{"id":16179,"date":"2012-07-24T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16179"},"modified":"2012-07-24T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:00:11","slug":"lcbo-sells-booze-to-underaged-teen-in-a-burka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/lcbo-sells-booze-to-underaged-teen-in-a-burka\/","title":{"rendered":"LCBO sells booze to underaged teen in a burka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I foresee a rush of interest among teenage boys in temporarily <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/Canada\/2012\/07\/24\/20020511.html\" target=\"_blank\">cross-dressing as Muslim women<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three liquor stores in the Greater Toronto Area recently sold booze to a 14-year-old boy whose identity was hidden because he was wearing a full-length burka and face veil at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager, clad in an Islamic female&#8217;s traditional garb of a burka, headscarf and facial covering, shopped in three different LCBO stores north of Toronto last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In each location, the Grade 8 student paid cash for a bottle of sambuca liqueur. <\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The stunt was co-ordinated and video recorded by Sun News host David Menzies, who has made a career out of lambasting Canada&#8217;s politically correct institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Menzies said the unopened bottles &mdash; totalling just over $80 &mdash; were promptly taken from the teen at the day&#8217;s end but suggested the fact the boy was never asked to uncover his face or show photo identification at multiple store locations reveals a deeply ingrained reluctance on the part of Canadian institutions to challenge cultural practices, even when they conflict with broader societal goals such as preventing underage drinking. &#8220;The reason why you have to unveil is that is photo ID is absolutely useless if you don&#8217;t see the actual face of the person,&#8221; said Menzies, adding he came up with the idea after an acquaintance told him he had seen this happen at various LCBO locations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I foresee a rush of interest among teenage boys in temporarily cross-dressing as Muslim women: Three liquor stores in the Greater Toronto Area recently sold booze to a 14-year-old boy whose identity was hidden because he was wearing a full-length burka and face veil at the time. The teenager, clad in an Islamic female&#8217;s traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57,9],"tags":[104,47,395,504],"class_list":["post-16179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-law","tag-booze","tag-islam","tag-lcbo","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4cX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16180,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16179\/revisions\/16180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}