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Re: Swede sues bar for getting her drunk
« on: April 05, 2004, 12:25:48 PM »
 

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Re: Swede sues bar for getting her drunk
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2004, 12:15:18 PM »
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The money should be paid out to her. Not because she deserves it, but because bar keepers can be greedy {bleep}s and keep selling stuff to people who've obviously had too much. Hit them in the pocket. That'll teach 'em.


Hmm, fair point. Unfortunately, the more drunk a customer gets, the more likely they are to cause trouble when you cut them off. Better to drink them under the table, ha ha! :-D

Seriously though, this is just opportunism, which in the end hurts people who have genuine claims.
 

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Re: Swede sues bar for getting her drunk
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2004, 02:26:21 PM »
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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
 

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Re: Swede sues bar for getting her drunk
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2004, 02:42:36 PM »
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A person under eighteen shall be guilty of an offence if, in a bar in licensed premises, he consumes intoxicating liquor.


Although apparently if you're sixteen you can have a beer with your pub lunch, you just can't buy it.

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/20000030.htm

So an under 18 can't drink in a bar (at least not legally ;-))  but drinking off licensed premises appears to be unregulated.