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Originally Posted by Theresa
some of you may recall that recently I posted a prayer request for my stepsons who's aunt was killed in a drunk driving accident...SHE was the drunk. She got on the highway going the wrong way and hit a car head on, killing herself, her passenger and the unborn child of the female passenger in the other vehicle.
The family is suing the insurance company for the vehicle she was driving, as it was insured through her boyfriends construction company....
they are also trying to sue the bar/bartender that served her last...supposedly. Now I hear she didnt actually drink in the bar she left last, she was just there.
Here's the kicker:
They all had seen her earlier that same day, much earlier in the day, and she was already drunk. BUT - she got up in the mornings drinking. She had to drink to maintain. She could be totally blitzed out of her mind and unless you knew her, or smelled her, you'd never know it and she left the bar about 9-9:30, much earlier than the normal bar crowd. How is the bar or bartender responsible if she was KNOWN to be a very normal looking drunk?
How is the bar or bartender EVER responsible for the actions of another adult?
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Theresa, I am in agreement with you. The only way that a bar could ever hope to enforce something keeping drunks off the road would be if they confiscated everyone's keys as they walked in the door and then made them do a breathalizer as they walked out.
Otherwise, good grief, you know they do. They'll drink till they're drunk, then go outside and stand in the aprking lot doing all kinds of whatever for who knows how long. Then maybe come back in and drink again. OR maybe get in the car and drive off.
I WISH that there was a way that bars could enforce better behavior. But the only way they could do that would be to close their doors completely and go out of business.
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