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by This Woman » Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:57 pm
I’ve never received a photocopy ID, but given it seems to be a common plan, I will probably accept them. I think there is a valid reason to not carry your ID/Driver’s license out and about on the playa. I do have sympathy for them, which is pretty typical to my nature.
I will not break the law, as I will not knowingly furnish alcoholic beverage to any person under 21 years of age. So if LE wants to track me down because it’s easier than actually doing their job of finding bars that knowingly break the law, then they are corrupt. I will fight it, and I may lose, but I won’t be in the wrong.
Burning Man is not the real world. In the real world, children can be near alcohol that is given away. In the real world LE does not show up at parties checking IDs and fining underage drinkers unless they receive a noise or other complaint, and most times not even then. Except those laws regarding attire, Burning Man is held to a higher standard than in the real world.
The safest standard of care then, is that of a professional retail bar, which makes sense given their similarities. But there are all sorts of dissimilarities too. Like the fact that bars are also camps and many of those camps have children (mine did before they were grown) and there are people that cannot afford to lose their valid IDs. There are ID’s from other states and other countries – how does one assess their validity?
Professional bartenders here are very definitive in their advise to only accept valid ID and do not rely on the fact that it’s illegal to say you’re old enough to drink alcohol when you’re not. Please explain why you are so definitive that it is the law when all I have found on the subject is that I cannot knowingly furnish…nothing about how I came to the knowingly part.
Eric, you say you know what the ID rules are…where in the law can a layperson find the ID rules? I’m asking because most bars in BRC don’t have professional bartenders and yet are held to the same standard of care. If it is written law that my only course for verifying age is to check and verify the validity of their ID, then I should be able to find the laws like those I posted earlier…right? At any rate, if they exist, I’d like to find the pertinent laws and post them. To date, I have been unsuccessful in that effort.
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