PS...
I wasn't selling it!! It was for personal/party consumption!
"Everyboysmomma" wrote in message
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>> 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.
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>> The cars woudl be stopped and the liquor confiscated unelss you
>> had a lot of liquor; then yo would be arrested.
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>> 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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> Connecticut cops have been known to do the same thing in Sturbridge Mass.
> The WORST time to try to stock up was on a Friday night. Usually a
> midweek, midday run was safe... at least they never caught me in the 25
> years I lived in CT!!
> Momma
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