SPRINGFIELD, Vt. - Town officials have nixed an idea for a jailhouse bar. The Select Board, acting as the town liquor board, rejected an inmate's application to sell liquor from the state prison.Damn. And he had a hell of a marketing campaign ready, too....."Get Hammered at the Slammer!"
Paul Murphy of Worcester, Mass., is serving time at the Southern State Correctional Facility for aggravated assault, escape and passing bad checks.
But, other than that, he's a good boy....
He said in an application for a first- and second-class liquor license that he wanted to sell liquor from his home, which he listed as 700 Charlestown Road. That also happens to be the address of the state prison just east of downtown Springfield. Regardless of the bid to have liquor delivered to a prison, town officials say many portions of the application were left blank.
Probably the parts about the prospective proprietor's criminal history, I bet.
| Oh ye of suspicious mind. |
Springfield officials were surprised to receive the application. They assumed prison officials would have caught it before it was sent and they believed the state Liquor Control Department also would have stopped it.
| Not if there was a fifty dollar bill stapled to it. |