Now That's What I Call Private Policing

If David Friedman and Jacob Sullum opened a bar together, this would probably be their solution to binge drinking and drunken rowdiness.

Some Pennsylvania bars are demanding customers' credit-card numbers and charging them if they vomit or otherwise damage property while drinking, Washington Square News reported Sept. 25.

Groups of six or more patrons at El Azteca restaurant and bar near Pennsylvania University, for example, are required to sign a contract that includes a credit-card number as insurance against damages by drunk patrons. If any member of the party vomits on the premises, for instance, all members of the group are hit with a $50 charge.

In other vomit news, doctors in Australia are urging their patients to vomit in government-run hospitals to get quick attention to their needs, the vomit-stained corpse of a 500-year-old "Llullaillaco Boy" shows that parents had a more libertarian view of child drug use in the good old days of death marches, and a woman too stupid to avoid slipping on a puddle of vomit in Wal-Mart provides a lot of ammo to those seeking tort reform.