according to Fort Wayne’s News Sentinel<\/i><\/a>, the city council has already voted today to improve the wording of the law, with a change to be implemented as early as next week. I haven’t found a copy of the actual wording, but I’m curious if it is indeed as broad as it seems. Are there any qualifiers to the word “container”? Could a car itself be considered a container? Which would mean, of course, it’s unlawful to drive a convertible within the city limits. And it might even be illegal to open your doors and exit your vehicle. If so, the next week might be fun to watch.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The intent of the Fort Wayne law was to tighten up a restriction that allowed open containers of alcohol in a vehicle if the driver’s blood alcohol level was below 0.04. But in not specifying what open containers … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wtf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The intent of the Fort Wayne law was to tighten up a restriction that allowed open containers of alcohol in a vehicle if the driver’s blood alcohol level was below 0.04. But in not specifying<\/i> what open containers they were banning, the Fort Wayne lawmakers made it illegal to have a bottle of water in your car, or a travel mug of coffee, a drive-thru burger, or even your groceries! Fortunately, according to Fort Wayne’s News Sentinel<\/i><\/a>, the city council has already voted today to improve the wording of the law, with a change to be implemented as early as next week. I haven’t found a copy of the actual wording, but I’m curious if it is indeed as broad as it seems. Are there any qualifiers to the word “container”? Could a car itself be considered a container? Which would mean, of course, it’s unlawful to drive a convertible within the city limits. And it might even be illegal to open your doors and exit your vehicle. If so, the next week might be fun to watch.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"