(PA) Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers (and instead confiscate licensed ones)

Philadelphia Daily News / Philly.com ^ | March 8, 2010 | DON RUSSELL & BOB WARNER

[bamahead]

Don't you feel safer now?

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[rhombus]

Laying their lives on the line every single day. ;-)

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[pray4liberty]

The alleged offense: Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state Liquor Control Board - a process that requires the brewers or their importers to pay a $75 registration fee for each product they want to sell in Pennsylvania.

Guess abbreviations don't count?

[darkangel82]

Pennsylvania, of course. One would expect no different.

[a fool in paradise]

In fact, according to Maida, more than half the beer removed by the State Police was properly registered - but the cops couldn't find it on their lists because of "clerical errors" or "blatant ineptitude" between the police and the Liquor Control Board, with whom the officers were conferring by telephone.

Procedural crime. Meanwhile they let the crackhouses down the road in any direction go undisturbed.

The bar owners won't get violent as a crack addict or dope dealer might. And they have "$7,000" in beer so they should be good for upwards of $10,000 in revenue ticket fines.

Sometime the badge just belongs to the biggest gang in town.

[thefactor]

Oh, the muster room was hoppin after this operation! Yee-haw!

[SJSAMPLE]

At least they went home to their families that night.

[a fool in paradise]

La Torre said that the beer would be kept in a secured location, as evidence, until the case is resolved, probably in six to eight months.

Refrigerated?

Maybe they can use the city morgue.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Guess abbreviations don't count?

Soon they'll be grabbing everything named "Bud" because the Board has it as "Budweiser." (That whirring sound you are hearing is Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, et al, spinning in their graves.)

[GraceG]

People forget it was the IRS that took down the bootleggers, damn revenuers.

If my family started their own still to make ethanol for runnign thier vehicles, how long before the Revenuers would show up to cart them all to jail?

[Red Badger]

At least it’s not like Alabama where you have to buy alcohol from the STATE!................

[nralife]

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[a fool in paradise]

She added: "It's McCarthy-like. They swarm in here and confiscate this product because they don't know what the product is."

That has NOTHING to do with Joe McCarthy or Communist "witchhunts" (which found REAL Communists).

How about Gore-like? Seizing all filament lightbulbs and low flow toilets even though it won't aid the climate one bit.

[HamiltonJay]

The PCLB is a giant scam.. place for kickbacks and overpaid government jobs.

[Vaquero]

jack booted thug alert!

[Izzy Dunne]

Pennsylvania, of course.

Pennsylvania?

From the title, I thought this was the Palestinian Authority.

[a fool in paradise]

And people think if pot is legalized that this sort of thing won’t happen to people growing pot at home.

[Eyes Unclouded]

Never if you gave Obama credit for you having green jobs.