Supreme Court will review Alaska's bid to seize pilot's plane over 6-pack of beer: "This case isn't just about me" - CBS News

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  What a fucking mess. Great way to shut off all air traffic to that island!

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It wouldn’t be just that island. A significant part of Alaska has a ban on alcohol.

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Oh man!! So this could threaten air travel for a huge region.

      Such bad news. America and the Byzantine bullshit rules about alcohol sales is bizarre.

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  What’s especially stupid about this to me is that I think the effort of keeping alcohol out of the dry community should be on that community rather than the pilot. Why should the pilot become the village’s law enforcement?

  If this were hard drugs that are already illegal at the federal level, fine; but that’s a totally different discussion.

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  • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Airplanes aren’t the only way to transport illegal goods. Is my Uber driver supposed to frisk me to check if I’m smuggling coke around town? They gonna shut down Amtrak if I try to bring a joint across state lines?

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• wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Heard a podcast about this one. Didn’t he consciously “look the other way” and was caught allowing beer on his plane before?

  Not that I agree with stealing the guy’s plane, but let’s let all of the facts speak for themselves.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    That’s why the Supreme Court case is about excessive fines and not the legality of the stop.

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• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    the the the

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      lmao whoops tytyty

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  • slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I fixed it, never realized! Best community to err in!

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Im glad you found it as amusing/mildly infuriating as i did haha

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-alaska-seize-pilot-plane-6-pack-beer/

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  • slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Hey, thanks!
    I had 0 idea that the link wasn’t in the post. I’ve edited… cheers

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