Re: Phone numbers and form fields

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From: Darrell Fuhriman
Subject: Re: Phone numbers and form fields
Date: 07:11 on 09 Mar 2005
> 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. :)

Darrell

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