Mt. Airy, PA Casino Fined

From: the Allentown Morning Call:
"The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board Wednesday fined Mount Airy $25,000 for an Oct. 7 incident in which three bartenders served 27 drinks in nine hours to a man who was playing a table top slot machine in its Glass Bar, including 18 drinks after the man was visibly drunk. The man, whom the casino did not identify, ended up falling off his bar stool and resisting arrest by state police.
Count me naive, but I don't understand how anyone who had 27 drinks wasn't in the emergency room," said Board Chairman David Barash. "I don't understand how he wasn't in a coma. What in the world were bartenders No. 2 and No. 3 thinking?"

They were all rum-and-Cokes supposedly including 1.25 ounces of rum in each.

Ahh, memories. The Morning Call was young DonDiego hometown newspaper.

27 drinks in Nine hours is three an hour. I've had more than three in an hour, and three bartenders sound like they switched out. Is there a system in place for the third barkeep to know what a guy consumed before he got there? I don't think bartenders one or two did anything wrong.

Piece of cake. What is this Rum and Coke? I'd be tired of the Coke after the first drink.

Now a real rum drink is the Zombie.


1/2 ounce rum -- white rum
1 1/2 ounces rum -- golden rum
1 ounce rum -- dark rum
1/2 ounce rum -- 151-proof rum
1 ounce lime juice
1 teaspoon pineapple juice
1 teaspoon papaya juice
1 teaspoon superfine sugar

In my younger days I went to my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and had these all day. I had a person trying to keep up with me and he ended up in the bathroom and then sleeping in the car. It didn't affect me at all.

It's not the number of drinks per se, it's that they served a visibly intoxicated person.

I've drank through the alphabet in a day.

I agree with Bill. 27 in 9 hours I would be drunk but not falling off my stool and fighting with police

27 rum and cokes in 9 hours and I would have been in a corner asleep for a few dozen hours with a wonderful headache.

although I did know some folks that could drink like that all day and night long and barely get a buzz.

One of the joys of not drinking anymore...

Quitter.
In my hay days, I was good for a twelve pack in a few hours. These days, I tend to get buzzed by my second. Lack of practice....

It takes the body (on average) a little less than an hour to metabolize 1 serving of alcohol. So he likely had in the neighborhood of 18 shots floating around inside him when he fell off his chair.

I saw a drunk chick fall off her chair at Casino Royals in Vegas. I don't believe law enforcement got involved. Everyone just laughed

Sadly in many casinos these days, you're only getting 0.75 ounces of liquor in your drink