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Originally Posted by adpiucf
Being in college doesn't exempt you from the law. People drink underage, yes, but having a bus that travels through town to and from the bars presents a liability for the university because the police are more likely to bust the kids on the bus, and as I mentioned earlier, there's a lawsuit waiting to happen the minute Frankie the Freshman binge drinks, hops on the bus and chokes to death on his own vomit. Mom and dad aren't going to sue Benny's Backwater Bar. They're going to go after the private university with its millions of dollars.
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There wouldn't be any liability on the university, even if someone died on the bus. The University didn't supply the alcohol, nor sell it, neither did the SGA. That would fall on the restaurant that sold it to them.
Otherwise, as I stated previously, ever cabbie that ever picked up a drunk that anything happened to would be held liable, and that doesn't even remotely make sense.
Now, on the issue of the University's reputation getting tarnished if a busload of kids were pulled over and underage drinkers were cited? That sounds more like the REAL reason that they stopped the service.
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