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> What Government here has decided is that it's acceptable for some > legitimate buyers to be denied their beer, if it reduces the chance of > minors getting some. Well, no, what we have here is a grocery clerk who was mis-informed about a passport being perfectly valid ID in the state of Washington. > What this means is that the officially accepted legal form of ID in > most states is a DMV-issued licence or ID card (that's certainly the > case in CA), and this status extends to transactions such as > beer-buying. Well, yes, but I've also never heard of a state that *doesn't* take a passport. > > liquor-store clerk to reliably assess the legitimacy of, say, a UK > passport. They may have seen 5 or 6 before in their life. And if On the contrary, most bars have a book that shows sample IDs from a variety of places. Besides that, it's an affirmative defense in most, if not all, states, that you made a reasonable effort to verify the validity of the identification. > State ID, they're unlikely to be punished. If they serve alcohol to a > minor based on a passport, they're toast. I *seriously* doubt that. > And, in passing, US beer isn't actually as bad as its reputation. In a > Some of it isn't. But then, I live where the beer is actually *good*. The rest of you poor saps probably don't. :) DarrellThere's stuff above here
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