There’s been a lot of talk around here lately about manslaughter with regards to people accidentally hitting people with their cars. Now we have a case of a bar owners who will be serving almost four years in jail because a patron in his bar was served a drink called the “Stoplight Challenge” that caused her to die from alcohol poisoning. I’ve had a Stoplight before, it’s three shooters in a row. I don’t know what’s so different about this one but damn! I suspect these were not the only drinks she had that night. If we start sending bar owners to prison for shit like this, they’re going to have to start buying liability insurance like doctors do.Link
Keywords: Juanita Goodpasture, Billy Scott, Stoplight Challenge, involuntary manslaughter, alcohol poisoning
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i don’t recollect how much binge drinking i did or witnessed in college, but i remember that i did it because i wanted to, and the people i witnessed doing it did it because they wanted to. it wasn’t the pub owners that were to blame; how about the guy who sold me the fake i.d.? unless this one drink, in and of itself, killed this person, than he is not to blame. if she drank a bunch of other shit that night, she’s to blame. sorry, you had to much to drink, and now your dead. can’t blame the barkeep.
i’ll say it again: legalize weed, outlaw alcohol.
Amen brother!
I see Kansas starting the dual wave of creationism and temperance across the country…
Fuck Kansas. Fuck the people that put this guy in jail. Fuck Temperence. Fuck Creationism.
wow this is intense
fuck your mama, “criminal records”…. and that’s all i gotta say ’bout that….
mahfuckah…..
The bartender wasn’t prosecuted for serving that drink. The question was if the drink was a contest were if you finish it and remain standing and talking not throwing up for half an hour you will win a t shirt and the drink which is $15. Drinking games in taverns are illegal there and most everywhere up. That is what was determined in this case. Also her BAC was over 5 times the limit! Her family members shouldn’t have premitted her to drink so much.
Justtoyetyouknow-
Unfortunately, prosecutors have to find the best way to get a conviction. There were witnesses at the bar that night that claim that there was no drinking game. Several witnesses also verify that Juanita was drinking heavily from the time she walked into the bar. The Stoplight Challenge by itself, which consists of no more than 6 oz. of alcohol, was not responsible for her death…an entire night of binge drinking was.
Maybe the bartender should have been charged with sponsoring an illegal drinking game…but that is not what killed this woman.
It’s also interesting to note that Juanita was in the bar the entire night with her mother and sister. They watched her consume drink after drink and did nothing. Why wasn’t Juanita’s mother, who drove her to and from the bar charged with anything? If you’re going to base punishments on small portions of an incident, couldn’t you also charge her mother with aiding and abbeting?