ID for buying Booze
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post of the year!!!
Jackson_Slugger
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Yeah, a couple offenses will lose you your liquor license in NY, though money and pull are also factors. But it is a bit ridiculous as I had a clerk at a local gas chain basically say sorry because we have to ID even people we know now because of one incident.
I don't know if the laws changed but they used to ask anyone that looked under 50 if they were "underage" or under 30. A simple "no" absolved them of any liability because undercover pinkertons are not supposed to lie...
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Why should you? I sign a register with my name on it under penalty of fraud if it's under someone elses...
RC Cola with rum from the supermarket and a motorcycle that I secretly kept at an older friend's house at age 12. The Cuba Libre in the UK, the bike in the US. I didn't mix the two.
I had to leave my parent's house to buy a Honda 350 Scrambler. A friend borrowed it, against my wishes, and totaled it.RC Cola with rum from the supermarket and a motorcycle that I secretly kept at an older friend's house at age 12. The Cuba Libre in the UK, the bike in the US. I didn't mix the two.
They ask for an I.D. in my town for some reason. Doenst matter really. It's a small town and the volunteers know just about everyone. I say Hi Holly to the asst. town clerk in the gym and she checks me off and hands me a ballot. No double voting or deceased voting here.
Well, maybe a few walking dead sneek by ...
I totaled my bike and put a big dent in the side of an LA city bus. "Ow, my arm." A cop brushed the dust off me and let me go!
Jackson_Slugger
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I was 19 in the Army and regularly bought beer and even liquor on post, off post I was old enough to get shot for my country but too young for a beer...
Jackson_Slugger
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It had more to do with the push against drunk driving, which I get. But when I was a kid 18 was the legal age here, then briefly it was 19 before the FHA began threatening to deny funding to any state where the legal age was under 21...
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act#:~:text=§ 158) was passed by,highway apportionment by 10 percent.
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (23 U.S.C. § 158) was passed by the United States Congress and was later signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 17, 1984.[1][2][3] The act would punish any state that allowed persons under 21 years to purchase alcoholic beverages by reducing its annual federal highway apportionment by 10 percent. The law was later amended, lowering the penalty to 8 percent from fiscal year 2012 and beyond.[4]
Despite its name, this act did not outlaw the consumption of alcoholic beverages by those under 21 years of age, just their purchase or public possession. However, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, New Hampshire, and West Virginia, extended the law into an outright ban. The minimum purchase and drinking ages is a state law, and most states still permit "underage" consumption of alcohol in some circumstances. In some states, no restriction on private consumption is made, while in other states, consumption is only allowed in specific locations, in the presence of consenting and supervising family members, as in the states of Colorado, Maryland, Montana, New York, Texas, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Some states even allow persons under 21 years of age to drink alcohol in public places, such as in Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts and Louisiana as long as the parent or guardian consents to it and is the one that buys the alcohol and is at least 21 years old. The act also does not seek to criminalize alcohol consumption during religious occasions (e.g., communion wines, Kiddush).
The act was expressly upheld as constitutional in 1987 by the United States Supreme Court in South Dakota v. Dole.
In high school my good friend was a checker at a grocery store. Back then the requirement for ID'ing for alcohol way looser but he told me he usually asked the little old ladies for ID because most of them loved it. "Bless you, sonny!"
How do they know who signed it?
Wisconsin allows consumption by a minor in a bar or restaurant if you are with a parent or guardian. It also allows purchase under the same conditions. This includes a spouse under 21 if the partner is 21 or over. This is likely the most liberal in the nation, especially the purchase part. Several attempts have been made to incorporate additional restrictions to the law but all have failed.
Jackson_Slugger
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Pretty much the same here, but certainly not advertised. A couple places I go won't even let minors at the bar even with parents. One place will not let anyone under 30 in after 10pm (bars can be open until 4am here, few actually are open that late)...
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Can a tip feature be added for if they feel the county clerk did a good job with the bail processing?
Jackson_Slugger
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They don't but the poll workers I've seen are diligent, and stealing a vote is a pretty low payoff crime and study after study show that illegal voting is rare and mostly done out of ignorance (ie moved to a different district but voted in their old address area.) Most actual crimes involve fraud and misinformation aimed at suppressing the vote...
Jackson_Slugger
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When I was in the Army, it was 18 on Post but again, not advertised. Some of the E-clubs served low alcohol beer along with the real stuff...
There isn't really anything to be diligent about. Where I vote, the sweet 80 year old lady opens the book to a name and I sign and they hand me a ballot.
Somehow the "if it stops one crime or saves one person it is worth it" crowd doesn't care about votes, which is more important IMO.
When I was 18 just out of boot camp went to NAS Alameda, they had beer machines in the barracks, 2 bits a can, never had enough quarters.
