Carding state Governors and state senior citizens.
Don’t flatter yourself Governor Gregoire. There is no way that this bouncer thought you looked under 21. He was simply being a ass and making an ass out of you. If you want to do something get the law changed. Control freaks and arrogant people are constantly making Senior Citizens present ID’s just because they can. This is age discrimination, it is a violation of our right to be old and not have to show proof of that to anyone. Anyone who cannot tell the deference between someone twenty and over forty should not have a job carding people and no person over the age of 40 should have to proved that they are over twenty-one to anyone.
Some Wal-Marts and markets do the same thing. The managers do not give the people they hire credit for an ounce of brains so they make them card old people using walkers. Senior citizens that are carded should simple refuse the whole purchase, demand to talk to the manager and let the store restock the entire cart. Then this stupid irrational behavior will soon stop. This bouncer receives my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award and the governor get honorary mention for not have having the state police remove the disrespectful bouncer. What next are you going to card the President? Insane!
OLYMPIA, Wash. - She has headlined parades, appeared on television and signed legislation.
But all that couldn’t get Governor Christine Gregoire into a downtown Olympia bar.
She is not alone. The Washington State Liquor Control Board says it gets complaints all the time from people who are clearly of age but who still get carded. Spokesperson Jennifer Skoda says the state law doesn’t spell out who should be carded. It just says where there may be a question of a person’s right to purchase liquor, the person shall be required to present ID.
“The burden is also with the licensee to ensure their patrons are over 21,” Skoda said.
Todd Ruzicka owns the bar. He says he has no idea why the part-time bouncer chose to card someone who’s almost three times his age.
Date posted: Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 9:06 am | Under category: Demented delusional or dumb club of the week award, control freaks, demented, dumb, irrational, looney
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This is the TSA and “zero-tolerance” mentality too.
I think the discarding of “judgment” in favor of the blind application of rules parallels both the general “dumbing-down” of people and the moral deterioration of most people in our nation.
Our kind of government requires people who use their intelligence and take responsibility for themselves. It it the ignorant and irresponsible that require a tyrant. If people are not restrained by the inner-voice of God, then they will need to be restrained by myriads of rules and regulations. Thus the “control-freaks” and the “idiot-masses” need each other. How sad for the rest of us.