Bill Making Happy Hour Legal Heads To Governors Desk…

[Shadow01]

Food and beverage industry seemed to think it was pretty important…

I think property tax reform would have benefited more citizens

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I'm immune. Don't believe I've ever heard a Beastie Boys song (are they songs?)

I would posit that you likely have without realizing it's a BB song. It is very difficult to escape "Sabotage" in certain decades of Western culture given it's use in tv shows and movies. Not quite as bad, but similar to trying to escape Fortunate Son.

Kids movies to Star Trek, it's been used a bunch. Example, Minions here (starts at 0.44 and plays in the background for the remainder):

 

[Hoosier Carry]

Now is the time to fight. For your right. To paaaaaaarty. Cheaper.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I'm not sure I want to...

Trust me. You want to. If for no other reason than you get to watch muppets.

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the sight of those 40s makes me ill.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I would posit that you likely have without realizing it's a BB song. It is very difficult to escape "Sabotage" in certain decades of Western culture given it's use in tv shows and movies. Not quite as bad, but similar to trying to escape Fortunate Son.

Kids movies to Star Trek, it's been used a bunch. Example, Minions here (starts at 0.44 and plays in the background for the remainder):

Nope, never heard it. Not my cup of tea.

 

[phylodog]

More freedom?!?!?!


There will be blood in the streets!

 

[Ingomike]

More freedom?!?!?!


There will be blood in the streets!

This thinking is interesting to me, so do we have no laws?

 

[phylodog]

This thinking is interesting to me, so do we have no laws?

I think we passed the point of sufficient legislation many moons ago. There aren’t many I’ll mourn the loss of.

 

[Ingomike]

I think we passed the point of sufficient legislation many moons ago. There aren’t many I’ll mourn the loss of.

Fully agreed.

 

[tbhausen]

But don't ban something just because there's a chance someone will misuse it...

Yeah, like guns.

 

[Ingomike]

So do away with all alcohol laws? Should DUI go away? After all until they hit someone they didn’t hurt anyone else?

 

[phylodog]

So do away with all alcohol laws? Should DUI go away? After all until they hit someone they didn’t hurt anyone else?

Haven't seen anyone suggest that.

I don't care for the current legal standard for intoxication but that ship sailed long ago.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Hey this was only 39 years in the making. Beer sales at the State Fair was gone for like 70 years. A bunch of WWII Vets drank all the beer in 46… who saw that coming?

 

[Cameramonkey]

So do away with all alcohol laws? Should DUI go away? After all until they hit someone they didn’t hurt anyone else?

Fine. On one condition.

If you crash and blow above the legal limit, cops shoot you on scene and your body hung up for all to see. Left for the critters to devour like road kill.

EDIT: That would be a bit more jarring than seeing those white ghost bikes on the side of the road.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

So do away with all alcohol laws? Should DUI go away? After all until they hit someone they didn’t hurt anyone else?

DUI isn't an "alcohol law". The "I" isn't restricted to alcohol, after all. Excise doesn't enforce it. DUI is a reckless endangerment law specific to traffic.

 

[Ingomike]

Haven't seen anyone suggest that.

I don't care for the current legal standard for intoxication but that ship sailed long ago.

When they were debating the bill at the legislature I called a few reps that I knew and asked for some information germane to the decision, namely, how many crashes and how many fatalities were there for those above .08 and below 1.0. The discussion was a change was needed because of deaths.

They all said the same thing, the data was not available. The actual data relating to a change in the law was never a part of the discussion.

 

[Ingomike]

DUI isn't an "alcohol law". The "I" isn't restricted to alcohol, after all. Excise doesn't enforce it. DUI is a reckless endangerment law specific to traffic.

But if they don’t crash or kill someone they didn’t hurt anybody, what is the crime?

Funny, I have been through most of the stages of thinking about government. Most people don’t want government laws until they do…

 

[Ingomike]

DUI isn't an "alcohol law". The "I" isn't restricted to alcohol, after all. Excise doesn't enforce it. DUI is a reckless endangerment law specific to traffic.

So we do away with all excise laws? Bars open 24-7-365? Drug store selling $1 fifths of vodka with a prescription?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

But if they don’t crash or kill someone they didn’t hurt anybody, what is the crime?

Funny, I have been through most of the stages of thinking about government. Most people don’t want government laws until they do…

I don't get the relevancy to price fixing, and I don't think anyone else does either. It seems like you're just ranging further afield until you can get someone to engage in a debate on the topic nobody seems that interested in.

 

[Gunaddict]

I don’t drink, but I never understood all the crazy Indiana beverage laws. It’s happy hour no matter if they let you say it or not. Good grief…stop this nonsense and fix the dang roads!!!