recently, has introduced a spanner to the works. What if you sell gasoline and allow an impaired person to purchase said fuel before hitting the road? In Tennessee, a place notorious for sticky drinking laws , it’s already the law. This New Mexico ruling heads that state in the same direction.
If this were 1950 and you pulled up to a gas pump, one attendant would ask if you wanted a fill-up, another would start cleaning your windshield, another might be checking the pressure in your tires and you’d go in to pay a cashier who might be chatting with a stock boy. Welcome to 2021: you probably pay at the pump and leave, never seeing anyone who works there.
In New Mexico and Tennessee, this lone person can now be held responsible for the behaviour of someone who is high and/or drunk.
They’ve taken steps to address this. In one county, hard liquor is banned from being sold at gas stations. As of July 1st of this year, they’ve banned the sale of “minis” — those little bottles of booze you find on airplanes or in a hotel minibar. You can still get them in those places, but you can no longer buy them at the retail level. They apparently also created a huge litter problem; people toss ‘em back and chuck ‘em out the car window. Nice.
There is no question that impaired driving is a scourge on our roads. But New Mexico may be following Tennessee out on a legal limb that is putting the onus on the wrong people. The idea that a clerk in a gas station is responsible for possibly enraging someone drunk or drugged, often with no backup, is a bridge too far.
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