaries of this allowable open container law is always changing. Is it just the boundaries of the sidewalk surrounding the square? Where is that posted?
When they have affairs in the square they sell alcohol in the street itself, for Pete's sake, and you're allowed to drink almost anywhere, it seems. Do they ever post information on where the boundaries are then? When Glenn Beck was here there was a beer truck past the square and across from Southern Lifestyles.
When someone is booked to speak, at say Barnes & Noble as Sen. Rubio was, the put up a bar kiosk and now that's a place for allowable open containers. Is there any postings on that exception and what the limits of that "open container boundary" is?
This thread devolved into a place for all the Carrie Nation's of TV to vent on their disproval of the devil's brew, and I'm half expecting them to come to the square with their brooms and hatchets.
I just want clarity. Is that too much to ask?