My Unlicensed Hovercraft Bar Is Technically Legal
26.10.2020
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If you want to sell alcohol in England, you need a license. But the Licensing Act 2003 has some unusual exceptions. • Thanks to Marc and the team from the Axceler-8 Hovercraft Centre: hovercraftcentre.co.uk/ • Behind the scenes: fiboth.info/like/videot/jIOOo52mztWzdn8
Licensing Act 2003: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/17/contents
Filmed safely: www.tomscott.com/safe/
Camera: Matt Gray mattg.co.uk
Logistics and original idea: Jonty Wareing twitter.com/jonty
Thanks to: Rob Hiseman
Editor: Michelle Martin twitter.com/mrsmmartin
Audio mix: Graham Haerther
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As ever, thanks to everyone who helped out with this! In particular Marc, whose hovercraft will have had a faint smell of beer about it for a day or two afterwards...
Best of luck with making videos in the new British lockdown, I read your covid safety webpage
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You should colab with CGP Grey
@Yudi Merber about 60moh
youre the reason laws are too long
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Why are they wearing masks? This is ages ago.
I understand a flying licence is needed for the hovercraft pilot, as it is technically flying.
0:03 Correction: You need a _loicense_ to sell alcohol in England.
The shouts of triumph 🤘
Thank you to Marc! He's a legend! You as well, Tom, for the idea:)
my hovercraft is full of eels.
Nice subtitles
This has to be one of the most British things I have ever seen.
this title got better and better with each word
*My Hovercraft is full of eels*
Could you open a " pirate " radio station right on the edge of international waters and play music ???
"I am not a good bartender" I strongly disagree.
i work as a bartender and this.... this is endlessly entertaining to me. laws can make things fun sometimes
Legend.
The queens tax service after watching this:
“Things You May Not Know” Before this video, I don’t think I could’ve even known you had a hovercraft pub.
never have coke zero with vodka🤦🏽♂️
"That was legitness"
0:04 Aren't the captions supposed to be "you need a licen *s* e?"
Would it be legal to do most of the transaction while stationary, and just move while the payment is being taken, and drink is handed out
couldn't you stop and let them on, serve them, and then let them off? I feel like that would be much better for client enjoyment.
Hey, mind if I borrow the name for when I open up a hovercraft alcohol-sale business?
In the days when pubs in Wales had to stay shut on Sundays, people used to travel up and down one of the heritage railways which were the only place where you could legally buy booze. There is a legend that the railway had a special Sunday only season ticket and ran trains consisting only of buffet cars; but both of those may might be embellishments in the story
Brilliant exacuted video once again Tom 👌Could I possibly ask how the craft was powered? Was it a gasoline engine or was it a a charged electrical battery? Thanks 🙂
One of the smartest blokes in the country is using a hovercraft to serve pints to get around laws. I love my country.
My favourite video on the internet
I thought hovercrafts were water vehicles?
Great idea testing loopholes so more vids to come? There was once a council sign at a local pond instructing "Persons must not enter the water from the banks." as if they thought that should stop people, but no, you can imagine people strapping on their parachute gear.
I love this sort of stuff.Someone would have gone shouldent we change this law? You could sell alcohol without a license from a hovercraft? And someone would have said naaa, while you could do it, no one is actually gonna do it, so no reason to change the law. And then someone does it! Laws really only get made or changed if someone really goes out and do something and someone says wait, that should be illegal. Which is also why there is plenty of laws that are there, but that no one really enforces, since they have gone obsolete.
Tonight on bottom gear...
(to the tune of "Found Love in a Hopeless Place") WE SOLD BEER FROM A HOVERCRAFT
In the UK you have to measure how much alc you put inside a simple mixer?
4:23 🤢 YUCK! COKE AND RUM!! I will file a complain to The Latin Booze Authority so you mix responsibly
Just tells me there are too many laws in the UK
I can imagine that those ride on model trains might be a tad more practical but this was a tad more fun
"Because who's going to be crazy enough to sell alcohol from a moving hovercraft?" Someone, seeing this video: "Babe! I've heard the best idea for a business..."
It may not be illegal, but I'm happy to say it's probably a warcrime.
