Comments on: State set to ice Ice http://seattle.metblogs.com/2006/08/30/state-set-to-ice-ice/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:15:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: COMTE http://seattle.metblogs.com/2006/08/30/state-set-to-ice-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-2868 COMTE Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:59:08 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2006/08/30/state-set-to-ice-ice/#comment-2868 I keep wondering how this is even legal, since it's not a full-on state-wide ban. I suppose it just comes down to the fact that street alcoholics aren't prone to hire lawyers to test the constitutionality of these measures. The WSLCB approves these AIA's, but in reality, they just keep moving the problem from one neighborhood to another. The drunks are going to go where ever the cheap booze is, which means, instead of hanging out in P-Square or CapHill, they'll be moving up into Greenwood, Wallingford, et al. So, this doesn't do anything to solve the actual problem of how to cope with hard-core alcoholics, it just aleviates the symptom of certain neighborhoods having to look at them every day. I keep wondering how this is even legal, since it’s not a full-on state-wide ban. I suppose it just comes down to the fact that street alcoholics aren’t prone to hire lawyers to test the constitutionality of these measures.

The WSLCB approves these AIA’s, but in reality, they just keep moving the problem from one neighborhood to another. The drunks are going to go where ever the cheap booze is, which means, instead of hanging out in P-Square or CapHill, they’ll be moving up into Greenwood, Wallingford, et al. So, this doesn’t do anything to solve the actual problem of how to cope with hard-core alcoholics, it just aleviates the symptom of certain neighborhoods having to look at them every day.

]]> By: Tom http://seattle.metblogs.com/2006/08/30/state-set-to-ice-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-2867 Tom Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:35:38 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2006/08/30/state-set-to-ice-ice/#comment-2867 Man, out here in Detroit, I think I would help lead a riot if they took away my Schlitz Bull Ice (8% alcohol by volume) and I don't think I'd be the only one..... Man, out here in Detroit, I think I would help lead a riot if they took away my Schlitz Bull Ice (8% alcohol by volume) and I don’t think I’d be the only one…..

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