A pair of Brainerd bars will be forced to temporarily shut down after overserving drunk customers, the Chattanooga Beer and Wrecker Board decided Thursday.
The Electric Cowboy, a club in Eastgate Town Center, must close its doors for five days starting May 29 after two men were found passed out in a pickup truck in the parking lot on Feb. 2. And Bud’s Sport’s Bar on Brainerd Road will close for three days because a man was arrested on April 17 for driving under the influence after buying 14 shots of vodka at Bud’s.
The Electric Cowboy has been in business for nine years, while Bud’s Sports Bar has been open for 36 years.
“These are things that shouldn’t happen after a lot of years of experience,” said board member Andre Harriman.
Chattanooga police found the two men at the Electric Cowboy slumped against each other in a pickup truck, said Sgt. David Allen, who heads Chattanooga’s DUI unit. They’d run up a $120 bar tab that included 10 shots of tequila and seven beers, and when a police officer knocked on the window of the truck, the driver tried to drive away.