Swede sues bar for getting her drunk

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T_Bone wrote:

Vincent wrote:
I'd expect something like this from an American :roll:, but it's surprising coming from Sweden.

If she was an American, the bar would be in even more trouble, she's underage  :-)

Hehe.
The legal drinking age here is 18. You're not allowed to buy it in the liqour stores until you're 20, though.

This case is just plain wierd, though. It prooves that the government is right by keeping the prices on alcohol up. :-D

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Vincent wrote:
I'd expect something like this from an American :roll:, but it's surprising coming from Sweden.

We're very conservative here when it comes to alcohol.
The government controls allmost all (legal) sales of alcohol, and they keep prices at an insane level just to keep people from buying.
Thank goodness I only have three kilometres across the straits to Denmark! :lol:

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jonssonj wrote:
In Sweden we are allowed to get into the bars when we are 18 years old. How is it in the USA?

I think it's 21, though I'm not sure.

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that_punk_guy wrote:

Cyberus wrote:
IIRC, and I'm sure a Brit will correct me if I'm wrong, we have no drinking age in Britain, only a minimum age for buying alcohol to consume. i.e. If I give my 13 year old nephew a beer when he comes to visit me, neither him nor me are breaking the law...

Correct, although I think you have to be 14 or over to be allowed in the bar area of a pub.

My dad took me for a beer when I was 15 and made a big deal out of it because he only once got the chance to drink with his own dad. Whenever we're at a bar now (thankfully not very often) he tries to talk me into drinking, which pisses me off...  :-x

Same here. minors are allowed to drink under the supervision of adults. Letting kids get drunk would probably be a crime though...