Concealed beer permit?
A funny thing happened to me at the Utah Art Festival.When I attempted to purchase a tasty Summer Solstice Ale, I was waylaid by the beer security crew. I had to prove that I am an adult. A reasonable precaution.
At that point I learned that my driver's license had expired and was not valid proof that I am 21+ years old. The polite crew told me I would have to produce a passport or other government-issued I.D. before I could get wristband and quench my thirst.
I didn't have my passport — but I did possess, like many Utahns, Ugandans and Uruguayans — a Utah Concealed Firearm Permit card that proves my date of birth. Problem solved.
Hopes dashed: The crew informed me that the Utah Alcohol Beverage Control board does not accept the Utah Concealed Firearm Permit as valid I.D.
Now let me get this straight: My concealed gun permit proves I am old enough and honest enough to not only buy a gun, say a .50 cal. Desert Eagle pistol, but hide it on my person and walk around the art festival.
But is not adequate proof that I can buy a beer!
Fortunately, the crew suggested that I get a nearby adult to buy me a cold one (apparently forgetting that I am theoretically an underage hoodlum). And I did.
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You can have my brew when you pry it from my cold, dead fist!
So, it's OK to pack heat and gun down miscreants, but celestial heaven-forbid you have a cold one on a hot day.
Only in the Empire of Utah.
G-man,
I know it sucks. I used to have to check the IDs of 78-year-olds at the Arts Festival. Believe me, when you ask a man for ID who is obviously old enough to have been drinking during Prohibition, it gets awkward for both parties.
And some believe the state's theocratic liquor laws will be eased. It's not in the Mormon liturgy.
Perhaps if you had showed the ID checkers your bishop recommend . . .
It's Utah.
Now why is it again that church and state aren't seperated. I thought that was how Utah got to become a state is if the laws were not run by the church. It sounds to me like Brigham Young is still alive.
Glen, you need to make sure Sam Granato at DABC reads this. This is another one of those, "Only in Utah" moments.
Your driver's license before it expired would have proved your age. Now that it is expired, you might have magically turned say, 19?
I can understand checking ID's for those who appear to be younger than 21, but good hell, neither you nor I have looked 21 for quite a few years. Isn't it time that we legalized being an adult in Utah? (Thanks, Barberi).
Glen, you carry a gun???? I am soooo disappointed.
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