Beer vendor liable for drunk driver

selena · 2005-03-06, 08:36 PM

I'm mixed, Linkster. I'm a HUGE advocate of personal responsibility. Huge. If my children posted here, you could ask them how huge.

But I think, as a bartender, I have a duty...if to nothing else to my conscious...than to keep an eye on what I do. I am dealing in an intoxicating agent. And part of the result of what I do for a living (or did do) is that people lose the ability to make rational choices.

That doesn't give them absolution by any means. But if you serve a falling down drunk and he has an accident, then I can see how the lines can be drawn that include you in the circle of events that lead to the accident, yes.

2005-03-06, 08:36 PM	#19
selena Oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert Join Date: May 2004 Location: On the edge Posts: 592	I'm mixed, Linkster. I'm a HUGE advocate of personal responsibility. Huge. If my children posted here, you could ask them how huge. But I think, as a bartender, I have a duty...if to nothing else to my conscious...than to keep an eye on what I do. I am dealing in an intoxicating agent. And part of the result of what I do for a living (or did do) is that people lose the ability to make rational choices. That doesn't give them absolution by any means. But if you serve a falling down drunk and he has an accident, then I can see how the lines can be drawn that include you in the circle of events that lead to the accident, yes. __________________ Doer of Things at MetArtMoney Skype selena.delgado9 ICQ 273551440