I quit drinkin years ago,but I still have a big scrapbook of pictures of a bunch of people passed out who thought they could drink me under the table.

You are always the best.

LOL.

Id believe that list

Was there ever a doubt in your mind? Lol

the drinking culture in WI has changed over the years.



The state went hard after drunk driving and that made a difference. The penalties were stiffened. At that time i knew a guy who had racked up 3 DWI's before the court date for the first one.

Had a buddy who always drove beater cars that were one step from the junkyard. Every month or so he'd be driving something different. Only time he wasn't driving a junker was when he was between junkers he'd drive his tow truck. The junkers life ended when he'd drive it into the ditch after driving home drunk. He'd hitch a ride home, bring the tow truck the next day and drag the beater home to part out. Had his own little junkyard behind the barn.

I worked at tool shop that allowed drinking beer during work hours. I remember working on a large drill press with a bottle of beer on the plate of steel I was drilling. Over time it was reduced to just the last hour then just after work A guy slicing up his hand had something to do with it.

Worked at a different toolshop. One of the owners kids was 18-19 and didn't have a drivers license. He drove around on riding lawn tractor. On the week ends his tractor could be seen outside one of the local bars with a trailer hitched to it with a chair in the trailer. The chair and trailer was for his girlfriend.

I go on for hours about the people I knew when younger and the tales of drunken escapades. It was much more prevalent years ago then it is now.

we are still one of the most lax states on DUI

and if you get one on a boat , Atv , Utv or snowmobile they are different than if you get it in a car


I have no issue with drinking but no patients for drunk driving

you can not endanger other people .

if it were up to me you would be restricted to 50cc vehicles aka a moped to get you to work after your 2nd DUI

why are we lax-ish, well it would have been really hard at one time to have a police force if your first DUI was a felony , a lot of cops had one and it is a miss demeanor in WI

we were 0.10 but in about 1999 it went to 0.08 to get federal highway money

sort of like the domestic , if you ever had a domestic call making it keep you from owning a gun , at the time they discussed that it would have cut the police force by around a 1/3rd

so you have to be convicted of it, that is really a due process issue also

there are a lot of grants out for targeted DUI enforcement and since covid a lot of that money has been sitting on the table with PDs struggling to keep enough officers just to maintain patrols

bored cops are hard on Drunks , Over worked cops write the reports and move on when the drunks crash into someone.

Small world, Raised the kids just outside of Klondike.

The beer and tavern lobbies in WI are very powerful and have been for over a century. Yes the drunk driving laws have become more strict but are more lax than many states. When and where alcohol can be purchased or served is very wide open. It is in the culture, we probably would not have near the quality of volunteer rural fire departments etc. if beer was not available for the picnics. Lots of charitable causes funded by beer, so changing those norms is not easy.
If all the 'binge" drinkers in WI were classified as alcoholics there would be several hundred thousand more.

Bryce

Good wisecrack. 2 points

it's a t-shirt they sell here

https://www.drinkwisconsinbly.com/?...2vVCod4y-ItAx4D5LlFs_gi4nOhoCNrQQAvD_BwE

Wisconsin regulates alcohol on a local level that is one of only 3 states in the country

Hawaii , Indiana and Wisconsin
Hawaii , regulates by the county so each island is it's own county
Indiana does the same by county

Wisconsin is unique in that every municipality regulate their own , every , city ,village and township we have 7 classes of liquor license

class A what is called beer and wine only for off premise consumption (gas station or grocery beer & wine)
class "A" full off premise consumption license beer , wine , liquor (grocery store or liquor store with all)
class "A" cider only
class B beer and fermented malt beverages for on site consumption
class "B" a full bar
Temp class B festival , ball game , charity ride , VFW events , fairs
class C wine only served with meal , reseal option on bottle

all licenses renew July 1

that is all the rest of the state , then Milwaukee is its own licensing entity and handles if different than that
I don't handle any licensing in MKE so I don't know that it is anything other than different than the rest of the state

the up side to this is every single village board town council and city council gets to decide the terms of issuance
if there is a big issue with bar fights like there used to be here , we sat all the license holders down together and said , enough , are you going to resolve this or are we going to staggered closing times and cut bar fights outside the bars to almost nothing.
5 bars with doors less than 100 yards from each other made and interesting 0200 back several years

That's some nice stuff on that website , GREENCOUNTYPETE. Cool slogan.

I gotta laugh , my state (CT) years ago had a drinking age of 18. As soon as I turned 18 I was legal. Shortly thereafter they started to bump it up. I kept legal every time they bumped it with the exception of when it went to 21. However , the law went into effect July 1st. So on June 30th at 20 years old I was legal. July 1st I was not. July 2nd was my 21st birthday and I was legal again.

So on July 1st of that year I got one more chance to drink underage and I did.....lol

I had a guy I worked with at the time who was just slightly younger than me and got screwed every time the age bumped up. He was seriously ticked off. I don't blame him. He had to wait all the way to age 21.

when something that was legal yesterday isn't for the same person today but will be for then again next week the law is broke and all respect for it is lost

that happened for my uncle , was 18 then jumped to 21 , he was still 20 but my aunt his tiny little Very pregnant at the time wife was 21 and legal to buy beer , she would push a whole cart out of the liquor store in Kenosha to the parking lot where he and his friends from the AMC motors plant were waiting.

also besides your parent being able to buy you a drink while you are under age , if your married and your spouse is 21 they can also buy you a drink welcome to Wisconsin and interesting drinking culture.

when we were on my son's graduation from high school trip we saw a 2 dollar old fashion happy hour at a restaurant in Onalaska and stopped in , each ordered an old fashion , the waiter asked for his ID , I said he is 17 but I am his father , he said ok , I need to see both your ID's , he checked them and said ok you really are his father I will be back with your old fashions in a minute , he was not from WI but understood the law and was cool with it. he just wanted to make sure he checked.

my son used to work at a supper club for the mainly Friday night fish fries from 15-17 he makes very good old fashion himself , his job was in the kitchen , he made the drinks at home.

you can because it is a legit occupation be an alcohol server at 18 but can't legally drink it till 21 in WI
you can't keep a person from working in WI as long as they are 18.

even a cop in WI can be 18 , but the department has to buy his or her gun.

I think the only Job you can't hold in WI at 18 is US congressman or senator.

Green Bay #1! Doesn't surprise me at all.

Thanks Bud.

I suppose that you would have to define what qualifies as a city.
Hurley and New Diggings aren't on the list.
Most anyone in Wisconsin has heard of Hurley.
Dad was born in New Diggings and he always said that if you could see over the bar in New Diggings, they would serve you and if you couldn't, they would give you something to stand on.

Been to Hurley a few times.

It took me over a day to catch on to what you are saying. Well done, Left lane! Surprised California didn't make the list.