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Do growlers count as open containers?
Ian, your attempt at public service might have the opposite effect. Your fundamental error is asking a cop the intricacies of a law that he will never be arrested for. No cop gets arrested for open container - nor DUI, for that matter - unless there is an accident. Even then, there are many exceptions. "Hogwash!", you say? This week there is a video going viral of a cop assaulting and kidnapping an on-duty Emergency Room Nurse, while three other cops stand by and watch. What makes you imagine the cops who find this acceptable, when witnesses abound, will finally be moved to act when they find one of their buddies on the side of the road with a half full growler? Billy Hernandez of the SDPD even confirms that cops have complete disregard for the law. The law states that containers with a broken seal or, lacking a seal, with contents removed, will be stored in the trunk. Billy says he has no problem putting these items in the back seat of his car, a clear violation. "But how do I prevent getting arrested?" That's the point, isn't it. The truth is, just like the ER Nurse who broke no law, you can't. Billy Hernandez even confirms this. He says, even if police know that your growler has had no contents removed, they can "technically" arrest you. Since a citation is a sworn statement, Billy is admitting that the police can lie. And there is nothing you or I or anyone else can do about that.— September 5, 2017 3:15 p.m.
San Ysidro border wait now an hour on a good day
The problem is not too few lanes or too few border crossings. If I get there at three am and 4 out of 22 lanes are open with a 1 hour wait, the problem is too few inspectors. Typically this is the case. At 4 am, 2 more lanes open, still a 1 hour wait. People who don't want the wear and tear and fuel cost from the 1 hour of stop-and-go will park their car in front of a closed lane and sleep for 1 hour until 5 am when Customs goes to 19 of 22 lanes open. Waits during rush hour are always greater than 1 hour. On weekends, multiply all the wait times by 2. It's hard to imagine Oprah or Rush Limbaugh coming back home in their private jets from a weekend in the Bahamas to a 2-4 hour Customs line.....or any first class passengers, who are always first off the plane. I fly coach and my US Customs wait is typically less than 15 minutes. Customs knows that if they made our pampered elite wait in line for 4 hours, they'd be hearing about it, fast. But a bunch of ATV riders, partiers, shoppers and Mexican workers are not going to squawk about it. But they should. Because there is no way this policy of under-manning the border is going to change without enough people raising hell about it. The Govinator is building his toll road to a undermanned Customs station in Timbuktoo. The GAO is paving over parking to build search lanes that won't be used. Not until they budget for more inspectors.— December 29, 2008 5:56 p.m.