Originally Posted by
irwin7638
Regardless of the symantics or the driver's BAC, you witnessed a driver using a car with an open container of alcohol. That's worth reporting and illegal to do everywhere I can think of.
Yes, but the point was that the police seem to take a report of "drunk driver" far more seriously than "he threw something at me". (How effective "he has an open container" is is uncertain, though I'd expect it to be less effective than either of these.)
(Devil's advocate: and "open container of alcohol", well, it's not a crime for him to have an open container if it's empty. And he doesn't have it any more, does he? (Of course, littering and assault should still be crimes.))