Knoxville Police Chief: You Can't Sell Wine In Grocery Stores Because Students Will Drink It Out Of Their Butts
Betsy Phillips blogs at The Nashville Scene that Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch, along with other law enforcement officials morons is opposed to the sale of wine in grocery stores because, well, there's this example of UT frat party where a student nearly died from ingesting box wine through his rectum ("butt chugging").
A quote from the Chief: "I was asked, 'well they got it from a liquor store?' Well yeah, but if you're going to make it even more accessible, that incident is not going to be isolated."
Betsy writes:
This is hilarious. Apparently we're supposed to believe that there's some huge amount of young people in Tennessee who would love to butt-chug but, for some reason, they can't go into a liquor store, so they are refraining from butt-chugging until they can shop at Kroger? Like there's a bunch of college students who are all, "Oh, I was going to butt-chug, but if I can't use my Kroger card, forget it"? I mean, how does Chief Rausch even say this with a straight face?
via @radleybalko
But, butt...
Roger at January 22, 2013 3:54 AM
While only a few police departments actually have written requirements capping IQ of cops (e.g. New Haven, CT http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95836 ), it's pretty clear that almost all departments enforce such standards by informal means.
The result is that police departments are made up of the mediocre and exciteable...and the most excitable and publicity hungry of the mediocrities end up running the show.
TJIC at January 22, 2013 4:58 AM
It merely shows that authority will be abused. I don't feel the impulse to run your life, but I see it everywhere.
MarkD at January 22, 2013 5:12 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/01/knoxville-polic.html#comment-3574584">comment from TJICThe captain in my area had trouble understanding this prohibition against noise by commercial businesses bordering on residential areas: "There is to be no amplified sound within 500 feet of residences at any time."
Reads like Chaucer, huh?
The officer who still couldn't find my stolen pink car after I gave him the thief's name and phone number (which I dug up through detective work) and he looked up the address in the department's reverse directory) (see I See Rude People) is now a Sergeant and sometimes the watch commander (officer in charge of the precinct for a shift).
Also, officers in LA are blocked from Facebook and YouTube on department servers -- which means they can't do detective work on either. There have been a number of times I looked up stuff and took screen shots for a sergeant friend of mine.
Amy Alkon
at January 22, 2013 5:14 AM
What does this say about the quality of box wine?
Cousin Dave at January 22, 2013 6:27 AM
Friends don’t let friends butt chug supermarket purchased wine.
Roger at January 22, 2013 6:38 AM
I'm OK with any excuse to type "butt-chug."
MonicaP at January 22, 2013 7:46 AM
It's funny how we have access to the collective art and knowledge of the world at our fingertips, and we read about butt-chugging. A couple weeks ago it was vodka tampons and college kids firing bottle rockets out their sphincters.
Eric at January 22, 2013 8:24 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/01/knoxville-polic.html#comment-3574839">comment from MonicaPTyping "will drink it out of their butts" gave me a little zing of joy.
Amy Alkon
at January 22, 2013 8:40 AM
I comes for the conversation, I stays for the butt-chugging.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fFqc1Yt_c4
Eric at January 22, 2013 9:20 AM
Butt chugging, vodka tampons, combine the two and you've got ... box wine.
smurfy at January 22, 2013 4:02 PM
The Vodka Tampon is false.
I would like to see how many cases of alcohol enemas have been documented; especially in public.
I just have this thing about people trying to blow sunshine up my ass. I doubt I'd let anyone blow alcohol up my ass. Especially as I enjoy the taste on the way down.
Jim P. at January 22, 2013 8:22 PM
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