I’m thinking in the U.S. and Canada. For example, if you’re on vacation, you’ve checked out of your hotel room and have several hours until your flight, and you have some cans of beer left over. I know you could sneakily drink them in a park or something, but I’m just curious if there’s any way to do it that’s legal.
Upvoted for understanding everyone on this website isn’t American and referencing the countries specific to this discussion clearly in the main body of the question
Rest of the world wondering what kind of Freedom©®™ makes it illegal to drink outside?!? 😂
I first found out about this while trying to leave a bar with a bottle of beer when I was 22. I was like, “dude, I’m not wasting this, so you’re telling me I have to get smashed for the next few minutes if I was to leave the bar without wasting my drink?”
I do this all the time. I’m in the US and I like to smoke cigarettes when I drink. Can’t smoke inside so I just find an outdoor area, usually near a smoker’s post, and just start drinking. No hotel staff have ever mentioned it to me in the dozen-or-so times I’ve done it. I usually stay out pretty late too. Around midnight. Disclaimers: IANAL and I’m sure I could be ticketed or even arrested depending on the state if an officer saw me doing this.
Not that I know of, only best option I have found is getting the largest coffee cup with top you can find and fill that up with beer. Also make sure there is a place to pee.
get a really large cup and you solve the last problem with the first
Drinking laws are local, or at least county level in most places. My town doesn’t have any about drinking in public at all, just about drunkenness. The next town over is no public drinking at all, not even on your porch.
So there’s no single answer, it will depend on where your are within the US. Couldn’t say anything about Canada though, never been and don’t know enough.
Be warned though, you may not be able to board a flight if you’re drunk.
The next town over is no public drinking at all, not even on your porch.
Ah, freedom.
Don’t like the laws in your town? Your free to petition to change them.
I’ve lived in places with drive-through liquor stores where I could buy a gin and tonic in a styrofoam cup and drive away.
Oh dude, I’m Finnish.
We have everyman’s rights.
It makes me giggle a bit that the US, which frequently has fits about “freedom” is such an authoritarian state you can’t even drink on your own porch.
