Posted on 01/18/2006 6:04:21 PM PST by elkfersupper
MONTGOMERY - Keg parties at fraternities and many other places would be outlawed under a bill passed 30-0 Tuesday by the state Senate.
If the bill becomes law, people could drink draft beer only at a bar, restaurant, private club or other retail establishment licensed for beer sales by the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, said Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, the bill's sponsor. People could not buy a keg and take it elsewhere to drink.
Singleton said he proposed the bill in an effort to stop teenagers from drinking beer.
Donna Alexander, a lobbyist for the Alabama Wholesale Beer Association, said the association supports Singleton's efforts to pass the proposed law, because it could curb binge drinking and underage drinking.
Robert Hill, an attorney for the state ABC Board, said if the bill becomes law, "someone could not sell you a keg to take with you, to consume off the licensed premises that sold the beer." The board has not taken a position on the bill.
Asked if an organization could get a special-events license from the ABC Board as a way to hold a keg party if the bill were to become law, Hill noted that the state fee on such a license is $150, and said the beer would have to be sold at the event.
Love, love, LOVE your tagline!
Shoot, we just called it trash can punch.
Good Lord,even in the nursery?
Sounds like this guy is missing a few screws.
What's this Everclear people have mentioned? The only Everclear I ever heard of is the band (and I'm sure that's where they took their name, although I didn't know it at the time I bought their albums).
Alabama is surely off its collective rocker. First the ban on sex-toys and now this. No wonder my good friend in Birmingham refers to his own state as Alabamistan.
Did you see the story today about some group suing to cease commercials for sweetened cereals?
We called it "dump" punch. Whichever floor or group was having the party would make the base; and people just came along and "dumped" various and sundry bottles of alcohol into it.
Personally, I never drank it...it was usually simply wicked-tasting. I do remember, however, that it turned out a really odd dark purplish-blue one time.
We had a party full of people with blue-tinged lips, they looked as though they were suffering from oxygen deprivation.
Elk, what's wrong with being against urban growth? After all, the urban areas are where the socialists are. LOL
But you're still a whippersnapper
Maybe, but I'm a smart whippersnapper, dammit! : )
Once they bunch up like that, they tend to try to dictate what goes on out here in "shoot-off-the-porch" land, without us knowing about it.
I dunno, have you talked to a twenty year old lately? If we don't get something done about the NEA, we're screwed.
You know things are bad when you actually consider running for public office. I don't know that I could stomach being in the same room with lifetime politicians, but if normal, fed-up folks don't run and win, it is just going to get worse.
It is bottled gasoline that only teenagers and homeless drunks dare to consume.
I don't know where to begin on that.
Rent "Animal House" (the movie).
"Safe" is what happens to you after you have kids, mortgages and responsibilities.
Geez!
Grain alcohol - close to 200 proof.
No redeeming qualities (except as a solvent).
Ah yes, the keg party. A rite of passage in college. Sometimes the cops would bust them for being too noisy. Eventually, they went to all can, but they are very messy.
If these goofballs think they are going to put an end to irresponsible parties by kids then they must be Dimocratz. Kids are always going to find ways around even the most strict of rules.
Makes sense to me. It is usually the same few people who are doing this insanity.
I remember those hard liquor mixed with Kool-Aid. I had them before. Not bad. Many girls drank them though.
Oh, OK, I misread your statement, I guess.
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