YouTuber Finds A Loophole To Serve Drinks (Legally) Without A $13,000+ Liquor License: Put Your Bar On A Hovercraft

Kmarko10/29/2020 3:21 PM

The Licensing Act of 2003, Section 173: as long as you are on a journey, you do not need a liquor license to sell alcohol.

An airplane, for example. Delta doesn't need a liquor license to charge you $11 for 1 ounce of well scotch. Trains are another example. No license necessary to sell you a "double" (two nips of Woodford or Jack) on the Amtrak ride home for Thanksgiving. Planes or trains or automobiles....

That's right. Or a hovercraft. It may not be listed specifically, but hey, the Constitution didn't specify what "arms" they meant either. That's up for the lawyers and judges to rule on, but for now, a slowly moving hovercraft 100% qualifies for a vehicle on a journey, which means no need for a $2-$14,000 liquor license from the state.

A fact that British YouTuber Tom Scott noticed and brought to the attention of his 3.2 million subscribers and me. As he also points out, there's no specific mention about the customer needing to be on the "journey" too, making his setup here completely legal.

To prove it, he created his very own hovercraft bar: "The Hover Inn".

Does it actually work? Yes. That's a real beer pump with real beer being pumped into it. There's a working contactless card reader connected to his bank account. Hard liquor. And there's a variety of cocktails, including an extra dirty Hovertini.

As you already know as a proud owner of the Barstool Book of Drinks, "dirty" usually means olive juice obviously. In this case, it means literal dirt and grass and shit that flies into the moving hovercraft. Mmmmm.

There were some other drawbacks, little things like a lot of spillage, foamy beers, the fact there are some Trade Laws or something that might make the legality questionable etc etc blah blah blah. All I can think about is this closing remark: