It's 18 in Quebec where I was born and my parents were okay with me drinking way before that anyway. Thibault , Mar 8, You must log in or sign up to reply here. Show Ignored Content. Share This Page Tweet. Your name or email address: Do you already have an account? No, create an account now. Besides being a major health concern, consuming 21 shots in a bar setting is illegal. According to Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board policy, bartenders are required to stop serving alcohol to patrons once they become visibly intoxicated.
A myth about when a person can enter a bar surrounds the 21st birthday event. It even had Driscoll stumped -people would demand entrance to Finnegans two or three hours before their 21st. The myth has been debunked, and unfortunately for early 21st celebrators, the festivities cannot begin until the clock strikes midnight.
And they told me midnight is midnight is midnight. So according to state law, a person whose birthday is on March 13 can legally enter a bar and consume alcohol at midnight that morning, but cannot do so up to p.
Being 21 means the drinks are on you. I mean, why not? Make sure she approves before you just send her a drink. This is a safer option if all of your friends are under Airplane, helicopter, gyroplane, either way, you can be like Tom Cruise. At the right place, you might be able to drink legally, walk 20 meters to a bar in another state where the time is snow hour later, and drinking alcohol might be illegal for you.
Avalon Avalon 39 1 1 bronze badge. I still don't understand the logic. If you were born at, let's say, am on on January 1, , then the instant at which you have been alive 21 years is am on January 1, ignoring leap years and time zones. At no time on December 31, , have you been alive for 21 years. US Senator en. He was not allowed to sit in the Senate until his 30th birthday, in June NateEldredge when the common law rule was developed, it was neither customary not possible to measure time that precisely.
I agree however that it is illogical. Still, logical or not, it is the way of calculating age that prevails in many jurisdictions. NateEldredge the law takes the view that " a day begun is a day done ". If you have been alive at any moment of the day then as far as the law is concerned you have been alive for the entire day as the law operates in units of one day. This includes two days on which you weren't alive for the entire day: January 1, because you were born partway through the day and December 31, because the day is not yet finished - but they are counted anyway.
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