No excuses second time

The Herald reports:

A cowboy-inspired bar in Wellington has been caught selling alcohol to a 16-year-old twice in one year. 

Now, Dakota Bar could be riding the mechanical bull to an alcohol licensing ban as it has a 100% fail rate for serving those underage in police operations. …

They served alcohol underage in Sep 24 and Oct 25. It is highly highly highly unlikely that this was the only times. Let’s say they serve 100 people a night so around 40,000 times a year. The chance this was the only time they didn’t check is 1 in 40,000 x 1 in 40,000 or 1 in around 1.6 billion.

This is not rocket science. If they look under 30, you ask for ID. This doesn’t require weeks or training. It is a simple requirement.

Ubiaga said he’d welcome a system where every venue gets tested regularly by police, so no one felt singled out and the venues “genuinely cutting corners” would be caught out.

“I just wish they’d work with us more. To be a fair test they need to test every venue at least once every two years, not just a handful of venues.”

I don’t understand why it is not more regular. It would take one police officer and one teenager a few hours to do say all of Courtney place. They could do it monthly.

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