🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:35:03 -0500, Dave Garland
<dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:

>Gordon Burditt wrote:
>
>> There have been a few "undercover stings" by reporters checking to
>> see how much checking is actually done on ID.  The result was
>> "essentially none".  Nobody objected to any of these:
>
>Here (Minneapolis) the State runs stings occasionally.  It's not
>uncommon to see a news item that someplace has lost its license to
>sell alcohol or tobacco due to underage sales.  Sometimes just their
>license for that particular good.  Places with repeated offenses
>(especially if there's anything about them that would annoy John Q.
>Public, like lots of minority customers or noisy kids or fights in the
>parking lot) are liable to be closed down by the city council, the
>underage sales being one of the justifications.

VT does that, as well.  Selling tobacco or alcohol to an underage
person was a criminal offense (not a violation).  One criminal offense
and you couldn't have a liquor license.  If the bar owner was behind
the bar and got stung by an undercover "kid" with a fake ID they'd
lose their license, permanently.  VT is nutz. 

>But that's just on state-licensed goods.  Your credit card, they could
>care less.

Of course.