Flag of the USAA worrying news story about Alabama caught my attention. A missing woman reportedly left a bar in Alabama with two men who were strangers to her.
What could we do? One safety rule would be to make everybody drinking in a bar register their name and address with an ID. Register.
Sounds impossible? Too complicated? No, it isn't. It was done in West Virginia years ago.
Advantages. Any regular at a bar is known to the barman who had the customer's ID.
As a customer, you can carry your local bar's ID, or even a national chain, rather like a Starbucks card.
Drinking Clubs In West Virginia
When I lived in the USA, in West Virginia you could only drink in a so-called club. You got club membership instantly by showing your ID, getting a club card and paying a nominal one dollar.
This proved that you had been drinking. If you were stopped for driving whilst drunk if you had just bought a drinking club card it did not do you any favours.
Equally important, it gave the premises your identity. Want to know the stranger's name, or that they are of drinking age and not a minor, just ask to see their drinking club card.
Or ask the barman to confirm the customer's name.
The barman then knows the identity of the men, and women, instantly. They can inform police. Much faster to identify a suspect, go to locate and visit where the person lives and ask where they last saw their companion.
Note that the drinking ages and ages of consent vary from state to state.
It may be illegal to drive a minor passenger across a state line in order to have drinks or sex with them in another state. Now, what is there to see nowadays in Alabama? See my earlier post.
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