You are not even safe in the bars, America!
Maybe this will finally outrage the populace.
Once you start going after 'Murkns beer, well...
"Investigators ring in '08 by hitting bars, stores to prevent drunken driving" by Sarah Metcalf, Globe Correspondent | January 1, 2008
Ted Mahony had had enough of spending his New Year's collecting intoxicated students passed out in the road.
Mahony, chief investigator for the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission:
"We found ourselves picking young people up out of the gutter - and that's in a literal sense."
You find any homeless while you were in there digging out the kids?
Mahony and 10 other investigators rang in 2008 focused on preventing underage drinking and drunken driving by going straight to the source - the bars and liquor stores that provide the alcohol:
"We're doing something that is relatively on the cutting edge of liquor enforcement around the country. We find that if we can get into the bars and prevent them from serving the alcohol, we can have a greater overall impact."
The investigators spent yesterday monitoring liquor store parking lots in the Boston area to spot minors receiving alcohol, and at night canvassed popular night life areas such as Faneuil Hall and the Theatre District, hoping to prevent visibly intoxicated individuals from driving.
I guess it makes sense to keep drunk drivers off the roads, but these guys don;'t have anything better to do than stake out package-store parking lots?
We are paying them for this?
In a culture that promotes alcohol like you wouldn't believe?
Pffffffftttt!
The investigators, who Mahony said were all undercover and over 21 years of age, entered establishments and checked IDs and monitored the bartenders to ensure clearly inebriated patrons were not served. If an individual was deemed unable to drive, investigators arranged for a ride or placed the person in protective custody for the night, Mahony said.
I mean, really, is this what we are paying them for?
To go around the bars and evaluate drunkenness?
Looking to "PC" people?
Umm, no thanks, I'd rather wake up in my own puke, ociffer!
The commission, under the supervision of state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, has been cracking down on underage drinking and drunken driving during their annual holiday season program, "Operation Safe Holidays."
Cahill, in a press release: "I am proud of the ABCC investigators' work."
The operation, which relies more on prevention than punishment, ultimately places as much of the responsibility for alcohol-related accidents on the establishment that serves the last drink prior to the crash as the individual behind the wheel, Mahony said, adding that he tends to focus more on repeat offenders, who account for about 2 percent of the roughly 10,000 bars and restaurants in Massachusetts.
Since the program launched prior to Thanksgiving, investigators have visited about 700 bars in 61 communities, according to a press release, resulting in about 60 violations and preventing more than 100 people from drunken driving."
You guys don't have anything better to do than hang around bars?
You guys are as bad as my youngest daughter!
So much for going CLUBBING, 'eh, kiddos?