I do believe something that ridiculous legally grants you American citizenship. Well done.
lore? lar? ... you mean law? @0:06
Crackhead crazy
I am DEFINITELY checking this out here in the USA 🇺🇸
I see pubowners are resorting to drastic measures to avoid lockdown technicalities
I want Tom Scott as my lawyer.
The sequel to speed we needed
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If the hovercraft needs to be in motion for the selling to be legal does that mean that British trains can't serve alcohol while stopped for any reason?
Wait, I want to hear more about these giant hovercraft that used to cross the English Channel!
that sounds brilliant, why’d they stop it?
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“Technically legal” is the best kind of legal
This video is peak libright, all it’s missing is guns.
Ah yes a guy in a hovercraft yelling "that was legal!"
I didn't know FIboth had forced captions for different languages/difficult-to-hear speech (the latter in this case). that's cool.
tom you’re crazy! i can’t stop laughing hahaha
So I could throw a keg in the back of my wagon and sell beer on the highway?
what a silly and stupid idea... thumbs up :)
it starts with tax evasion and ends a "legal" bar
"Who would ever be ridiculous enough to serve alcohol from a moving hovercraft." I know of a guy.....
Didn’t realise the shot measures were a legal requirement, thought it was just places being cheap and not wanting to over serve you
Wow, fantastic...! 😅👍 But, just a tiny legal detail (there are 3.3k comments, can’t read them all); As I understood it when you referred to the licensing act, doesn’t the customer have to be a de jure passenger for legality’s sake? As an actual traveller aboard not running alongside on the grass? If not stated in the law, a totally ironic omission, leaving it de facto. Law school for MPs, anyone...? 😂👍
Nice Idea BUT, does it need to be a hovercraft ?
This is a great example of "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
Coming up on top gear......
question is, was it then booked by matt to fly over the channel to sark
Put the nozzle at the bottom of the glass, Tom And don't shake a gin martini! You are making me feel a lot better about my skills as a bartender XD
Is this his way of being edgy?
Tom Scott is LIVING! 😂
Tonight on top gear......
Strong wind, fresh air... A bunch of idiots on a hovercraft wearing masks.
I just open the cc caption for english, well its changed colour when other narrator speaking just wanna know how to works?
Do this again but make it full of eels!
Nothing is more badass than breaking the law without actually breaking it
but does it sell a substantial meal
Nobody: "But sir, is that legal?" Tom: "I will make it legal." Tom: gets in hovercraft
i love british accents so much. "vodker and coke"
Americans going through gun law loop holes like
There should be a convincing reason to justify why you don’t need a license to sell alcohol “ when you are on a journey”. Patrons are in the state of reasonable mind at the point of purchase because they have to move concurrently with the seller. Under this circumstance, sellers are waived the duty of care for the patrons if they are intoxicated by questionable alcohol.
Hmmm should have numbered the menu to make it easier.
I was shocked when the price of the Gin and Tonic was just £1.50 😮 like oh the many benefits of Hovercraft liquor sales aside from no need for a licence id reduced rent and taxes.
In finland we have the same law but you have to mark Specific area where your selling the drinks
I didn’t know hovercrafts were an actual thing.
Couldn't you have just picked him up in the hovercraft..conducted your business and dropped him off?
3:20 .......you legally have to measure your drinks. No wonder America was formed.
Eh, this whole alcohol "licensing" thing is just a scam for the gov't to get its fingers into one more pie anyway. Good on you, Tom.
"The hoverpub is alive!" -Tom Scott
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A mulled wine Christmas hovercraft bar sounds nice. But sadly, after checking the hovercraft in the garage, I noticed that it it still full of eels.
Would this also work on a "light railway" ?
Why is no one talking about colored subtitles
Also thats "different position"...
yes
Give me a drink bartender
Tom is like that guy who says 'I never said ***when*** I was gonna pay you' after they lose a bet or something. Looking for the little loopholes..
Hah, the Hoverpub!
I love how in all these videos tom is clearly having a lot of fun
If it didn’t have the protective cover on the fan you could call the pub *The Severed Arms*
Is it just me, or does the hovercraft look like it has been greenscreened on the grass
The Royal Oak v the Hovercraft Pub
Make sure not to do this too much - you might get bartender's elbow
Technically legal, the best kind of legal.
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