Beer vendor liable for drunk driver

[Jim]

When I was younger, I was involved in a lawsuit where the family of a friend of mine sued a bar. My friend, was really drunk and kept drinking. He jumped on his Harley and headed home. Almost home, he hit a telephone poll and was killed. I actually identified the body but that is a different story. Anyway, 2 years later, I was called into court to testify as to how much he had to drink. Not long after that, the bar went out of business.

[Useless]

You can get sued for allowing party guests at your home to drive home intoxicated, so why shouldn't someone who gains financially by getting people drunk assume some sort of liability?

A side note, since the McDonald's coffee thing was mentioned. In one of the cases against their insanely hot fucking coffee the woman who spilled the coffee on her lap had to have plastic surgery on her thighs and labia due to the burns. Yet those silly teenage fucks refuse to turn down the settings on their coffee pots. The shit tastes burned anyway, why do people buy it?