The Bootlegger on the State Line

Franklin County in northern Alabama is dry: no sales of alcohol, even beer.  But there are bootleggers.

One of these free eterprise spirits had a large one with an incredible stock of beer.  He was on the Alabama-Mississippi state line in a large chicken coop.  And every time the Franklin County Sheriff and deputies would try to raid, they would simply transport the stock using a forklift into Mississippi.

They got away with that for years.  Finally, some bright deputy figured out that maybe they could coordinate raids with the sheriff from the adjacent Mississippi county.  Or maybe, unlike the others, he was not on the take.