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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Selling alcohol to someone who's already drunk is stupid because you have no idea what they're going to do when they leave, especially if they're driving. I'm pretty sure that I could open up any edition of any newspaper in the country today and find proof of that with virtually no effort. Hell, I could look on Fark to find a story of some drunken idiot doing something to find proof that drunks do stupid things. So yes, selling someone who's only descriptive adjective is "drunk" in the story is wrong.
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Selling alcohol to a patron who "appears" drunk is illegal in any state I've ever been in, and between the military, employment, and general travel, that's a lot of states...
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