And the drunk continued to drink. Its his fault.
If you can’t get intoxicated in a bar...
Safe Harbor law = pony up some $ to the TABC and they had you a get out of jail free card.
....yes????????
From the article:
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Why not? Something in Texas law known as Safe Harbor, which is the only law of its kind in the nation. It says if liquor license owners take a few simple steps, they’re immune from liability for serving drunks or serving minors. What are those steps? Make sure bartenders and waitresses go through state-approved training; make sure liquor serving laws are posted at the bar, and make sure nobody encourages violation of the law.
Follow those rules, and you’re protected against lawsuits and action by the TABC.
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Sounds reasonable to me. Safe harbors for bar owners make sense. Go after the driver.
The only one to blame for this accident is the drunk driver who continued to drink. To hold the bar responsible is just BS and another way to rip money from someone. Would their son be any less dead if they could sue the bar? Nope, he wouldn’t, no amount of money will bring him back.
This sounds like an even whinier than usual sob sister editorial.
“But *don’t* you *understand*? Unless there is gun control, people will gun down kittens and puppies in the streets and *get* *away* *with* *it*! Can’t you just hear the pitiful cries of the wounded and bleeding puppies as the gun users snatch them from the arms of *innocent* little children, and then when they can’t *stomp* on them with their steel toed boots, they pull out their *cheap*, *disposable* killing gun and savagely shoot puppy after puppy, kitty after kitty, while laughing maniacally! The horror! The outrage! Guns must be outlawed!”
Looking at the drunk driving story objectively, what happened?
Some guy got drunk in a bar and while driving DUI killed someone. It happens all over the US, every single day. And NOWHERE in the US are bars found liable for the drunken driving offenses of their patrons.
So what about Texas. Oh, yeah. They have laws on the books to try and reduce the number of DUI cases. In this case, those extra laws didn’t help.
And the family of the innocent dead person wants to sue somebody. They obviously can’t get any money out of the DUI guy, or the car dealer who sold him the car, or the car maker who made the car that was sold to the dealer and then to the DUI. Nor can they sue the liquor manufacturer.
But gosh darn it, they want MONEY. So they are suing the bar. And that’s not working, either.
Yeah, that about sums it up.
Okay, the BAR is safe; what about the actual server(s) who continued serving him?
Oh; pockets are too shallow.
Never mind.
The perp could have purchased a bottle in a liquor store to achieve the same results.
A regrettable situation, but an impossible responsibility to pass off on the server.
These laws like “suing the bar because they served a drunk driver” are only around for lawyers to get more money from someone or something. Individuals should be held responsible for their actions
If I go to my favorite All You Can Eat Buffett...stuff myself....and cause an accident because I belched or flatulated....should that restaurant be held liable? If I go to a video game place...and my eyes are all bugged out, causing a wreck...should the video game place be sued?