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Edit: I suspected this was bogus (that's why I posted it), but I've been leery of Texas alcohol laws ever since a Wise County deputy called my attention to some crazy bootlegging prohibitions that we have. By the way, some folks say the "three sips" law is actually an ordinance in Lefors, Texas (but I wouldn't bet on that either.)
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That smacks of urban legend.
"Kansas liquor stores can't sell anything else at all. I went into one once to buy a bottle of wine, only to find that they couldn't sell me a corkscrew." - Huffington Post
I know for a FACT that this isn't true. The liquor stores in KS are state owned and sell "regular" beer, wine and spirits(and corkscrews). If you buy beer at a gas station or grocery store, it is all 3.2 beer, like in OK.
You actually read the Huffington Post?
I'm with 1:43. Who thinks the Huffington Post is a source of fact?! Get real, dude.
Good LORD what silly urban legends get passed along. This one has never been true, from my research.
I'm surprised that a Texas attorney such as yourself (and by all accounts, a pretty good one) would post this without comment, thereby perpetuating the untruth.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code and Chapter 49 of the Texas Penal Code are really easy to look up and read.
I had a police officer tell me once that if he could not find a good reason to arrest someone he would just revert to the PI since all he had to do is basically say he smelled alcohol.
There is a Texas law that if you read the Huffington Post in Texas, your neighbors have the right to take you out in the street and drunkenly shoot cans off your head.
At least, that's what i heard.
I wish there was a place where they wrote down all these laws. Like a book, or a website.
That's kinda like the "Rule of Thumb"? I really like that one...♫
You would believe anything the Puffington Post says? WOW
Katydid
That is so.....modern.
Double Fake William Tell
3:03
My thoughts, exactly.
Double Fake Little Jack Horner
As to bootlegging...
Back when I was in college in Waco, at a certain Southern Baptist University, you could not buy Coors beer south of the DFW area. This was back in the 70's when Coors beer was not pasteurized and was shipped cold throughout the country.(See Smokey and the Bandit)
So, being creative, some of us from the DFW area would drive up for the weekend and load the trunks of our cars with as much Coors as they would hold.(This is way before Coors Light existed) Then drive back to Waco, and sell it at a slight premium(except for Baptists, we charged them double).
Then, in the late 70's, a guy named Bob Lilly, yes, that Bob Lilly, who is an NFL hall of famer, opened a Coors distributorship in Waco.
So, being the flexible entrepreneurs we were, we started buying as much Coors beer as we could in Waco, filling our car trunks, and visiting our friends in Austin, Houston and College Station. Selling it for a slight premium, of course.
This is back in the days when the cost of gas was floating around $.50/gallon. The premium paid provided for some good times...good times.
Only a liberal weenie would sip beer.
3 sips is all it takes in our little county!
More evidence that everything in the Huffington Post is indeed bogus.
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