In Defense of Drinking on the Job

Seattle bands would like to have a beer or two while they perform. The state's booze bureaucrats say otherwise:

In the middle of the Tripwires' performance at the Sunset Tavern last October, guitarist Jim Sangster noticed his cocktail had gone missing. "I had a Makers Mark and a beer on a road case beside the stage; I turned around and they were gone." Sangster's drink had been confiscated by a representative of the Washington State Liquor Control Board. Sangster was in technical violation of a provisional rule, WAC 314-11-015, that forbids drinking by "any person performing services on a licensed premises for the benefit of the licensee."

Read the whole sad, dry tale.

Via Jacob Grier.