The new law is for ID scanners to be at every place alcohol is sold. I don't think it's a bad law. But I do reject the framing as this kid as a victim. He bought alcohol numerous times and drove drunk. It caught up to him and he crashed. He's not a victim.
Edit - The mother initiated a civil suit against the store, but the jury rejected her claim
The new law is for ID scanners to be at every place alcohol is sold. I don't think it's a bad law.
It’s an unnecessary cost because of a lowered societal trust and an increasing nanny state as a result. These are the straws that make up the government bloat.
I mean, we've already degenerated as a society when we started selling alcohol and other vices like it at places like a grocery store to begin with. It we are going to just leave major temptations out in the open around children, we should probably at least put a token effort in to preventing them from getting to it.
It shouldn't need a law, its already illegal to sell to minors. It should be just basic planning.
Theoretically the barcode on the back calls to the DOT database and if there's a record matching it comes back as valid, if not it comes back as fake. Where I live it just says "yes there's a match" it doesn't pull up any further information due to privacy laws. Obviously the way around that is to just copy a valid barcode, but I would hope any mass use of the same barcode would be flagged.
That's what I'm wondering. There's a lot of strict liability laws when it comes to selling alcohol to minors. I'd hope the clerk's ass would be covered in the event of a false negative.
The new law is for ID scanners to be at every place alcohol is sold. I don't think it's a bad law. But I do reject the framing as this kid as a victim. He bought alcohol numerous times and drove drunk. It caught up to him and he crashed. He's not a victim.
Edit - The mother initiated a civil suit against the store, but the jury rejected her claim
It’s an unnecessary cost because of a lowered societal trust and an increasing nanny state as a result. These are the straws that make up the government bloat.
I agree in principle but since we are in a low trust society the necessity is debatable, unfortunately.
I mean, we've already degenerated as a society when we started selling alcohol and other vices like it at places like a grocery store to begin with. It we are going to just leave major temptations out in the open around children, we should probably at least put a token effort in to preventing them from getting to it.
It shouldn't need a law, its already illegal to sell to minors. It should be just basic planning.
Good. The store should now counter-sue.
How do ID scanners stop fake IDs?
Theoretically the barcode on the back calls to the DOT database and if there's a record matching it comes back as valid, if not it comes back as fake. Where I live it just says "yes there's a match" it doesn't pull up any further information due to privacy laws. Obviously the way around that is to just copy a valid barcode, but I would hope any mass use of the same barcode would be flagged.
In reality it does little to nothing.
Or paying adults to make purchase for them.
That's what I'm wondering. There's a lot of strict liability laws when it comes to selling alcohol to minors. I'd hope the clerk's ass would be covered in the event of a false negative.
They don't.
They'll make it worse.
The cashier won't even look if they don't have to. Just swipe, wait for the beep, complete the sale.
This is the worst idea.
I'm sure they won't stop good counterfeiters.
I bet the screeching from the mother after that rejection could be heard from three counties away.