Are you legally allowed to drink at midnight the day you turn 21?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Crusty

Crusty

Lifer
Sep 30, 2001
12,684
2
81
Most bars around here will let you in before midnight the night before your birthday as long as it's already pretty late so you can definitely get in after midnight.
 
gaidensensei

gaidensensei

Banned
May 31, 2003
2,851
2
81
What if you're still 20 but you are 14 hours ahead in another country and you turn 21?

Btw are you turning 21 or are you linking to the article?
Reason I ask is because that's dated in 2005.
 
Last edited:
effowe

effowe

Diamond Member
Nov 1, 2004
6,012
18
81
Me and a few people have gone to bars at midnight on the day of our 21st. There were no problems getting in, and sometimes you get free drinks.
 
Brainonska511

Brainonska511

Lifer
Dec 10, 2005
27,517
11,866
136
What a dumb bill. Now they'll just party the night that they are 21 instead of the night that they turn 21.
 
mesthead21

mesthead21

Platinum Member
Jun 5, 2004
2,378
3
0
Not sure, in AZ I went out midnight when I turned 21 and it was fine. I don't see why it would be illegal, since you are technically 21
 
xanis

xanis

Lifer
Sep 11, 2005
17,571
8
0
I turned 21 back in February and went to the bar at midnight. No problems whatsoever.

Also, why would it be illegal? 12am is the official start of a new day, so legally and officially you're 21.
 
S

Syringer

Lifer
Aug 2, 2001
19,333
2
71
xanis said:
I turned 21 back in February and went to the bar at midnight. No problems whatsoever.

Also, why would it be illegal? 12am is the official start of a new day, so legally and officially you're 21.
Click to expand...

Well if you were born at 9am of that day, you're still 21 - 9 hours at midnight.

And no I'm 26..one of our employees is turning 21 this weekend and was wondering how it works.
 
sandorski

sandorski

No Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
70,652
6,219
126
Syringer said:
Well if you were born at 9am of that day, you're still 21 - 9 hours at midnight.

And no I'm 26..one of our employees is turning 21 this weekend and was wondering how it works.
Click to expand...

Goto Liquor, save a ton of $, Midnight at friends house have a Drink.
 
Linflas

Linflas

Lifer
Jan 30, 2001
15,395
78
91
Anubis said:
its Virginia IIRC that lets you drink like an entire day before you turn 21 or something strange like that
Click to expand...

Wouldn't surprise me, we have always had some really weird laws regarding alcohol. When I was of an age to have to worry about drinking ages in Virginia we could buy beer and wine at age 18, hard liquor only when you were 21. They originally required stores to stop selling at 1AM, then changed it to 2AM, then followed that up by changing it to midnight. All they really accomplished in Northern Virginia with all this was boost the sales of hard liquor in PG County and DC liquor stores and make a lot of money for the 1st store on the PG side of the river selling beer after midnight.
 
Kadarin

Kadarin

Lifer
Nov 23, 2001
44,296
16
81
Stupid bill. Either you are of legal age or you are not, which means there comes a point in time at which you become the legal age. Shifting that point of time makes no sense whatsoever.
 
T

thepd7

Diamond Member
Jan 2, 2005
9,423
0
0
mesthead21 said:
Not sure, in AZ I went out midnight when I turned 21 and it was fine. I don't see why it would be illegal, since you are technically 21
Click to expand...

Yeah at ASU they call that "the power hour". It's basically drink as much as you can between midnight and when the bar closes.
 
OverVolt

OverVolt

Lifer
Aug 31, 2002
14,278
89
91
Yea I don't see whats wrong with that. If anyone gives you trouble over that than they are dicks.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom