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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Demon Alcohol
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 08:28:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 08:28:54 1984
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There was a time when you could not drink while standing or moving
about in the State of Washington or the District of Columbia.
You had to ask the waitress to bring your drink to you if you
moved from one place to another.  Further, bars were illegal, at
one time, in Columbia, S. C..  However, there was a nice little
cocktail lounge one block behind the capitol building which
featured a state patrolman in a squad car sitting out front.
Whenever a quorum call came at the capitol, the message was 
relayed to the squad car and the patrolman went into the lounge
and made an announcement to the gaggle of politicians bellyed
up to the bar.  

In Charleston, there was a lounge in a hotel that was raided
about once every three months.  The law reads that the raiders
were to confiscate all liquor that was in sight.  The bar kept
only a minimum supply out front, with the rest locked up in a back
room.  Everyone was satisfied.  The lounge stayed open, the local
law made points by raiding, and the salesmen were able to down
a couple in the evening.  BUT, a new District Attorney, out to
make a name for himself, was elected.  He went along on the 
next raid.  After the law had collected its "liquor in sight"
and were ready to leave, the new DA wanted to know what was behind the 
locked door.  The management, thinking they were safe, opened the
door.  The DA took ALL of the booze in the room.  What a ruckus.
The new DA was booted in the next election and had to leave
town in disgrace.  The lounge did get its booze back when the
judge agreed that it had been taken in an unlawful search and
that it had not been "in sight".  Even the local cops stuck
up for the lounge management.
T. C. Wheeler