[Vision]

alcoholic energy drinks

Sounds like a terrible idea.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Too much WATER can kill ya, too.

[bert]

As I get older and further and further behind, I find yet another incident. Alcoholic energy drinks. Who’d a thunk it?

I can see the lawsuits for the death of a rock climber brought by his mother. Or maybe a rampaging young linebacker killed a quarterback or an octogenarian who broke her hip after going on a binge and abandoning her walker.

[relictele]

These ‘sting buys’ seem to be a favorite of the perpetually-bored police and fodder for local newsrags who delight in identifying the ‘evil’ carryout stores and wring their hands over demon rum. A case could be made for entrapment but when has that stopped the police?

As usual huge amounts of time, energy and manpower go into stopping ‘crimes’ that affect the smallest number of people (see also: DUI checkpoints that stop 500 vehicles and net 2 arrests). In fact, without the sting transaction being initiated there would be NO ‘crime’ to bravely stop!

Of course, none of this will stop the PR-addicted police who love their dog and pony shows but can’t be arsed to deal with your house being burgled.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

What’s the point of these drinks? Counteracting a stimulant with a depressant? Why?

[FatherofFive]

If cashiers don't know about the products or are tired or distracted, it's easy for them to accidentally sell the drinks to minors, Simmons said. That's why stores must educate their employees.

This is bogus. When I go to the grocery self checkout with wine, the order is frozen until someone verifies. Or if the clerk is underage, someone else has to come and "sell" me the wine.

This is a simple technology fix.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

But with as much caffeine as several cups of coffee and twice as much alcohol as beer

[Graybeard58]

They pose a special problem because they look like their non alcoholic counterparts, making them easy to slip past distracted or uninformed cashiers

They need to modernize their registers. Around here when a clerk scans alcohol or tobacco, the register asks them "is the customer of legal age".

[Sarajevo]

But with as much caffeine as several cups of coffee and twice as much alcohol as beer,

I never acquired a taste for coffee and vodka......

[Bernard]

It’s officially the 21st Century: “Here, hold my energy drink and watch this!”

[Rifleman]

Haven’t any of these boobs heard of Irish Coffee? Tastes much better than the canned “energy” drinks, too.

[libertarian27]

But yet kids can buy mouthwash, cough medicine and vanilla extract without even a hint of a required ID check.

Imitation Vanilla Extract, 13% alcohol,
Pure Vanilla Extract, 35% alcohol
Imitation Rum, 29% alcohol
Marsala Cooking Wine, 14% alcohol
Listerine Vanilla Mint mouth wash, 21.6% alcohol
Vicks NyQuil Cough, 10% alcohol