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#1

Babe, I have to disagree with you to some degree. Not entirely, just part
way.

In the mid-'80s, I was given the General Manager's position in a large
bowling center just outside of Chicago (don't ask me which one, I won't tell). A
week after I started, a lawyer came in wanting to talk about a suit against
the business by a wheelchair-bound man. Seemed that he and his buddy had
gotten bombed stupid at one bar, and had been cut off there. So, since one of
them was friends with my bar manager, they came to get more drinks. She
refused to serve them one drop and made them leave. They did, and drove right into
a bridge - killing one and crippling the other. We were included in the
lawsuit, not because she served them (obviously), but because she LET THEM
LEAVE. That's where those dram shop laws step way over the bounds of common
sense. She was a bartender, not a blasted babysitter.

- Brian in MI

Babe writes:

I live in a large Mid-Western city where stringent Dram Shop liability
laws do exist. IMO, it should be incumbent on those who dispense
alcoholic beverages to bear some of responsibility for serving alcohol
to an already inebriated individual.

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#2

Brian, I agree with you completely, in this instance.

I consider naming your bar in this lawsuit to be the ultimate in an
egregiously frivolous action!

You didn't say whether the judgement was made against your bar. I
hope not. That would have been a real miscarriage of justice.

BTW, if this suit was filed w/i the boundaries of the dram shop law
which existed at that time, the law went far beyond the bounds of
commonsense. What was your bar manager to do? Wrestle them to
floor for their car keys? Ludicrous!

~Babe~

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Marksalot300@... wrote:

Babe, I have to disagree with you to some degree. Not entirely,
just part way.

........ a lawyer came in wanting to talk about a suit against
the business by a wheelchair-bound man. Seemed that he and his
buddy had gotten bombed stupid at one bar, and had been cut off
there. So, since one of them was friends with my bar manager, they
came to get more drinks. She refused to serve them one drop and
made them leave. They did, and drove right into a bridge - killing
one and crippling the other. We were included in the lawsuit, not
because she served them (obviously), but because she LET THEM
LEAVE. That's where those dram shop laws step way over the bounds
of common sense. She was a bartender, not a blasted babysitter.
- Brian in MI