Wow! Making it illegal to be intoxicated while serving — I would have thought common sense was enough to keep bartenders from drinking on the job. This might be one of those laws that only keep honest people honest.
The problem with this law is not for bigger communities or even average to above average size bars, the problem is the small mom and pop bar that only gets a few regulars in a day. The mom and pop are the only employees and they’ll drink with their “friends”, I mean customers. Yes getting drunk with them is wrong, but to have one or two over the course of the night isn’t. But with this law if a cop stops in and the owner takes a drink, they could lose all the money they made that night or even for the week with the one fine.
I say let the bar owner make the decision. As Philip said a happy bartender may give you a two for one. Not many owners will keep a bartender around drunk, let alone giving away profits.
The police chief’s own words state they are targeting this as a ‘secondary’ cause of other crimes like fights and public intoxication. We don’t need new crimes or new laws. We reportedly have a sliver of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners. Republicans, Democrats, Right, Left, it does not matter they are all Statists. They say they don’t want “weapons of war on our streets” but have armed small town police departments across this country to the teeth with billions upon billions of dollars of surplus military gear– a/k/a weapons of war, 50 caliber truck mounted guns, armored personnel carriers, cops dressed in all black w/ baclavas and M-16s… aren’t those weapons of war on our streets? It is far past time to relegate the failed “Tough on Crime” policies of the 80s to the dust bin of history.
What a novel itea… Require workers to show up to work sober and not drink on the job.
What’s next?
Here comes a new violation of the law. SWI (serving while intoxicated). I don’t mind a drunk bartender. He’ll give me two for the price of one.
I have to agree with ISG, how many jobs do you know that allow the employees to get toasted while on the job?
Wow! Making it illegal to be intoxicated while serving — I would have thought common sense was enough to keep bartenders from drinking on the job. This might be one of those laws that only keep honest people honest.
The problem with this law is not for bigger communities or even average to above average size bars, the problem is the small mom and pop bar that only gets a few regulars in a day. The mom and pop are the only employees and they’ll drink with their “friends”, I mean customers. Yes getting drunk with them is wrong, but to have one or two over the course of the night isn’t. But with this law if a cop stops in and the owner takes a drink, they could lose all the money they made that night or even for the week with the one fine.
I say let the bar owner make the decision. As Philip said a happy bartender may give you a two for one. Not many owners will keep a bartender around drunk, let alone giving away profits.
The police chief’s own words state they are targeting this as a ‘secondary’ cause of other crimes like fights and public intoxication. We don’t need new crimes or new laws. We reportedly have a sliver of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners. Republicans, Democrats, Right, Left, it does not matter they are all Statists. They say they don’t want “weapons of war on our streets” but have armed small town police departments across this country to the teeth with billions upon billions of dollars of surplus military gear– a/k/a weapons of war, 50 caliber truck mounted guns, armored personnel carriers, cops dressed in all black w/ baclavas and M-16s… aren’t those weapons of war on our streets? It is far past time to relegate the failed “Tough on Crime” policies of the 80s to the dust bin of history.