Roadtrip!

I love my state.

Who's going to bring the batteries?

So, what I got FTA was 'break one, get one free'.

How is that free liquor? You're paying for one to eventually lose two from general circulation.

Is this an attempt at humor?

re-engages sense of humor

I keep it on low power setting to conserve my battery.

What, are you just supposed to suck the wine off the ground like the peasants in A Tale of Two Cities?

Is it sweeps season already? is that why we are seeing this new crop of inane reporting

snarketyfarker: So, what I got FTA was 'break one, get one free'. How is that free liquor? You're paying for one to eventually lose two from general circulation.

1) Buy a bottle
2) Drink most of it (perhaps break it over a sieve to keep the seal)
2a) Break bottle
3) Return bottle pieces for free bottle
4) ???
5) Wake up in bed with a wildebeest

Reason #612 to get rid of state-run liquor stores.

Very proud that my home state (WA) finally came to its senses.

A branch of the government actually provides amicable customer service and the media gets up in arms over it...something is incredibly wrong with this country when we are used to having it so bad that something good makes us want to tattle-incite the vox populi... the horror, the horror.

2 mil a year? How much money was paid out to things like cops being put on paid leave for doing farked up stuff that you wouldn't get a paid vacation for, or lawsuits for cops doing farked up stuff?

Yeah I'll agree that shiatheads who break liquor bottles don't deserve a freebie (but I immediately started thinking 'break a fifth in a big pot, then strain it through a coffee filter' when I read this), but two million bux is so farking chump-change.

/Aware that regular police and sheriffs are not under a state budget, but it's wasted tax money in that state.
//Found one case ONE CASE where the state settled a lawsuit over the conduct of a state trooper for 12.8 MILLION bux.

SoxSweepAgain: Happy Hours: jingks: 2) Drink most of it (perhaps break it over a sieve to keep the seal)

That sounds like a very bad idea. Sure, you'll get the big pieces of glass out, but the tiny ones will tear up your insides. Or so I imagine.

Ohferchrissakes, drink it all, THEN break the bottle.

/Duh.

I was wondering if they check the bottle top to see if it's still sealed.

jingks: SoxSweepAgain: Happy Hours: jingks: 2) Drink most of it (perhaps break it over a sieve to keep the seal)

That sounds like a very bad idea. Sure, you'll get the big pieces of glass out, but the tiny ones will tear up your insides. Or so I imagine.

Ohferchrissakes, drink it all, THEN break the bottle.

/Duh.

I was wondering if they check the bottle top to see if it's still sealed.

PA resident here: The basic deal is, bring in the broken bottle with the seal untampered with and they will replace it no questions asked. Often all they care about is seeing the unopened top and enough of the bottle to identify what it wa.

Aleph: A branch of the government actually provides amicable customer service and the media gets up in arms over it...something is incredibly wrong with this country when we are used to having it so bad that something good makes us want to tattle-incite the vox populi... the horror, the horror.


Err, no. This is a waste of public money. You drop your liquor it's your problem, if you bought it on credit card it may be insured (if you haven't got it home yet). The shop drops its liquor, they presumably have insurance.

In a time when people are low on money, reducng the tax burden for this stuff is the 'little bit of good; we should be celebrating,

buckler: So if you have a glass drill, or even a cutter, you can drain the contents, break the bottle and get a new one? Nice.

You guys aren't going to believe how they get wine out of a bottle with a broken cork.

Errr... My plastic bottle of bathtub vodka broke...

*puts on glasses *

my liver...

Yeeeeaaaah

Wonder how long it will take before they catch on to this little trick ?

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I wish I had heard about this last week. I accidentally dropped a bottle of Jameson in the state store on Saturday afternoon (which just happened to be my birthday - sort of put a damper on the whole day) while juggling with a couple of bags of groceries and a case of beer. Not only did they make me pay for it, which at the time I thought was entirely fair, but I got hollered at by the clerk, which was not very nice of her. What's worse is I broke the last bottle they had in the store.

I think I'll go back this morning with a copy of the article and my receipt. Nothing lost by trying.

buckler: tempesttwilight: jingks: SoxSweepAgain: Happy Hours: jingks: 2) Drink most of it (perhaps break it over a sieve to keep the seal)

That sounds like a very bad idea. Sure, you'll get the big pieces of glass out, but the tiny ones will tear up your insides. Or so I imagine.

Ohferchrissakes, drink it all, THEN break the bottle.

/Duh.

I was wondering if they check the bottle top to see if it's still sealed.

PA resident here: The basic deal is, bring in the broken bottle with the seal untampered with and they will replace it no questions asked. Often all they care about is seeing the unopened top and enough of the bottle to identify what it wa.

So if you have a glass drill, or even a cutter, you can drain the contents, break the bottle and get a new one? Nice.

cutter? maybe. Drill? I assume the shavings/sand from the drilling would mess you up a bit; But add some cheese cloth in the process somewhere, and we may be on to something.

This sort of makes sense...if it is a state-run liqour store, and the store breaks a bottle, of course the state would replace the bottle. It's all state property.

Of course once you buy it, the state shouldn't be refunding your bottle if you drop it.

This being said, I farking hate the idea of state run liqour stores. (Farking VA). Why is the state in the business of selling liquor, and making it so there is no competition? I thought monopolies were supposed to be illegal. (unless the government is doing it, I guess).

The state should not be doing something that should be done by private companies. If they want to make money, they can tax liquor sales like everyone else.

luthia: buckler: tempesttwilight: jingks: SoxSweepAgain: Happy Hours: jingks: 2) Drink most of it (perhaps break it over a sieve to keep the seal)

That sounds like a very bad idea. Sure, you'll get the big pieces of glass out, but the tiny ones will tear up your insides. Or so I imagine.

Ohferchrissakes, drink it all, THEN break the bottle.

/Duh.

I was wondering if they check the bottle top to see if it's still sealed.

PA resident here: The basic deal is, bring in the broken bottle with the seal untampered with and they will replace it no questions asked. Often all they care about is seeing the unopened top and enough of the bottle to identify what it wa.

So if you have a glass drill, or even a cutter, you can drain the contents, break the bottle and get a new one? Nice.

cutter? maybe. Drill? I assume the shavings/sand from the drilling would mess you up a bit; But add some cheese cloth in the process somewhere, and we may be on to something.

I'd rather just break it with cheese cloth. Try to keep the shavings down to a minimum.

Most retail stores carry a policy of "you break it, you buy it,"

Um, no. This is what your mother tells you at six years old while sticking you in a shopping cart to dissuade you from grabbing and toppling every pile of product within reach of you.

Apart from a bogeyman story meant to scare children, it's patently untrue in most cases. Any chain bigger than a Ma & Pa one-off generally doesn't do this.

We had this local restaurant that had just opened, apparently the owner bought a bunch of kegs of beer before he got a liquor license (figuring it was just a paperwork thing). Well, they wouldn't allow the license and the distributor wouldn't take the beer back, his only solution was to give the beer away for free (in my state you can actually give away alcohol without a permit).

So he would do these Saturday night fish fries with free beer, but he didn't advertise it. Needless to say, the first week there were a couple dozen people, the next week there were maybe 100 and the next week the freaking line was around the block for hours.

I talked to the owner, he said he made so much money from those fish fries that he planned to just keep doing it as the cost of kegs of beer was actually cheap to him.

But then the party started as the distributor would not sell to him without a liquor license.

And yes, his Saturday night fish fry gets just a few dozen people today.