Authorities would tend to only crack down if people are engaging in commercial-scale smuggling operations. They are unlikely to notice or care if you have a six-pack or two.

Just like running cigarettes from Virginia to points north. When the price difference is $4-5 per pack then it can be highly profitable.

That seems like a violation of the Commerce Clause, doesn't it?

It's like that in Utah. We are bordered by Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming. The state of Utah in it's socialistic bent is the sole distributor of alcohol (except 3.2 beer) Most people I know make a run for the border every month or so. We do not want to pay tax and markup to support the mormon theocracy.


/mormons

So Mass. is 75 years behind the south by having ordinary people hiding from the revenuers.
Nice

"Are we going to camp along the border in the hope that we're going to see evidence of someone carrying a closed container of alcohol into Massachusetts for personal consumption? That would be ludicrous,'' said David Procopio, a State Police spokesman. "That would not be intelligent policing.

hmm. I wonder what happens if we change the wording a bit...

"Are we going to camp along the border in the hope that we're going to see evidence of someone carrying 3 ounces of pot into Massachusetts for personal consumption? That would be ludicrous,'' said David Procopio, a State Police spokesman. "That would not be intelligent policing.

DarthBrooks

The 21st Amendment was generally understood to give states full authority to regulate alcohol. In recent years the Supreme Court has basically repealed the 21st Amendment except to the extent that it repealed the 18th. (Wikipedia info)

ozzie_stu: Running hooch ? this bada$$ dude would like a word...



Banner: Are you the beer baron?
Comic Book Guy: Yes, but only by night. By day, I'm a mild-mannered reporter for a major Metropolitan newspaper.
Banner: Don't crack wise with me, tubby!
Comic Book Guy: Tubby? Oh yes, tubby.


Banner: Are you the beer baron??
Ned: Well, if you're talking about root beer, I plead guilt- diddily-ildly as char-didily-arged!
Banner: He's not the baron, but he sounds drunk. Take him in.


Banner: Listen, rummy, I'm gonna say it plain and simple. Where'd you pinch the hooch? Is some blind tiger jerking suds on the side?
Barney: Yes...?


/Best episode ever!

DarthBrooks: That seems like a violation of the Commerce Clause, doesn't it?

The Commerce Clause is trumped by the 21st Amendment, as far as alcohol goes.

The only reasons anyone I ever knew had to go to Indiana (besides driving through it) were for alcohol, tobacco, and fireworks.

Living for a number of months on the border, I'd say that's pretty accurate.

starlost: its been 10 years since i lived there but pennsylvania taxmen would nail people going to maryland for booze. they could charge by the individual bottle/can. i think the fine was $25 per item. so if they felt like it they'd charge you the $25 for every can of beer.

[low whistle] Wow. I managed to bring back at least a dozen cheap bottles of duty free vodka over the border, two at a time (one for me, one for my friend), before I got pulled over to pay the duty in Canada. Apparently you have to spend a full 24 hours there to bring back a bottle per person duty free, and not just a night, oops. Even then the duty was under $25.

Panty Sniffer: Ed Willy: Flagrant disregard for liquor laws and crossing state lines to score beer?



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He was hauling Coors. That's not beer. I remember when it wasn't available everywhere and it was the cool thing to have. People would ship it from Colorado. Now people don't even go to the 7-Eleven to buy it.

"Well, placin' you under arrest for transportin' alcoholic beverages across state lines without the proper permits. And that means you, you dumb cowboy. You know truckin' Coors beer east of Texas is bootleggin'. - This here's Georgia, son."

I'm drinking strong Belgian beer, so I'm really getting a medium-strength tickle on the nipples out of this thread.

Panty Sniffer: Well, sparklers are permitted unless you are in Chicago. Because you know, Chicago kids cannot figure out that a stick of burning magnesium might be hot.

I snuck sparklers into an outdoor festival in Chicago a number of years back, so I'm getting a kick out of the fact that I apparently broke the law. They were banned from the festival, but then again, so was everything else (pretty much everything except money and two bottles of water) so I didn't really care.

Seriously, effing sparklers?