“‘I always say the safe bet, if you drive, is not to drink at all,’ Burke said. ‘But even looking from a D.C. tourism standpoint, we’d be killing ourselves if we were saying you can’t go out and have a glass of wine with dinner. That’d be ridiculous. So we tell people, you have to know your limits.’”

In other words, they lied by letting tourists believe they could not be arrested for having a glass of wine with dinner in order to help tourism (and thus, to ensure a wasteful government does not lose money). It’s a form of entrapment by estoppell, really.

After the french fry policy, and now this, I have to wonder what’s wrong with people in D.C. And I thought liberal governments were supposed to be enlightened. (?)