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It is illegal to walk drunk down the street without a sober chaperone.

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Added: 2026/3/18

The Law

Rather than just arresting everyone for public intoxication, an old Tennessee statute suggested a surprisingly pragmatic solution: a heavily intoxicated person could legally walk home, provided they had a sober person walking alongside them to keep them out of traffic. It was a neighborly approach to handling drunken revelry before modern drunk driving laws took precedence.

Source & Citation

Code/Statute: T.C.A. § 39-17-310
Tennessee Public Intoxication Statutes

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