"Everyboysmomma" wrote in message
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> PS...
> I wasn't selling it!! It was for personal/party consumption!
Oh sure. Your speedometer was broke and the dog ate your homework too.
> "Everyboysmomma" wrote in message
> news:TJuid.40405$JS4.1211@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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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