Posted on 07/10/2007 4:39:11 AM PDT by don-o
Alcohol was recently sold to minors at 14 convenience stores, restaurants and bars in the city, according to police.
Over the past two months, the Bristol Tennessee Police Department conducted a sting using 20-year-old women who bought the beverages using valid, state-issued identification bearing their photographs and correct ages, according to a news release.
The buys were made at each of the 52 businesses in the city that hold alcohol permits. The sting is aimed at curtailing the sale of alcohol to minors, according to the police statement. “If we catch one person or business – then that is one too many,” said Capt. Charlie Thomas.
Eleven of those who sold the alcohol illegally asked for identification, but sold it anyway, he added.
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“If we catch one person or business – then that is one too many,” said Capt. Charlie Thomas.
Good grief. There is just no sense of proportion anymore.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Don’t get in their way - they have guns...
The “just show your license even thought you are 20” move worked a little less than half the time with me. Amazing how few people did the math.
If one is old enough to take up arms for your country...you are old enough to drink in my view.
This got completely out of hand long ago. When I got married, my wife was 19, and purchased the liquor permit for our wedding reception in her home province of Alberta. Several months later, she was 20, and on returning from a trip to Maine back to tax-happy Connecticut, I figured I’d pick up some booze in the New Hampshire package store (state run).
At checkout, I was asked for ID, I was plenty old enough, so I produced it. Then they asked for my wife’s ID. I pointed out that I was buying, not her. They said it didn’t matter, because the rule was that everybody has to show ID and be of age or no purchase. Yup. A full grown man was denied a bottle of scotch because he brought his 20 year old (non-drinking) wife with him. Live Free or Die, indeed.
I object!
If you don’t need positive ID to vote, you shouldn’t need ID to buy liquor! Or a gun!
Mark
The men and women in our armed forces who are under 21 certainly are mature enough and have earned the right to drink.
The last thing the leftist anti-war brats who would never take up arms to defend their country need is legal access to alcohol.
Look at it this way—if your birthday is in September but you’re still 20, a lot of clerks aren’t going to do the math once they see a birth year of 1986.
(Gawd, I graduated high school before they were born. How sad. I’m gettin old.)
That being said, does this state clearly identify those who are not yet 21? I know back in CA, it was stamped (read: damn near tamper-proof) all over the license “UNDER 21 UNTIL 19XX”.
Did those ID’s have them or was this just a sneaky money-grab by the state?
I know the liquor stores of which you speak and I’ve never heard of that being done. Overzealous cashier, perhaps? What if a person goes in there with their kids?
No, it should be military entrance age only for those who are in the service. If you are not in the service, you wait until 21. Give the kids SOME kind of benefit beyond cheap smokes in the PX.
In Virginia it isn’t stamped on the license, but every store has a sign or sticker on the counter. All the clerk has to do is compare the license date to the sign. Easy.
That’s what I was thinking. If you have a legal Military ID, 18 is the age.
I know that used to be the case, at least 20-ish years ago before I was of age. I think it’s insane to take beer away from our soldiers.
Some kids go in at 17. Not too many, but should they be legal too?
I understand you senitment and agree for the most part.
Up until the late 80’s or early 90’s NY State was an 18 year old drinking age state. the reasoning being that if you can fight in a war you should be able to drink.
it took a couple of decades, but the end of the draft signaled the end of 18 year old drinking in NY.
Yes - Same as Californy.
No, it should be military entrance age only for those who are in the service. If you are not in the service, you wait until 21. Give the kids SOME kind of benefit beyond cheap smokes in the PX.
I agree with that: show ‘em some extra respect!
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