On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:43:45 -0800, "PeterL"
wrote:
>
>"Tiger" wrote in message
>news:ppmko0h4pdemlb2p26ios1igh18c5t9cb2@4ax.com...
>> I see from the state website that it is illegal to take liquor into
>> Alabama. How is this policed? Is my car likely to be searched at the
>> Georgia/Alabama border when I drive from Atlanta airport with my UK
>> bottle of duty free next week?
>>
>
>You are kidding right? That's not even logical. I take it they don't want
>anyone transporting liquor to Alabama for sale, without paying taxes first.
Not necessarily kidding. I don't know how it is today but back
when I was a bit younger Ohio had much cheaper liquor than
Pennsylvania. Most of the time the Pennsy police didn't bother
anyone. But as the Xmas holdiays got nearere, the police would
take an unmarked car to the closer Ohio liquor stores and radio
the license plate of anyone coming out and loading up a
Pennsylvaia car to state polices just inside Pennsylvania.
The cars woudl be stopped and the liquor confiscated unelss you
had a lot of liquor; then yo would be arrested.
The rationale was that Pennsylvania taxes hadn't been paid on the
liquor (rather like smuggling cigarettes).
I worked for a while at an engineering office in Youngstown OH,
which is quite near Pennsylvania. At lunch time in the holiday
seasons coworkers from Pennsylvania would head out to liquor
stores on the west side where there wouldn't be any Pennsy cops
observing license plates.
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