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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Drunk Sex = Rape ? (was Re: Mysogynist Bullshit)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.122746.4831@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:27:46 GMT
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- amy lynn young-leith (alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1jl2moINNlq3@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- : >Karl brings up an interesting question. Suppose a person (let's remove
- : >gender, and just talk about drunkenness) goes to a restaurant and gives
- : >the key to the valet, then gets drunk, then gets the key back from the
- : >valet, drives, and gets in a traffic accident. Is the restaurant
- : >liable?
- :
- : I don't think they are.
- :
- : >I believe that CA has a law that hosts who allow party guests to
- : >drive home drunk are liable for damages caused if the drunk gets in
- : >an accident. Anyone else know more about this?
-
- I think the only situation where this applies is in a situation where
- alcohol is sold and consumed on the same premises i.e. A bar or restaurant,
- in that the bar tender or waiter can refuse to serve alcohol to someone
- who they consider to be intoxicated.
-
- At a party, who is selling the alcohol?
-
- Giving somone responsability for anothers drunkeness only makes sense if that
- person has control over the supply of alcohol (and the ability to tell if
- the person is drunk). A bar tender or waiter is in a position to do this.
-
- The host of a party is unlikely to be able to.
-
- :
- : Again, this is another attempt to pawn off responsability. Why should
- : those who sell drinks have to play babysitter? The same is seemingly
- : happening with gun sellers as well. Someone sells a gun by legal
-
- (or a kitchen knife, an axe, large lump of wood)
-
- : means, and if that gun is used in a murder, the victim's family tries
- : to prosecute the seller of the gun. If it's legal to sell guns, then
- : there's nothing wrong with selling them! It's the person who uses it
- : for an illegal use that should be prosecuted!! What's next, someone
- : OD's on aspirin, and we sue Krogers because they sold it to them??
-
- Unfortunatly there are people daft enough to try this (and people even
- dafter who will back them up).
- :
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