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If driving under the influence is illegal, why do bars have parking lots?
Let’s try to answer this one without the designated driver approach.
Or… To service the non-drinkers.
This is a bar that ONLY serves drinks.
This questions getting some answers, but let’s see if we can go a bit deeper into our reasoning ; )
Hopefully for the designated drivers.
-Have one drink, wait an hour or two and you wont be under the influence, bars are a great place to get together, dance and have fun w/o getting drunk
-Employee’s need to park somewhere
-If you are being picked up, your ride needs somewhere to park
For the people who dont get drunk and dont want to walk home.
sadly, because the bar’s main concern is not the welfare of their customers, but the daily profit they will be receiving. More people will come to their bar if there is ample parking. It is no concern to the average business man what happens to someone after purchasing their alcoholic beverages.
for the employees of the bar and all the wives who will be patiently waiting in the car for their hubbys to have a few, watch the game, tip the dancers, etc…
Bars do not care about whether or not is illegal for their customers to drive home. Bars care about making money by selling their alcohol, and whether or not it is legal to sell that alcohol. The bar owner doesn’t get arrested when someone gets caught driving drunk. The bar owner would lose a lot of money if the bar didn’t have a parking lot, though.
Beyond that, I think there’s an expectation by law makers (and perhaps bar owners) that drinkers will wait until the alcohol leaves their system.
Also, employees need to park.
Also, there’s the valid reasons that you mention (i.e. designated drivers and non-drinking customers).
A few ideas:
1) So people can leave their cars there.
2) In recognition of the fact that not all people drive to a bar to a bar with the intent of drinking so much as to put them ‘under the influence’.
3) So that people can, while under the influence, sleep, make out, recover or whatever in the relative privacy of their own car.
Because the bars made previous to the drinking laws had parking lots and nobody has thought to change the design…
Plus without parking lots, people would have to walk and the local police would only be able to charge them with Public Intoxication which does not carry a high enough fine to pay for the police department… The drunk drivers are needed to help pay for the new cars and equipment provided to the law enforcement agencies… Otherwise they would have to raise our taxes to pay for them…
I know the precise reason for all of this. Let me explain. Thanks. Ok bars want you to visit to so they have parking
spaces. Then, using time machines rented from Wal-Mart,
they whisk (ey) you to the third level of Dante’s Inferno
when you’re drunk, thus avoiding liability should you try to leave the bar to early. I actually thought a lot about this in the parking lot.
Because drivers are supposed to drive there, parked their vehicles for a drink, but not necessary they must move their parked vehicles after drink.
It is all about the profits, profits, profits. BIG money in alcohol sales. Look how long it took for the tobacco industries to lose huge billboard signs and TV adds due to a major law suit. Perhaps bars will have a two drink limit in the future instead of a two drink minimum. That always stumped me. I heard a frightening statistic that in the US some one dies every fifteen minutes from alcohol related incident. Two drink minimum? Give me a break!