re: Report: Chris Berman’s wife was intoxicated at time of crash

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So I need to pay attention to how many drinks 50 people are consuming vs one person having personal responsibility?

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In Louisiana at least, it's technically illegal to serve alcohol to someone who is impaired. Now, how do you know they're impaired? If you're a bartender and a waitress rings in a drink order, you have no idea the inebriation level of the customers. If someone comes up to the bar and orders 3 or 4 beers for their friends, you don't know if their friends are fricked up. Some people are going to look drunk after a few drinks, other people can drink all night and not show outward signs.

I only cut off one guy while I was bartending, and he was stumbling, slurring his speech, visibly intoxicated. I actually poured him one beer that I probably shouldn't have, then told the other bartender that he was going to have to be cut off when I noticed the guy stumbling away. He came back a few minutes later and asked for two more beers, told him I couldn't serve him. He probably just had someone else come buy him a beer later and kept on drinking anyway. Not much I can do about that.