Beer Mug postponed
The Beer Mug was on last night's Planning Commission agenda but the bar's attorney requested the matter be postponed until July 14.
Shelly Scebbi addressed the commission as intended because she is not available on July 14 to speak. Scebbi talked about her 19-year-old son being served an excessive amount of alcohol at the Foothill Boulevard bar.
The Beer Mug, formerly called The Beer Hunter, stands to lose its conditional use permit, which would prohibit the sale of hard liquor. According to the Planning Department, the business has been providing DJ entertainment and dancing without the required permits. A number of public safety problems have also come up, according to the Sheriff's Department. Last October, a shooting outside the bar injured five people.
Scebbi called the bar "unethical" for serving her underage son so much alcohol last month. According to Scebbi, her son was found with a blood alcohol level of 0.45 percent, nearly six times the legal limit. The young man stayed at a local hospital for 24 hours and then released.
"I want to prevent another parent from seeing their child in an ICU ward," Scebbi said.
A lawyer representing The Beer Mug, Ryan Kroll, said the business does not sell to minors and referred to a decoy operation by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control that The Beer Mug passed in 2009.
"We do not sell to minors. We do not sell to people who are intoxicated," Kroll said. "We are a law-abiding restaurant."
The matter will return to the commission in three weeks.
Shelly Scebbi addressed the commission as intended because she is not available on July 14 to speak. Scebbi talked about her 19-year-old son being served an excessive amount of alcohol at the Foothill Boulevard bar.
The Beer Mug, formerly called The Beer Hunter, stands to lose its conditional use permit, which would prohibit the sale of hard liquor. According to the Planning Department, the business has been providing DJ entertainment and dancing without the required permits. A number of public safety problems have also come up, according to the Sheriff's Department. Last October, a shooting outside the bar injured five people.
Scebbi called the bar "unethical" for serving her underage son so much alcohol last month. According to Scebbi, her son was found with a blood alcohol level of 0.45 percent, nearly six times the legal limit. The young man stayed at a local hospital for 24 hours and then released.
"I want to prevent another parent from seeing their child in an ICU ward," Scebbi said.
A lawyer representing The Beer Mug, Ryan Kroll, said the business does not sell to minors and referred to a decoy operation by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control that The Beer Mug passed in 2009.
"We do not sell to minors. We do not sell to people who are intoxicated," Kroll said. "We are a law-abiding restaurant."
The matter will return to the commission in three weeks.
No doubt this 19 year old either had a very good fake ID or friends of age that were willing to buy for him. Sounds like this woman is misdirecting her anger. After all, if she had done a stellar job parenting then her uderage son wouldn't be trying to drink at all, right?
My friends and local police call the place "The Beer Thug"
RC you have a problem...Why is that the words of some disembodied voice of reason attempts to skirt the blame of over serving a customer by accusing the mother of being inadequate? Anon, as to your question,WRONG,and may I say the likes of you are what's wrong with RC...