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Ellipsis

(9,123 posts)
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 09:41 PM Sep 2022

137 people cited for underage drinking at Wisconsin bar

MADISON, Wis. (WFRV) — On Thursday, police checked the IDs of 143 people at a bar in Madison, Wisconsin. Only six were of age.

Police with the Madison Police Department were conducting “proactive enforcement” in downtown Madison on Sept. 1, visiting bars in the neighborhood and checking to see if the venues were enforcing liquor laws, police wrote in an incident report.

At one of the bars, officers cited 137 people for underage drinking or having false IDs. They did not name the bar, but noted that it was located within the 600 block of Main Street.


“MPD is actively working with the establishment on this investigation, and they will not be named at this time until further steps are taken to determine the bar’s role in the matter,” police wrote.

Officers added that more citations are “likely.”

Not much more at the link.

https://wgntv.com/news/137-people-cited-for-underage-drinking-at-wisconsin-bar/


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137 people cited for underage drinking at Wisconsin bar (Original Post) Ellipsis Sep 2022 OP
Methinks you can kiss a liquor license goodbye. Sneederbunk Sep 2022 #1
. Ellipsis Sep 2022 #3
I'd say put the legal age back to 18 jimfields33 Sep 2022 #4
How about the waste of resources packing their young Phoenix61 Sep 2022 #7
That would never happen here in Idaho. They pull stings on convenience stores for cigarette sales. brewens Sep 2022 #2
College Is In Session! Deep State Witch Sep 2022 #5
Wisconsin has been serving 18 year old people alcohol nocoincidences Sep 2022 #6
Good heavens, it's the University of Wisconsin. Of course there's underage drinking. Ocelot II Sep 2022 #8
600 W Main would be the Echo. Or Main Depot. AllyCat Sep 2022 #9
the bar was the city bar on state street according to the wisconsin state journal moonshinegnomie Sep 2022 #17
That's the madtown I know and love moonshinegnomie Sep 2022 #10
you are me. riversedge Sep 2022 #15
actually im a fib :) moonshinegnomie Sep 2022 #16
I love madtown. spent many years there and know the bars. good times. riversedge Oct 2022 #20
I really don't understand how this is even possible. stopdiggin Sep 2022 #11
Right? sybylla Sep 2022 #13
I've read Wisconsin has the highest drinking per capita is the US captain queeg Sep 2022 #12
We need the alcohol to dissolve the cheese & brats (NT) HuskyOffset Sep 2022 #14
On Wisconsin is right..... a kennedy Sep 2022 #18
I have memories of visiting my sister when she lived there captain queeg Sep 2022 #19

jimfields33

(15,464 posts)
4. I'd say put the legal age back to 18
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 09:57 PM
Sep 2022

I’m sorry but what a waste of resources, time and energy. Either make everything 21 or everything 18. It’s ridiculous to take right from adults.

Phoenix61

(16,953 posts)
7. How about the waste of resources packing their young
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 10:33 PM
Sep 2022

bodies into body bags. The drinking age was 18 when I was 18. The reality was high school parties where hunch punch was the beverage of choice. That I’m here to write this is nothing short of a miracle. I’ve got a long list of those not so fortunate.

brewens

(13,397 posts)
2. That would never happen here in Idaho. They pull stings on convenience stores for cigarette sales.
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 09:48 PM
Sep 2022

I know a guy that got a big fine even though the kid had a really good fake ID. He was a checker at a Rosaures.

nocoincidences

(2,195 posts)
6. Wisconsin has been serving 18 year old people alcohol
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 10:25 PM
Sep 2022

since I was 18, and I am 74 now.

Just look up the history of Hurley Wisconsin.

moonshinegnomie

(2,408 posts)
10. That's the madtown I know and love
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 10:54 PM
Sep 2022

Of course the drinking age was 18 when I went there but uw has always been a drinking school

ON WISCONSIN

moonshinegnomie

(2,408 posts)
16. actually im a fib :)
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 05:50 PM
Sep 2022

when to school at uw and then moved back to madtown after i retired so i could walk to badger games.
but could only handle 3 winters before i threw in the towel and moved to austin

stopdiggin

(11,092 posts)
11. I really don't understand how this is even possible.
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 11:06 PM
Sep 2022

And, yes - I'm taking into account college town, college students, cheeseheads - and blah, blah, blah.

But, really - 137 fake (or underage) IDs - out of 143? That's ridiculous. I don't care if it is Madison, UW. That's a business that is blatantly aiding and abetting. Pull the license!

sybylla

(8,464 posts)
13. Right?
Mon Sep 5, 2022, 06:56 AM
Sep 2022

It sounds like more than a single employee flouting the law. It sounds like a whole establishment.

captain queeg

(10,036 posts)
19. I have memories of visiting my sister when she lived there
Wed Sep 28, 2022, 10:12 PM
Sep 2022

I know I wasn’t more than 20 but I go to the brewery tours where you could drink your fill for free. Pretty cool and I didn’t drive, just got dropped off and picked up
Later. Way before cell phones by the way.

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