Tribe suing beer companies for alcohol problems

[JBond]

Drunk Indians suing beer companies for alcoholism is like me suing Hustler for carpal tunnel syndrome.

An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota said it is demanding $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation, which encompasses some of the nation's most impoverished counties.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court of Nebraska also targets four beer stores in Whiteclay, a Nebraska town near the reservation's border that, despite having only about a dozen residents, sold nearly 5 million cans of beer in 2010.

Tribal leaders and activists blame the Whiteclay businesses for chronic alcohol abuse and bootlegging on the Pine Ridge reservation, where all alcohol is banned. They say most of the stores' customers come from the reservation, which spans southwest South Dakota and dips into Nebraska.


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[Doomsday101]

Just open a casino and stop drinking.

 

[Afigueroa22]

Drunk Indians suing beer companies for alcoholism is like me suing Hustler for carpal tunnel syndrome.

I could file a suit for emotional distress against the Cowboys. I'd ask for a billion. I'd settle for season tickets though.

 

[rocboy22]

is this a class-action suit? how can I get in on it?

 

[Doomsday101]

Store owners are going to get the double whammy getting sued for selling beer to the Indians and then they will get sued for discrimination when they refuse to sell beer to the Indians.

I can understand not allowing beer to be sold on reservations but how is it illegal to sell beer to a person who leaves the reservation?

The kicker no one is being forced to live on the reservation, those who do will get Government payouts those who leave are like the rest of us who have to get up and go to work

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Drunk Indians suing beer companies for alcoholism is like me suing Hustler for carpal tunnel syndrome.

This post is open for so many jokes its not even funny...
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