Stop the Presses!
Lawmakers in Massachusetts are actually considering treating their adult subjects like...adults? I'm stunned. No, really, I am.
Mass. may allow diners to take wine home
I'm not sure Councilor "Let's tax people for the privilege of driving into Boston" Scapicchio would recognize a "radical idea" if it walked up and bit him square in the nuts, but it's refreshing to see him displaying a bit of common sense here. Of course, I suspect the fact that his constituency includes the owners of numerous Italian restaurants in the North End may have been somewhat influential in sculpting his position on this issue.
Uh-oh, I can see it now. They're going to take an otherwise perfectly good idea and Massacrucify it. You wait and see.
Opened bottles of wine must be transported in the trunk of the vehicle or the rearward-most portion of the passenger compartment, in a locked case, or with a state-approved cork locking device installed. All corkscrews and glasses must be securely stored in a separate locked container.
Only "some"? I guess I'm not terribly surprised by that. Any argument against this bill would have to be based on the assumption that people are, by default, too irresponsible to be held accountable for their actions, no matter who they are or how law-abiding a life they lead. Sound familiar? Given that, I'd say passage of this bill is anything but a sure thing.
Now compare that to the mentality of the people up in Madison, New Hampshire, where public drinking has been recently made legal. I ran out of fingers and toes quite some time ago counting up the reasons to pull up the tent stakes and head north.
N.H. town is drinking in peace
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Mass. may allow diners to take wine home
BOSTON --Diners who can't finish that bottle of wine at dinner might not have a problem anymore. A bill sponsored by Sen. Richard T. Moore would allow people to take home leftover wine from restaurants, The Boston Globe reports.
At least 30 states, including New York, Connecticut and Vermont, allow diners to take home wine that is left in the bottle. But Massachusetts law limits the sale of wine in restaurants and hotels to dining areas.
"It's not a radical idea" to let people take leftover wine home, City Councilor Paul J. Scapicchio told The Globe.
I'm not sure Councilor "Let's tax people for the privilege of driving into Boston" Scapicchio would recognize a "radical idea" if it walked up and bit him square in the nuts, but it's refreshing to see him displaying a bit of common sense here. Of course, I suspect the fact that his constituency includes the owners of numerous Italian restaurants in the North End may have been somewhat influential in sculpting his position on this issue.
The bill would require the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission write rules on how restaurants could send opened bottles of wine home with diners.
Uh-oh, I can see it now. They're going to take an otherwise perfectly good idea and Massacrucify it. You wait and see.
Opened bottles of wine must be transported in the trunk of the vehicle or the rearward-most portion of the passenger compartment, in a locked case, or with a state-approved cork locking device installed. All corkscrews and glasses must be securely stored in a separate locked container.
Some diners said the idea makes sense.
Only "some"? I guess I'm not terribly surprised by that. Any argument against this bill would have to be based on the assumption that people are, by default, too irresponsible to be held accountable for their actions, no matter who they are or how law-abiding a life they lead. Sound familiar? Given that, I'd say passage of this bill is anything but a sure thing.
Now compare that to the mentality of the people up in Madison, New Hampshire, where public drinking has been recently made legal. I ran out of fingers and toes quite some time ago counting up the reasons to pull up the tent stakes and head north.
N.H. town is drinking in peace
MADISON, N.H. -- When a police car inched up the dirt road next to the town softball field, the people gathered there on a recent Friday night -- some with beer cans in hand -- barely looked up. None of them moved. There was no need to hide the cooler or toss the open cans.
It is far from Madison to the French Quarter, but public drinking is legal in this picturesque White Mountains hamlet. And that is exactly how residents here like it.
"People should be able to have a drink and socialize, and the assumption should not be that they are irresponsible," said Jane Lyman, who had gathered on the softball field at dusk with her husband, Chuck, and a half-dozen other organizers of the town's "Old Home Week" celebration.
Welcome to New Hampshire: The Anti-Massachusetts
