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Bar Patrons Arrested for Being Drunk

Heidig, who was at the bar Champps with a group of his work colleagues, complied. After failing a breath test designed to test his sobriety, Heidig was loaded into a van and taken to jail on charges of public intoxication.
Civil libertarians are saying the police have gone too far, and restaurant and bar owners fear that the raids are scaring away their customers who are drinking responsibly.
When police came to the bar in mid-Decembe "it looked like a full-scale invasion, with seven squad cars pulling up and 12 officers walking in single-file".