Posted on 04/24/2013 11:19:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono
MCDONALD, Pa., - Police in Pennsylvania said they responded to a report of two men burning something in a shed and discovered an alleged moonshine making operation.
McDonald police said Midway residents called officers to their neighborhood April 11 with a report of neighbors burning something in a shed and one witness told police he suspected they were making moonshine because he had seen a man loading Mason jars into a vehicle, The (Washington, Pa.) Observer reported Tuesday.
Police said they entered the shed to discover Matthew Zirwas III, 33, and Matthew Kirks, 29, operating what appeared to be an ethanol or moonshine distillery.
Police said the man admitted they had been making moonshine in the shed.
Zirwas and Kirks were both charged with five counts of reckless endangerment and one count each of failure to have a license to make liquor, illegal possession of liquor, disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana.
What kind of neighbors would report you for making a little moonshine? Not the kind I want, for sure. My grandpa was a moonshiner and I am right proud of that.
What kind of neighbors would report you for making a little moonshine?
LOL
“I live in a rural area and have a family + cows, horses, dogs & cats. “
Laws vary from state to state.
That is a great American. Better than any bed wetting pansy politician.
There will never be another Popcorn Sutton!
It was the easiest way to haul corn to market and turn it into cash.
I'm more than likely some kind of kin, after 250 years in those mountains everyone is kin to everyone else.
Problem was that the “market” that had cash, was on the other side of the Alleghenies. Locally on the frontier, there was little cash to be had which is why spirits were used in lieu of cash. The tax was to be paid in cash at the still, not at the market. That’s why the taxman went to the still. Also, with cash more plentifull on the coastal plain, the tax represented a much smaller percentage of the mfg. cost there than at the frontier.
Ya know the more I think about it, the more I realize that this was a venture into crony capitalism on the part of George Washington.
“IRA ... IRS ... a distinction without a difference.”
Yup, both are radical terrorist organisations
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