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  • I used to work in a pub when I was eighteen, and a copper used to come in regularly, get pissed and drive home. One night he came in with his son, who was in the year below me, and ordered two pints. I refused to serve his son, he asked to speak to the landlord, who, once I told him the background, stood his ground and said he couldn't knowingly serve someone under age. The following Friday, the police set up a road block on the road out of the village and breathalysed everyone as they drove home, charging everyone who was over the limit, many of whom were drinking buddies of the policeman.

    He was shot dead at Hungerford a few months later.

  • Bleak. Maybe faulty memory, but I thought until the mid-nineties it was legal to buy alcoholic drinks for kids (over 16) if you were responsible for them?

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