Serving Too Soon
It wouldn’t be sweeps at 40/29 if we didn’t need to blur a few stories. This first one involved our cameras following an undercover volunteer “decoy” or two, minors who help police out by going into various liquor stores, restaurants and other venues and try to buy alcoholic beverages. If the person on the other end of the counter won’t fork over the drinks without a valid driver’s license, that business passes the test. But if, as at least a couple of them did in this promo, they serve drinks without a proper ID check, the fun begins. In addition to the promo, I also obscured the identities of nearly everyone who wasn’t a uniformed police officer in the story itself; fortunately, Beth Burnett was on this story early enough that the blurring wasn’t a big problem, and I was able to get the script written fairly early.
