<p>A friend of mine was once arrested for having “open alcohol” because he was walking around with a styrofoam cup with the STAIN of a blueberry daiquiri in it. He had finished the drink but didn’t want to litter. He was handcuffed and spent hours in jail. BTW he was never charged with public intoxication and never given a breathalyser - it was the stupid CUP! </p>
<p>Idiotic, but cops can decide to do many things if they wish. Here is DC, they famously rounded up protesters, ordered them to disburse, didn’t let them disburse, and then arrested them for not obeying a police order. The protesters were handcuffed and held on buses for more than 24 hours (to keep them from causing trouble at the World Bank meetings). Years later, the taxpayers of DC had to pay millions to this large group of people, and the chief of police had to write a public apology that was printed in all the local newspaper. I have it saved.</p>
<p>In the case of my friend, his father is a writer, and wrote a dips*it cop from a certain jurisdiction in CA into his next few novels.</p>