If you haven't seen these, they look almost exactly like beer bottles without a label, and they have zero alcohol in them.

The cool thing about the bottle cap idea, is you can drink right in front of the cops… just be sure to put the cap back on after every sip. If the cops ask you what you're drinking, do not answer. If you were to say "beer" that in and of itself could prove their case against you.

When all they know is you're drinking something that looks like beer out of a beer bottle… there is reasonable doubt that you could have put something else in it.

You wouldn't even have to testify. All you'd have to do is ask the police if it was POSSIBLE that you replaced the liquid within with something that looks like and even smells like liquor, which was not. Like I said before, unless they saw you break the ORIGINAL seal of the container… they would have to say that it WAS possible. That is unless they spent hours getting a search warrant and hours transporting the beer bottle to Concord for the Department of Safety forensic lab to test it. Only THEN could they definately say it WAS without-a-doubt alcohol.

The judge would have no choice but to find you not-guilty unless they did all the leg work.

BAM! Huge was of taxpayers dollars…. and a battle I'm willing to bet the police will not want to make.

Come open-carry in Central Square:

Beer bottles with screw-on tops

Filled with water, or tea, or air–

Let's screw around with the cops!

Come, every liberty activist!

The laws are wrong, and we must resist!

Today's the civil disobedience pic-nic!

Every liberty-lover knows

The government wants us chained.

Let's demonstrate that oppression's foes

Can't openly be contained!

In day or dark, enjoying the park,

Defy the snarling, quarrelsome narc.

Today's the civil disobedience pic-nic!

Picnic time for porcupines!

The active porcupines are showing how peaceful they can be.

Roughed and cuffed and charged with fines,

And they ignore them–Wow, what bravery!

They don't bow to prudes' outrage;

We're nearing a free new age,

And this is one of the signs.

Before too long, the statist oppressors

Will slink away for good,

And we can thank courageous porcupines.

There's fun and frolic in Keene today.

We're merry as Santa's elves,

Till cops get bored and come out our way

To start some trouble themselves.

We won't sit placidly on our cans

Our lives are ours, and not The Man's

Today's the civil disobedience pic-nic!

I assume that was why the officer carried the Bud can off with him in the car…

I can see your point about the open botlee verse closed. Don't you think they will just watch the group drink beer and then await you to drive off, cage you for DWI?

Easily avoidable by simply not driving to Central Square.

Same as not being arrested for bare boobs, or painting bare boobs, but instead caged the girl for the drinking of beer…

I get what you're saying. I disagree that the indecent exposure law was violating by painting a breast….. I think we'll be seeing a not-guilty finding.

Same as not being arrested for bare boobs, or painting bare boobs, but instead caged the girl for the drinking of beer with bare boobs… (quite nice one's I might add)

It worked last year when I was quoted in a story by of all people, Melanie Plenda from the Manchester Union Leader stating to her that there was "fakey bakey" about the square. The same day that the story was printed they busted one of our own who had lit up some chocolate mint leaves that smelled nice enough to Officer Friendly, to convince the hapless gendarme that he had a "lawbreaker".

Oh boy, was he barking up the wrong stump. The officer decided to place a pair of matching silver bracelets on the kindly gentleman smoking this said bakey, not realizing the level of fakey rolled up in them there joints.

It must have been incredibly embarrassing to the Keene, NH police. Our man was released from their foul honeycomb hideout before activists were able to walk from Central Square down to the police station. Lots of folks noticed that for the most part, the lawmen of Keene decided to leave people alone on the square after that.