Posted on 06/23/2007 4:32:14 AM PDT by don-o
Hmmmmm. Glad I quit drinking.
Just folowing through with the same strategy as the TSA. Everyone’s guilty or trying to hide something.
Ihre papiere. Schnell.
Does this mean that Illegal Aliens will no longer be able to buy beer in TN? This could start a nation-wide trend to help solve our illegal immigrant problem. If illegals were denied access to their drink of choice, they would surely go home.
You know, you maybe on to something there.
Look for booze sales in neighboring states to increase.
This policy is so stupid I don’t know where to begin. How does requiring a grandmother to show ID help in the fight against underage drinking. Policies like this turn workers into automatons instead of thinking adults exercising common sense.
True story...I am in my late 40s, and look it. I have a gray beard and more hair in my nose and ears than on my head...not to mention the wrinkles and leathery skin of working outdoors for more than 25 years. I was in a Wal-Mart in Mississippi and had purchased about $120 worth of groceries, including a six pack of beer. When it was time to scan the beer, the clerk asked for an ID. I didn’t have one (I leave my drivers license in my truck at all time). She refused to sell me the beer without an ID, and I told her I wasn’t interested in purchasing any of the groceries without the beer. Even the people in line behind me were laughing at the clerk for even assuming I was under 21. Anyway, I ended up leaving all of my groceries there on the counter and left the store without buying anything.
My papers are in order.
With Jorge Boosh and the other IllegalPhiles in our govt...they will claim its “racist” to card illegals and try to kill the program
Actually I think this is a good idea, and in the long run few people will complain about showing ID for beer purchase (though why not for all booze?)
This article should be re-posted with the headline, “TENNESSEE FIUGRES OUT HOW TO GET RID OF ILLEGAL ALIENS”.
That is so wrong...... and so funny.
Tennessee is the first state in the union to tackle the growing “Age Profiling” crisis. With you, Tennessee, the ACLU is well pleased.
As a small business owner who does residential and commercial work, commercial always pays better. One repair on a residential unit might cost the homeowner $250 while the same repair for a commercial unit is $600. Government must have figured that out too.
Its easier to fine a store $2,000 than a citizen.
We all need to look at how our activism is changing the debate on immigration and apply that locally and pressure our lawmakers to do the right thing.
In Texas the TABC started arresting citizens in bars for public intox. That lasted about 2 weeks until our sell out governor got tired of the pressure from the citizenry and business. He decided it was a bad idea.
Sounds more like they want a record of buyers to suspect in the event of an illegal beer party for minors.
This is stupid. Stupid liberal solutions always fail, and then the liberals demand more of the failed solutions.
This reminds me when my husband was ransferred to Ft. Rucker, AL in 1972 after he came back from Vietnam and we moved to Ozark, which was dry. Our next door neighbor told us that the garbage man would turn people in when he saw beer cans or liquor bottles in the trash. I thought myself how stupid this is. Should the military, who lived of post just go to the clubs on post, get drunk and then drive drunk home? Thank God it didn't last long after we moved there as they made the city wet.
But they were the best for years in handing out drivers licenses to illegals, still passing out renewals to people who haven't ever lived in the state.
These universal ID card checks are stupid but right in line with the no judgement required punishments handed out in our schools for insignificant infractions.
Kids still buy beer.? I thought they were all buying ecstasy,Uppers bennies. Cocaine ,marijuana, heroin, its all easier for kids to get than beer.
Our local (recently located in place of one that went out of business) grocery store, for awhile had a similar policy. I’m 63, bald with gray fringe. Regardless, they’d card me every time I would buy my monthly bottle of bourbon. Sheesh.
I guess they had too many complaints because they’ve since stopped the practice.
Will this law prevent the unscrupulous clerk from selling to underage drinkers? No! And the underage are clever enough to ferret out these unscrupulous clerks pretty quickly.
This law essentially does the same thing. The lawmakers are going to control the many to prohibit the few. But, will this law prevent the unscrupulous clerk from selling to underage drinkers? No! And the underage are clever enough to ferret out these unscrupulous clerks pretty quickly.
This is stupid, but understandable when we consider the quality of people we tend to elect to higher office.
How stupid. We really have a strange fear of booze overhear. Kids can join the army before they can have a beer. A lot of other western countries allow booze from a much younger and chaos hasn’t resulted.
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