In New Orleans, unlike anywhere else in the US (and presumably most of the world as well), people are allowed to take their alcoholic drinks out on the street, and to walk around anywhere with drink in hand. Tourists find this either amusing, shocking, or simply very welcome.

However, it is absolutely required, widely enforced, and generally accepted by drinkers of all kinds, that gloass containters ~ bottles as well as glasses ~ are absolutley prohibited outside the bar. Patrons are required to pour their drinks into plastic "go-cups" if they head for the door, and there is almost never any argument about it.

Wouldn't this be a reasonable policy elsewhere, modified as necessary for local custom? It seems that the danger of using glass "pots" as weapons is seen to be much greater out on the street than within the confines of the pub...