If they want you, they can get you. Here in Texas it is illegal to carry a
pair of pliers in the trunk of your car. (From the fence cutting war days)
and they use that law when they need to get someone. It is legal for you to
make wine to be consumed at your own table but it is illegal for you to give
a bottle to a friend or consume it at his table. (There are provisions for
wine contests.) I suspect that most of us break some of those laws. Not me
off course but most of us.

Ray
"bwesley7" > wrote in message
news:kQelc.3300$nN6.2773@lakeread06...
> I'm part owner of a tract of undeveloped acreage (~22 acres), and
> occasionally take a walk through the woods. This afternoon, I came across
an
> old junk pile, consisting mostly of a few rusted cans and broken bottles.
> One of those bottles was apparently an old liquor bottle, screwtop, no
label
> remaining, but with the following embossed (raised?) on the glass:
"Federal
> law forbids sale or reuse of this bottle." At the bottom was also
embossed:
> "4/5 Quart."
>
> Is there some federal statute that we violate every time we reuse a wine
> bottle?
>
> Bart
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