OMG UPDATE: Question? Answer.

Updated on Friday, July 25

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QUESTION: Public intoxication in Ontario.

Reading up into it officers basically have the right to ticket and detain you if they so feel like it.

Can somebody explain why I shouldn't worry about this?

12 comments

  1. AnonymousJuly 25, 2014 at 6:21 PM

    don't be an idiot and no cop will have just cause to detain you

    and if they do then a lucrative civil suit would be in your near future

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  2. AnonymousJuly 25, 2014 at 6:51 PM

    In Ontario you have to be substantially intoxicated to be fined, and intoxicated to the point of being a danger to yourself or others to be arrested.

    The police are not going to detain you unless you give them an explicit reason to. You shouldn't worry about it.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 25, 2014 at 7:21 PM

    They put you in the drunk tank till you sober up and worry for a few hours

    then they let you go

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  4. AnonymousJuly 26, 2014 at 12:02 AM

    You gotta be rowdy and unresting the civil order of things for that to get enforced

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  5. AnonymousJuly 26, 2014 at 3:32 AM

    Also depends where you are. My friend was arrested in Grand Bend for being publicly intoxicated, although he was not being a danger to himself or others. Also will depend on if a cop feels like ruining your night.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 27, 2014 at 3:16 AM

    As an ARBUS major who wants to go into Law, I know that as long as you always ask, "Am I being detained?" then it doesn't matter how intoxicated you are or how much you are slurring your words, the police cannot do anything to you. Just my two cents :)

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  7. AnonymousJuly 27, 2014 at 11:47 AM

    Then don't get black out drunk and do shit you'll regret

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  8. AnonymousJuly 28, 2014 at 4:43 PM

    Well if you follow the law, you won't have a reason to worry about it.

    And if you don't follow the law, you don't have a reason to worry about it if you don't act like a drunk douchebag.

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  9. AnonymousJuly 30, 2014 at 8:44 PM

    If you're not acting drunk, they won't know. If you are acting drunk, you shouldn't be in public anyway.

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    1. AnonymousJuly 30, 2014 at 9:57 PM

      Lol, have you ever left a bar or a friends house without going into public?

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