Indiana Law, can someone "splain" this to me???

[SEIndSAM]

I stop at a local BP quite often. You could call me a regular there.

Batesville is in the SE corner of the state, not that far from both OH and KY and right on the interstate. I often hear people from other states ask why they can't buy cold beer at this convenience store. The owner explains it's state law, that you have to go to a package store. Every once in a while, people get angry that he can't sell them cold beer?? It's like they don't believe him??

I am not a drinker, so I don't usually follow the alcohol rules & regs, what is the reasoning behind only allowing package stores to sell cold beer???

 

[TheEngineer]

Same reason we have to cross the border to buy it on Sundays...

 

[snorko]

I have to admit it always concerns me when I see someone, who clearly just got off work and is heading home, buying a cold 40 ozer at the c-store then get in their car and drive away.

 

[TheEngineer]

I have to admit it always concerns me when I see someone, clearly has that just got off work and heading home look, buying a cold 40 ozer at the c-store then get in their car and drive away.

Is there a better way to transport it? Perhaps strapping it to the roof?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I am not a drinker, so I don't usually follow the alcohol rules & regs, what is the reasoning behind only allowing package stores to sell cold beer???

Answer your own question, why are laws passed? To build fences or to seek rents.

This law does both.

 

[kickbacked]

I have to admit it always concerns me when I see someone, clearly has that just got off work and heading home look, buying a cold 40 ozer at the c-store then get in their car and drive away.

how else would you go about having a 40 after a hard days work?

 

[K_W]

It's called Blue Laws.

 

[Classic Liberal]

From what I understand is that it's not that they can't, it's just that that store owner chose not to pay the additional fees for that type of license.

 

[TheEngineer]

From what I understand is that it's not that they can't, it's just that that store owner chose not to pay the additional fees for that type of license.

Nope...its against the law and was recently challenged to no avail

Judge rejects challenge to Indiana cold beer law | Fox News

 

[Classic Liberal]

Huh...I could swear I bought cold beer at a Meijer not just a few week's ago.

 

[CHCRandy]

Liquor stores pay $10,000's each year for each store to guarantee you can't buy it in the stores. They have a % of sales that go to the lobbyists group to make sure they are kept that unfair advantage. My buddy says if they ever let stores sell cold beer....it will shut down his liquor store. He about died when they let Kroger's and Wal-Mart put hard liquor on the shelf's......where any kid can go grab it.

 

[Classic Liberal]

Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe those were the wine coolers for the wife...

 

[Kirk Freeman]

It's called Blue Laws.​

Nothing to do with blue laws. Perhaps green laws.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

I have to admit it always concerns me when I see someone, clearly has that just got off work and heading home look, buying a cold 40 ozer at the c-store then get in their car and drive away.

It always concers me seeing someone get in their car and drive away after buying a gun and ammo.

 

[Trigger Time]

I have to admit it always concerns me when I see someone, clearly has that just got off work and heading home look, buying a cold 40 ozer at the c-store then get in their car and drive away.

Why? Sometimes I buy a cold drink to take home so I can drink it faster. I'm talking non alcoholic like a coke. I don't drink alcohol anymore.

Still dealing with the "thumper" laws in Indiana. People voting beliefs rather than constitution

 

[Trigger Time]

Liquor stores pay $10,000's each year for each store to guarantee you can't buy it in the stores. They have a % of sales that go to the lobbyists group to make sure they are kept that unfair advantage. My buddy says if they ever let stores sell cold beer....it will shut down his liquor store. He about died when they let Kroger's and Wal-Mart put hard liquor on the shelf's......where any kid can go grab it.

Free market.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

And liquor stores can't sell soft drinks cold, either. There have been cases where they were required to move them away from the door in the winter because they were too cold there.

 

[Indy-Mike]

Liquor stores have better lobbyists than the grocery/convenience stores.

 

[oldfb]

The gas station has an unfair advantage.

We get concerned if the guy opens it and chugs half in line out here. Not if he buys one to take home to dinner. Shows he knows enough to control his habit by only having one for the night. Unless it is for 12 shot chasers. Really the fear is that he gets home fast enough that he doesn't wipe out twelve kids walking home from church.

Which is how we end up with laws in the first place. Preemptive policing is the price we are paying because of this fear.

 

[atvdave]

Alcohol laws of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia