# That never happened to me before in 10+ years of clubbing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-never-happened-to-me-before-in-10-years-of-clubbing/254661 "2004-07-12T04:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-never-happened-to-me-before-in-10-years-of-clubbing/254661/41 "2004-11-11T16:11:15Z")
> [@missbunny](#): > > Colophon, it doesn’t matter if the customer is inside the bar. The bartender has no way of knowing if the customer plans to leave or what mode of transportation he plans to use. A customer doesn’t even have to leave at all: he can do something like be so drunk that he passes out and smashes his face into a glass, and he can sue the bartender for serving him. Or he can leave and say he’s walking and then get into his car anyway (drunk people are notorious for thinking they’re “fine” when they are not). Or he can actually BE walking and he trips and falls and breaks his neck. > That’s why bartenders still decline to serve people who swear on a stack of Bibles that they aren’t driving. Because whether they are or not doesn’t really matter. In most cases, there’s a big difference in someone being visibly too intoxicated to appropriately serve, and the legal driving limit which is .08 in most states these days, I believe. If bars were not allowed to serve any customers at all after they’d reached the _legal driving BAC level_ (if say, you had to blow a breathalyzer before recieving a drink each and every time) there would very soon be no bars, for they’d all go out of business. ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-never-happened-to-me-before-in-10-years-of-clubbing/254661/42 "2004-11-11T16:17:03Z")
Er…I got to this thread via a link in another thread, and neglected to look at the dates of the OP, and just realized this after I posted it. It was actually kind of a string of threads that got me here, because one Pit thread referred me to a slightly older post, to which I followed a link to yet another older post, which I think might have prompted me to click on an even older link than that, and I have _far_ too many windows open as well as reading too many threads at once on far too little caffiene and got confuzzled. _blushes sheepily_ Sorry for bumping an old thread. ☹ _trundles off to go make more coffee, still blushing_ ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-never-happened-to-me-before-in-10-years-of-clubbing/254661/43 "2004-11-11T16:19:56Z")
The OP is a prime example of why I only go to a place where everybody knows my name. And they’re always glad I came. I like to go where people know, our troubles are all the same. We like to go where everybody knows our names. Tripler :: d & r :: ---
**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-never-happened-to-me-before-in-10-years-of-clubbing/254661/44 "2004-11-11T16:45:03Z")
Damn, now I miss Ottawa, thanks a lot **Cerri**! Just kidding 😉 Anyway, I didn’t really want to mention this, but now that this thread was bumped, it’s the perfect place to do so: On Halloween I was at one of the discos around here and they actually kicked one guy out, because he was too drunk! Ok, that guy couldn’t even stand straight anymore, so it was probably a good idea to do so, but I’m quite shocked nonetheless, because I claimed they wouldn’t do this here. ---
**Author:** ![blinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@blinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinx)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-never-happened-to-me-before-in-10-years-of-clubbing/254661/45 "2004-11-11T17:57:55Z")
Just posting to say I’m surprised that you can get kicked out of a bar for being drunk, I thought that was kind of how they made their money, serving liquor and getting people drunk. I think you’d have to throw up on someone for that to happen I the bars I’ve visited. Silly americans 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-never-happened-to-me-before-in-10-years-of-clubbing/254661/46 "2004-11-11T18:13:05Z")
> [@blinx](#): > > Just posting to say I’m surprised that you can get kicked out of a bar for being drunk, I thought that was kind of how they made their money, serving liquor and getting people drunk. I think you’d have to throw up on someone for that to happen I the bars I’ve visited. > > Silly americans 🙂 Well, this happened in Canada and as I said, I recently saw someone being kicked out in Germany as well. With Barrymore’s it kinda made sense: Since there was a huge line outside, they could sell more stuff by kicking out people, who’ve had enough, and filling that space with the guys outside 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-never-happened-to-me-before-in-10-years-of-clubbing/254661.md?page=2)