LOL
"PeterL" wrote in message
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> "Everyboysmomma" wrote in message
> news:0Muid.40407$JS4.20455@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
>> PS...
>> I wasn't selling it!! It was for personal/party consumption!
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> Oh sure. Your speedometer was broke and the dog ate your homework too.
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>> "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).
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>> >> 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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