All you can eat buffets would like a word
This is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story.
They don’t kick you out for buying too much though…they kick you out because you’re an asshole who is annoying everyone else or outright endangering them.
I know that in my state there are laws against over serving. As in, bartenders can actually be liable if someone is over served and then go out and get a DUI or something. It is, imo, fairly ridiculous.
“Over serving” laws let’s them cut you off for being too drunk, not for buying too much.
I have no ideas if the law are the same in every state, but this is incorrect where i am. These laws specifically create liability for a person who serves a drink to a person who is obviously intoxicated. In a bar. It’s obviously puritan-minded bullshit, but the laws do exist, establishments with liquor licenses are required to train employees on them, and people have gotten sued or even prosecuted for them.
These laws specifically create liability for a person who serves a drink to a person who is obviously intoxicated. In a bar.
My point exactly! This is a function of being drunk and how a person acts. It has nothing to do with how much they buy. Come in and drop 100k (hyperbolic number) in “rounds for everybody!” Without drinking anythijg yourself and they’ll never throw you out or cut you off.
I do not agree with this line of thinking at all. If someone gets drunk and drives a car the responsibility for that is not on the bartender for their bad decision, it’s on the driver. The bartender has no idea if, when the person left the bar, they’re heading for their car or an Uber or a bus. Furthermore, the purpose of bars is for people to get drunk. These sorts of laws are absolutely based in “ok we’re going to allow you to sell alcohol but also drinking is BAD and WRONG so we are going to punish you if you, a person who is hired to sell drinks, allows a person to get drunk.” Fuck that puritanical bullshit.
Yes these laws are absolutely absurd
To assign blame, you ask the question “Who could have prevented this?” If a bartender knows that a person has had too much to drink and that they are going to drive, they are aware of the danger that person poses and are therefore required to prevent that danger.
Bars can definitely cut you off without you being an ass.
But what’s funny is that where I live, they can’t refuse to sell to pregnant women.
They will never cut you off for “buying too much”, it’s always related to their behavior and never the fact they purchase a lot.
That’s not strictly true. In some places the bartender can be held criminally liable if they over serve and the patron gets into a crash and kills someone, so even if you aren’t causing issues you can be cut off.
If I may ask, where is that?
Texas, of course.
Pedantry:
I can buy all the drinks I want at a bar. I’m just not allowed to consume them myself.
No bar is going to eject someone just because they’re buying drinks for other people.
On first glance that looks like George W Bush and Nixon enjoying a pint.
Electrical utilities can get mad sometimes too
Water too
And cigarette companies are actively trying to kill their most loyal customers.
I think the chemicals that kill them are also what makes them loyal customers. Bit of a double edged sword situation.
It’s the nicotine that makes them loyal customers. Cigarette companies could very well do without the lead, tar, cadmium, arsenic, and radiation.
Nah, they add a bunch of shit to enhance the addictive properties of nicotine. Nicotine on its own is about as addicting (and harmful) as caffeine.
The delivery system has a lot to do with it too. There’s a reason vaping is so much more effective at quitting smoking than nicotine patches/gum/lozenges.
Sometimes as a therapist, I gotta do that too!
“I’m sorry, but you’re too well. Get the fuck out of my office before I call the cops.”
I’d probably choose different words but yeah 🤣
Only the shitty bars kick you out for drinking too much! /s
The only time I have seem someone get kicked out was when they were starting fights or throwing up. So OP, which was it?
