# Giving wine to children **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 19, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-wine-to-children/265011 "2004-09-19T17:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Testy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Testy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Testy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-wine-to-children/265011/81 "2004-09-22T15:41:11Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > See, now that’s just wrong. You can have it, but you can’t buy it? How are you supposed to get it, the booze fairy? Yes, you put a glass and a 1 liter bottle of mixer under your pillow and the next morning . . . 😃 Actually, most of the dry counties have “unofficial” suppliers who pay a large but also unofficial tax (in small, unmarked bills) to the local law-enforcement guys who then turn a blind eye. The suppliers have strict rules about who they’ll sell alcohol. Any person buying beer **must** have cash money and be able to reach over the counter. Age is pretty much not applicable. It really is a problem and it’s caused by the bible-thumpers around there. A politician campaigning to repeal the alcohol prohibition will be characterized by his opponent as a sot, and by the bible-thumpers as the next thing to the antichrist. The local law enforcement also has a vested interest in keeping things as they are. A funny side-effect is the liquor stores placed about 6 inches over the county line. I know of one where you drive through a hellish swamp, no lights, two lane road and heavy forest all around. Black as hell at night. When you come around the last curve there are about a dozen liquor stores in a neat clump. Huge displays and billboards etc. It looks like a tiny piece of Las-Vegas got lost. Regards Testy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-wine-to-children/265011.md?page=4)