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From: bowles@cbosgd.UUCP (Jeff Bowles)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Partying and Driving!?!
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Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 23:53:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 23:53:28 1984
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There's a problem here:

I hold a party, BYOL. Joe comes there, drinks (his booze, someone else's
booze, it doesn't matter), and on his way out, wraps his car around my
neighbor's tree. I didn't provide the booze, but I'm still liable for his
irresponsibility?

Or, try this one:

I hold a party, and limit everyone to one beer. (No one goes to my parties
after that stunt, lemme tell ya...) Joe leaves my place, walks into a liquor
store and buys a bottle of Wild Turkey. He downs it in the car and chucks the
bottle, then passes out [from alcohol poisoning] in the car and wraps it around
the tree. (Is this what they mean by "tie one on"?) The police haul me away,
because he was drinking at my party and I can't prove that he was sober when
he left. (Witnesses? Joe was the last to leave, everyone else went to see
"E.T." for the tenth time.) I don't know how he got so drunk.

How many centuries in Purgatory will I spend for Joe's death?

	Jeff Bowles
	Lisle, IL