Posted on 08/17/2023 11:35:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz
They’re drinking the wine, while blowing lines of uncut Colombian bam bam, while being served by Ukrainian hookers.
If people (idiots) were willing to pay $500 per bottle for this wine, the appropriate authorities should have contracted with an auction house to sell the wine, then use the proceeds for a worthy cause.
Looks like they broke all the laws possible. Didn’t have a business license, didn’t have an alcohol permit, collected taxes during sales without sending them up, defrauding investors.
And you really can’t just put stuff at the bottom of a channel. That’s a navigational hazard. Could catch anchors, anchors could break it spewing stuff in the water. I just finished re-reading Neal Stephenson’s article about underwater cables. The bottom of the ocean is crowded, and paperwork matters.
Property rights and made up charges.
Where are we living now?
We are also getting ready to have vivek ramismarmy for president.
You're telling me!
Vinny "The Finger" and I were disposing of yet another "package" there in the channel only last week! It's getting so crowded down there that we are already looking for a new location for our informal "Witness Protection Program."
Regards,
Stupid.
That’s hilarious.
On the more serious side, my brother is involved in the wine business. It is a giant, giant business that, unless you have, some exposure to the regulations and the regimentation and statewide cataloging of statewide wine production, you can’t imagine it. The state of CA knows pretty much exactly how much wine is and was produced in the state to a level of accuracy you would never ever believe unless you saw the footprints, meaning the data they collect.
So the government controls how you age wine. CA has gone a long way towards full communism. The rest of the country is not far behind.
Youse can try Lake Mead again. Or so a, uh, friend told me...
I was building a cabin on a small lake in NE Wa. I got the housing permits and included in that permit was the approval to install a dock. About 6 mo after the project was done I get a call from some state bureaucrat asking me why I didn’t get permission from the state to built a dock. Told him I already had a permit. Not from the state he said. I went ballistic. I was afraid to ask if the Feds needed to approve also. (Probably do have to have that one now.) After fighting for a few minutes he backed off and said he would send me the permit so I could be legal. Glad my last name not Trump.
If the wine company does it outside the 12 mile limit is there another regulation?
Having spent or misspent four years of my youth at U.C. Santa Barbara, I can assure gentle readers that the Santa Barbara Channel is not what you’d call ‘pristine’. Our dorm shower rooms had kerosene to wash the tar off of the bottom of our feet. I can’t imagine how glass bottles pose any kind of threat worthy of either the Army Corps of Engineers nor the apparently omnipotent California Costal Commission.
Improper and unlicensed alcohol storage and records of same. Indictment #97.
“Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?”
- George Costanza
RLTW
You can be funny about it, but the Santa Barbara channel gets dredged twice a year. Probably wouldn’t be good for either the dredging equipment or the barrels if they’d wound in the dredge path. Some times there actually is a good reason for rules.
When will people with half a brain cease from the corrupt and pro-Left MSM and realize our greatest enemy is THE 80%+ UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND, THUS, ILLEGAL PORTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, by FAR the greatest threat to our lives, liberties, and wellbeing?????
― G.K. Chesterton
The "cases" holding the bottles are pretty small. The owners have a significant interest in keeping track of them.
It seems highly unlikely they would put them in the channel. Sounds like they are going to apply for the required permits and try again.
It is just a marketing ploy.
If they had an interest in keeping track of them they could have filled out the paperwork to make sure nothing happened.
I don’t think it’s a marketing ploy. Not when you look at all the other stuff they got busted for. I think they were just flying by the seat of their pants and hoping to cash out before anybody noticed.
California has a law for everything except breathing.
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