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California - A Placer County man has been arrested after he broke into a shuttered bar, reopened the business and started selling drinks to unwitting customers, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s department. The Placer County Sheriff’s department arrested 29-year-old Travis Kevie of Newcastle after his 4-day stint as the barkeep of the historic Valencia Club in Penryn which had been shutdown for more than a year. Detective Jim Hudson became suspicious after reading about the Valencia Club’s re-opening in a newspaper article that featured a picture of Kevie and identified him as the club’s new “owner/operator”. Not only had Detective Hudson had previous run-ins with Kevie, he knew the Valencia Club’s liquor license had been surrendered. Deputies describe Kevie as a transient. They say he broke into the Valencia Club and put an open sign in the window on July 16th.  Kevie kicked off his business with a six-pack of beer he bought and resold at the club.  He used his profits to buy more alcohol keeping the club open throughout the weekend serving about 30 customers a day, deputies say.

Some people, like Detective Jim Hudson, take a look at Travis Kevie and they say “transient squatter.” Other people, such as internet blogging sensation/successful entrepreneur KFC, and probably the likes of Warren Buffet, Richard Branson, etc,, take one look at Travie Kevie and they see the American Spirit. They see an opportunistic capitalist filling a market need. Dude is basically just running an oversized lemonade stand for bums who day drink. Basically a small business owner if you ask me. He took an abandoned building and a 6 pack of Keystone and he turned it into the American Dream. What’s that you say? Serving 30 homeless vagrants beer out of a condemned building for 4 days isn’t your idea of a dream? To each his own, my friend. Another lovely feature of America. But I’m sure Detective Jim Hudson would shut down Freedom of Dream as well if he could.