[HN Gopher] Only VIPs will be allowed to drink alcohol inside Pa...
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Only VIPs will be allowed to drink alcohol inside Paris 2024
Olympics venues
Author : rntn
Score : 41 points
Date : 2023-06-27 18:42 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.france24.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.france24.com)
| kalupa wrote:
| guess everyone else will just get trashed before they go in, or,
| more likely do their best effort to sneak in bottles of wine
| burnished wrote:
| Honestly even if the goal was to deter problematic levels of
| public drunkenness then that would work just fine. You probably
| won't be let in if you show up belligerent, and the combined
| pressures on volume and evidence usually means that people
| sneaking in drink don't become problematic.
| burnished wrote:
| Looks like it is against french law to serve alcohol in stadiums
| - the article doesn't say outright, but they mention that
| catering can offer alcohol as part of their duties so it appears
| the reason VIPs can drink is due to being at a catered event.
|
| Yeah, that is a bit shit, but the problem appears to be that the
| law carves a loophole out that only the wealthy execute on. I
| don't know though, I live far away and I have only heard about
| sports hooliganism, maybe it just genuinely makes sense. I'm
| having a hard time imagining a catered event getting overly rowdy
| engineer_22 wrote:
| > Under Evin's Law, which has been in place since 1991, alcohol
| is banned from sale to the general public inside stadiums in
| France, and Games organisers had not sought an exemption, a Paris
| 2024 spokesperson told Reuters.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_%C3%89vin
|
| Edit: in USA we usually name a law against someone who died, but
| in this case it's named after the man who proposed it.
| SllX wrote:
| We do the same. The "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002" is
| more commonly known as "McCain-Feingold".
| tesseract wrote:
| In "The X Act" X is usually a politician who sponsored it,
| but in "X's Law" X is very often a crime or accident victim
| being honored/memorialized.
| onetokeoverthe wrote:
| [dead]
| boeingUH60 wrote:
| Well, the unwashed masses cannot handle themselves after several
| shots.../s
| EA-3167 wrote:
| Yes, but without the /s, as decades of hooliganism, riots and
| racist bs have shown again and again.
| boeingUH60 wrote:
| I actually agree, lol
| trgdr wrote:
| This doesn't really bother me. My experience at football games
| tells me that, regardless of socioeconomic stature, no one
| really handles themselves well at sporting events after a few
| shots.
|
| It's not too hard to keep a small number of people from causing
| chaos, but security presence costs money. Seems logical that
| VIPs would spend enough to make the security presence net
| profitable.
|
| In a perfect world, we could either trust everyone to behave or
| we could afford to put security everywhere to enforce it, but
| we don't live in a perfect world.
| binaryblitz wrote:
| This is kinda my thought too.
|
| You can also look at it as a "perk" of the more expensive
| ticket. First class passengers on an airplane are the only
| ones that get a full meal on most domestic air travel. How is
| this different?
| filoleg wrote:
| > First class passengers on an airplane are the only ones
| that get a full meal on most domestic air travel. How is
| this different?
|
| Why go to meal comparisons instead of something more
| directly relevant? First class passengers get unlimited
| free alcohol (same with Comfort+ and above on Delta and
| many other airlines too), and economy class has to pay per-
| drink.
|
| Part of the reason I feel like a meal analogy is not good
| is because it varies heavily per airline and per flight
| distance.
| wolpoli wrote:
| > an exemption isn't really possible in the Olympics case
| (because there are so many events) without a change in the law
|
| What confuses me is why the organizers couldn't seek a change in
| the law. The Olympics is a big enough deal that they could seek
| an exemption. When we hosted the Olympics, I remember they had
| special laws written specifically for the games.
| hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
| Fuck these BS click-bait titles that are really just designed to
| enrage.
|
| The article explains it, that stadiums are prohibited from
| serving alcohol by French law, and an exemption isn't really
| possible in the Olympics case (because there are so many events)
| without a change in the law.
|
| Drinking at catered events or indoors isn't covered by the
| stadium law, so drinking is allowed there.
| PeterStuer wrote:
| Are the VIP boxes in the stadia 'catered events'?
| reaperman wrote:
| European aristocrats won't let technicalities curtail their
| entertainment. If needed, the laws/regulations will be
| changed, but there's no way there's going to be any
| enforcement of discrepancies anyways.
|
| What's somewhat more surprising is that they're not calling
| the whole of the olympics "catered" to earn a bit more
| revenue from alcohol sales. However, this should push
| visitors towards local establishments, which might be great
| for the lower rungs of the economy vs. giving that business
| to whoever wins a unified contract for the Olympics.
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