Maybe the stores need to be a little more sensitive on this. At the very least, maybe, post appropriate signs to show they have changed their policy and no longer sell to the reservation's residents.
Oh, cry me a “F”ing bucket! Adults doing business with other adults isn’t a crime. Hay, Chief “What’s-Your-Name”, arrest the “tribal members who broke “tribal law” and shut you “pie hole”!!
I don’t get it. Is the government involved here? Was a government fiat issued, compelling native Americans to purchase beer and drink it irresponsiby? Were these stores on the reservation. Someone’s in heap-big trouble!
I was working on my house and smashed the living be-geebers out of my thumb. I think I should sue Stanley Tools, they made the hammer ... and Home Depot sold it to me.
Here's an idea. Take responsibility for your own actions.
Never mind ...
Five million cans of beer between four stores or 1.25 million per store. That’s a lot of beer! How much is the average retail price of a can of beer?
Interesting. They apparently want the stores to refuse to sell a legal product to customers who happen to be Indian.
Isn't there a law or two against such racial discrimination?
I love it.
Popcorn time.
Injuns can't handle firewater.
Maybe the stores need to be a little more sensitive on this. At the very least, maybe, post appropriate signs to show they have changed their policy and no longer sell to the reservation's residents.
Uh huh, I knew it! It's never the customers' fault.
So is there going to be a retaliatory suit by gambling addicts?
Are they on the res? [Wikis] No, apparently they’re not. Sucks for you, tribe. Enforce your own dry laws.
I would love to know the names of the lead attorneys, and their firm affiliation on this as the wording is nearly identical to that used by the the ambulance chasers that went after the tobacco companies.
The White Man tried prohibition early in the last century. It failed miserably. Why do the Indians expect it to work any better on their communist reservations.
Since the land on typical Indian reservation is owned by “the people”, there is no incentive to develop the land (since there is no private real estate). The result is poverty and misery, along with the Indian equivalent of Russian vodka-chugging. Yes, they’re all drinking bootleg beer to forget their misery, IMO.
And what better way to forget how this stuff is all their fault than to sue the crap out of people providing goods that Indians actually want?
I am familiar with the problem. On the main road right outside the reservation there are shops selling beer.
People drive there, fill up the car, and drive home often intoxicated. There are accidents on the road, and often in the winter they freeze to death walking home from the party near their house (it gets 30 below there).
The idea is if they had to drive to the city to buy beer, there’d be fewer deaths. I’m not sure if that’s true, but there is a place in hell for people who make lots of money selling beer to alcoholics.
Are they going to sue Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and ever company that makes cleaning solvents, after shave, drain cleaner and every other compound the natives have consumed on the dry res because they couldn’t get alcohol?