75% alcohol." In the 1st 7 months after the 18th amendment was ratified nearly 900,000 cases of liquor had been shipped from Canada down to the United States. That works out to be about 215 bottles of liquor per person but this accounted for those who drank nothing and those who drank too much.
With the new prohibition laws in place people needed a way to acquire alcohol without the risk of getting caught. Some people saw huge opportunities in this such as Sum Brunfmar who was just a traveler who ran across a hotel that had a license to hold liquor. Brunfmar saw opportunity in this so he bought up a bunch of these hotels and created an illegal liquor empire. Other people sought opportunity to make some money, such as young, ambitious immigrants who saw huge opportunity in a tough job market by running illegal moonshine. At a time when people thought the liquor industry had been killed a new industry arose during this dry utopia and this new industry was here to stay. .
With this new industry coming into play the moonshine distillers would need a way to get there product to the buyers, so this was the birth of moonshine runners. These drivers needed to be quick agile and evade the law who was getting smarter about ways to stop these skilled drivers. Some of these lawmen would attach battery rams to the front of there cars to try and knock the bootleggers off of the side of the road but this tactic was short lived because the moonshine runners learned how to evade this maneuver. The moonshine runners got smarter and would start to use evasive maneuvers such as attaching chains to there bumpers so a cloud of dust would form behind them making them impossible to be stopped or seen by the law. The moonshiners would also hide there moonshine under bleach soaked blankets so that the smell of the moonshine would not alarm the officers if the moonshine runners happened to get caught. The lawmen had a way of spotting who was running moonshine because the cars the moonshine runners would have to have a huge rear suspension to support all of the weight of the moonshine.
