wine shipping bill is a steaming piece of legislative crap
Kansas’s weird liquor laws just got a little bit weirder.
Under the law as it is as of this writing, it is illegal to buy wine online (for example) and have it shipped to your residence. Now, you can go ahead and order the wine, but you have to have it shipped to a liquor store and pay a fee to pick it up. This is a little bit like the current laws for shipping firearms.
It makes some sense for firearms, but for wine, it is stupid. A simpler solution would be to simply require the signature of an adult upon delivery, as is done with thousands of other packages daily. Unscrupulous delivery companies could be treated like restaurant owners and barkeeps who might maybe have had a minor cross the street within 100 feet of their establishment by having their places of businesses raided constantly by state authorities.
And in the “holy crap” department, State Sen. Karin Brownlee agrees with me.
06.15.2006 @ 10:57
So I guess I’ll have to keep shipping my wine to my friends in KCMO, and driving the 3 miles to pick it up. (I always leave one bottle with them as a gratuity).
This law is completely bogus.
06.15.2006 @ 19:50
To my mind, this falls under the rubric of “harmless contract between two consenting adults” which need not be interfered in. Just a small part of the reason owning a small or medium-sized business is a nightmare for the average person.