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Saw a sign in all the windows this morning in the Starkville Mugshots that their liquor license is suspended. Anybody know what happened? Not sure how long it's been that way.

Serving alchohol to minors, I dont know that officially buy I had heard it was coming.

The kid that hit the fence by the Veranda and died had been drinking there and was underage. That's what I heard anyway

I know for a fact they were serving to any and everyone, 21 or not.

That's gonna hit em where it hurts. Anyone know how long the suspension is?

How long might be the least of their worries, if true. Some of my clients have cameras in their bar solely for the purpose to have proof that they didn't over serve anyone or to minors.

So I talked to a Mugshots employee today, and apparently the suspension isn't that long. I don't remember exactly, but I think it was on the order of weeks, not months.

He said it is a direct result of the kid who died over by the Veranda, BUT that 3 other restaurants had their liquor license suspended because this kid had been to Mugshots, State Theater, and the Veranda. He had on Mugshots and State Theater wrist bands and was leaving the Veranda when he had the wreck. If he was able to drink at all those places in a single night, either it's time for some crack-down in Starkville OR he had a fake ID. This is ALL speculation on my part.

It's a college town, him drinking at these locations is not the problem I see so much as he took it upon himself to drive after he had been drinking and wrecked. I don't know anything about the wreck or nothing, but kids are going to drink in college, period. I drank when I was at State.
I drank before I was 21 as did most of you I am sure, but as I said the problem here is the fact that he drove after drinking and it cost him his life. I agree they need to be repremanded and have their license revoked for a while, but the real blame lies with the kid. Folks need to take more responsibility for their actions.

420 racin wrote:It's a college town, him drinking at these locations is not the problem I see so much as he took it upon himself to drive after he had been drinking and wrecked. I don't know anything about the wreck or nothing, but kids are going to drink in college, period. I drank when I was at State.
I drank before I was 21 as did most of you I am sure, but as I said the problem here is the fact that he drove after drinking and it cost him his life. I agree they need to be repremanded and have their license revoked for a while, but the real blame lies with the kid. Folks need to take more responsibility for their actions.

With you on that. If somebody under 21 wants to drink they will? If he gets a wristband from somebody that actually is 21 then how is it the bars fault? And also 99.9% of the time it is a security service that checks id and gives a wristband not the bar. You can just slap on a wristband from the last week and never get checked and you can't expect security to remember every person they checked in with drunk idiots bar hopping. Definatley not the bars fault but the guy who doesn't get a dd.

Love their hamburgers.

When did this kid have the wreck? This past weekend?

No has been a couple months ago

Mugshots usually has one of their own employees checking the ids, i know after the wreck happened just to get in there you had to show two forms of id just to get in. ABC shows up pretty frequently around Starkville so its not like there letting everybody drink. Hell i got pulled over by ABC one night after leaving a liquor store they were staking out. I showed them my id and they didnt believe it was me, had one of there back up guys come in and went all through my wallet looking through my wallet trying to find my " fake Id ". I wasnt all that happy considering im 22.

Even if a bar has an outside company checking id, it is still the bars fault if they mess up since they are employed by the bar.

ACEINTHEHOLE wrote:Even if a bar has an outside company checking id, it is still the bars fault if they mess up since they are employed by the bar.

This is true since the bar would employ, either directly or contract/indirecly the person(s) check identification at the door.

I do not think it is the bars responsibilty to be a babysitter. If anyone wants to go out and have one or 10 drinks, that is their business. Now, I am not saying it is right for anyone to drive afterwards, but if we are going to patrol how many drinks one can have, are we going to allow liquor stores to only sell those mini shots? Or when you go to the grocery store or gas station, or wherever it is you purchase beer, to only sell single beers? And to purchase your single beer, or mini shot, you have to show a drivers license that is swiped to see if you have been somewhere else and purchased a single beer within the past hour?