"Hatunen" wrote in message
news:000lo0th3g01qkbs3pgn9jc1rfkqje87ho@4ax.com...
> 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.
>
I remember those days, similar with cigarette running from NC up to NY. But
hey they don't bother anyone with a couple of bottles. They try to catch
those with a flat panel truck doing a run.
>
>
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