at a certain time at night?

shit's baffling to me.

i've only been once and i still haven't resolved that shit.

that was three years ago, in bah-ginia.

is it just some backwards-country shit?

does it happen north of the mason-dixon?

I'm sure they spent many a night there.

apparently legally here (Toronto) you can't have a drink in your hand at a bar after 2:45am Last call is 2am

i wanted to fight those clowns.

ruined my whole day.

if TABC comes through(and they stop by all the time), they shut your bar down, and the fine is 5 figures. So it's pretty SOP to pull drinks at 2:05 or 2:10.

And counties where you have to buy a club membership to get a drink at a restaurant.

They make so much money off taxing bars, it's crazy. Tax you when you buy it, tax you when you sell it, it's a freaking racket. That's apart from paying sales and income tax.

And I probably partied there a couple hundred times

I've only had to forcefully take a person's drink 4 or 5 times over the years.

i was playing a foosball tournament its 230 am its the finals, they say they have to take all of our drinks


wtf man im sweating buckets here

145am they come around taking drinks of the tables. 2am curfew here.

that's why i like quick trips to Tahoe (nevada side), reno or vegas. drink 24/7

we let people know to finish their drinks at 2am, but if they don't, we will remove the drinks from them a few mins later. I'm not getting in trouble with ABC.

So I did.

Then they watched me stagger to my car and waited for me to drive off so they could call the cops.

So I sat on the hood of the car and flicked them off.

*drunk stories*

blue laws, dry counties and 3.2 beer

especially if you're not familiar with the practice ... or law, whatever.

Here, we just kick folks out at a certain time, and they can't take drinks outside. Not sure about spots that stay open past 2am, but I've never seen any enforcement beyond *last call* and shutting the bar down.

it happened to me in virginia.

im never going back.

always thought last call was just about when they can serve the last drink...never been to a place that made you finish or toss your drink as well

looking around at everyone thinking to myself 'yall just gonna stand for this??, these our drinks!'

everybody just fell in line.

i spent the rest of the night smoking in the parking lot.

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drink if I can't finish it?"


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but take it out my hand? I would be heated

the worst case I ever had was some frat boy type dude with his gf and I told him we needed to take up drinks but that I'd give him time to finish it, he said he would finish the drink when he felt like it. At this point when you say this to a door guy, you've basically sealed your fate. As I reached for the drink, he threw it on me. So, now he's getting walked, I'm still not really mad, but it's getting there. So I'm behind him walking him out and he tries to hold onto a railing by the front door in attempts to resist me. I had to use necessary force to get him to let go of the rail, which resulted in him getting body slammed a little bit, somewhat accidentally, he was only like a little 180 pound dude, and not a fighter's 180 pound build, a weak, sloppy 180.

In Texas, on private property, and that's what a business is, private property, not public, when a representative of that property asks you to leave and you don't comply, you can practically shoot them(not really but you get the idea), and when you have witnesses that see him refusing to leave and being belligerent you can physically remove them.

I'm so glad I don't work in a bar anymore, enough people are horrible pieces of shit that you start to hate everyone.

I've never taken a drink without someone conceding it to me first, and the place I work in now closes at 1AM at the latest so I don't have any legal right to force people to hurry up (I just won't serve them anymore), but when I was open until 2 there was definitely a really strong push to get drinks out of people's hands by 2:05. I'm not sure if this is actually the law but that's what I was told; at any rate, we certainly couldn't allow anyone drinking on the patio to stay on the patio where they could be seen by police passing by.


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apparently they had a hard time getting drinks out of hands by 2AM so they had last call around 1:15.

...until all the drinks are finished.

They send the staff around to collect all the bottle, glasses etc. And they absolutely will not continue the party until they're 100% sure that all the drinks are done.

That well-lit, musicless period of time is pretty pathetic.