Everybody knows it’s phenomenally stupid to drive drunk.  But did you know you can also get arrested for being drunk . . . while WALKING?

No, I’m serious.  Last Saturday, police in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania (–in the central part of the state, about 20 miles northwest of Harrisburg), set up a traffic checkpoint in an attempt to nail drunken drivers and it worked.  The police arrested two people for driving under the influence. 

But they also arrested two people who they caught WALKING through the checkpoint area . . . for public drunkenness.  (???)

So let’s see if I have this straight.  You can’t drive drunk . . . but you can’t walk while drunk either?  In other words, the only legal way to get home if you’re wasted is to call a taxi or get a ride from a sober friend?  Does that make any sense at all?

I mean, I get it.  New Bloomfield cops don’t want their streets filled with hordes of rowdy drunks.  But if the alternative is that these people get behind the wheel of a car . . . I might let them slide on this “public drunkenness” nonsense.  Priorities, people!