Over-reaching is over-reaching, plain and simple. The policy, as it stands, is over-reaching. If they keep it as is, they'll likely lose more customers.

Blame it on the marshmallows! That means campfire. That means girl scouts or boy scouts. Add the beer purchase and the clerk got nervous! :lol:

Over-reaching is over-reaching, plain and simple. The policy, as it stands, is over-reaching. If they keep it as is, they'll likely lose more customers.

 

Then go to the store that just lets you walk in and get what you want. When they sell beer to your 18 year old child, who then gets drunk and drives into the car driven by your wife and other child, and you lose your entire family because the store failed to check an ID like state law requires, don't come crying on here about it and how the clerk didn't do their job.

 

If its to much of a pain in the *** to get your ID out and show it to the clerk to get your drink on, maybe you don't deserve the privilege to get your drink on in the first place.

Blame it on the marshmallows! That means campfire. That means girl scouts or boy scouts. Add the beer purchase and the clerk got nervous! :lol:

:lol: You know, with the soda law and this kind of nonsense, I'm not sure how far from true that statement may be one day soon.

Then go to the store that just lets you walk in and get what you want. When they sell beer to your 18 year old child, who then gets drunk and drives into the car driven by your wife and other child, and you lose your entire family because the store failed to check an ID like state law requires, don't come crying on here about it and how the clerk didn't do their job.

 

If its to much of a pain in the *** to get your ID out and show it to the clerk to get your drink on, maybe you don't deserve the privilege to get your drink on in the first place.

I HAD AN ID. I lost my sister to a drunk driver, so let's not go there. This has nothing to do with carding people that look remotely close to even 30 for me. 50, 60, 70...come on....

 

Embrace absurd policy if you wish, I choose not to.

RTS, it's because you are looking so young now a days!

I HAD AN ID. I lost my sister to a drunk driver, so let's not go there. This has nothing to do with carding people that look remotely close to even 30 for me. 50, 60, 70...come on....

 

Embrace absurd policy if you wish, I choose not to.

 

Then you of all people should understand the importance of ID all parties when it comes to buying Alcohol. Its not that difficult to hand over your ID, you should have it on you at all times anyways.

This should come as no surprise, but if it were up to me you wouldn't have to worry about this. Reason being, I'd eliminate the drinking age...

RTS, it's because you are looking so young now a days!

Careful, your nose might grow. :lol:

Then you of all people should understand the importance of ID all parties when it comes to buying Alcohol. Its not that difficult to hand over your ID, you should have it on you at all times anyways.

I agree you should have it at all times, but in her case she had left in our other car when she went to the gym, she doesn't like to leave her purse in the car, even the trunk. She normally has it.

Are you only reading what you want to from me? I get the reason, I understand the policy. I think it's over-reaching when you ID have to ID both parties that are obviously over 50. I say it one more time, if they look even in their 30s, I can see it. But 50, 60, 70.... come on.

 

 

Tell me you can't tell a couple like this is over 21. :lol:

 

By their policy, they both have to have an ID. Stupid.

I agree it's stupid, but you have to look at it from the employees shoes. From what I understand, the police or ABC do undercover stings that mimic your situation (age and everything) fairly frequently. I imagine someone working at UDF doesn't have the financial freedom to risk their job because it might be easier to slack. I know they do this at restaurants a lot too, where they'll send in the undercovers and try to get drinks without being carded all the time. They'll even wait for the server to start walking away from the table and ask for a beer and if they don't come back and card them they get rung up. It's just another one of those stupid and humiliating things you have to do to work a job with the public. I agree with former though, get rid of the dumb alcohol regulations.

 

Kentucky's pretty lax on this stuff too compared to other states. I'm pretty sure you have to give blood to get a beer on the east coast.

Most of the places I've been to have a policy requiring ID if the buyer looks under age 35 or 40 or something like that.

I am with RTS on this one. I fully understand the points everyone is making about following the law. But if I am a judge, and a law enforcement officer and prosecutor walk up to the bench with a case where this clerk sold beer to RTS as described, I would be PO'D to the max. I would throw the case out of court and tell the prosecution to never bring a case like that to my courtroom again.

Yeah, I thought the policy or law was if they look 35 or 40 or under, ID.

Careful, your nose might grow. :lol:

 

Or turn a shade of, shall we say, very dark tan.

I agree it's stupid, but you have to look at it from the employees shoes. From what I understand, the police or ABC do undercover stings that mimic your situation (age and everything) fairly frequently. I imagine someone working at UDF doesn't have the financial freedom to risk their job because it might be easier to slack. I know they do this at restaurants a lot too, where they'll send in the undercovers and try to get drinks without being carded all the time. They'll even wait for the server to start walking away from the table and ask for a beer and if they don't come back and card them they get rung up. It's just another one of those stupid and humiliating things you have to do to work a job with the public. I agree with former though, get rid of the dumb alcohol regulations.

 

Kentucky's pretty lax on this stuff too compared to other states. I'm pretty sure you have to give blood to get a beer on the east coast.

Yeah, from her point of view, I understand. My problem is with the policy itself really. It goes to what I consider too far and becomes pointless.

 

Glad I don't live on the east coast. :lol: