Wis. Cops Raid Give Breath Tests For Root Beer
Cops in Wausau, Wis.
raided a party serving root beer to teenagers. You know, root beer, the soda nine-year old kids drink. They tested almost 90 kids for alcohol, found NONE. They looked all over the house for hiding teenagers, including closets. Found NO ALCOHOL. Police defended their actions:
"If one kid had come there, even hadn't drank there, but had come there and had been drinking and had left and crashed and burned, then what would the sentiment be? Why didn't the police check everybody out?"
They would've thought, "Man, I'm never going to let someone who drinks into my house where they can have soda. Fuck that. They should DRIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE."
Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at D.C. Everest High School got suspended from sports because of pictures showing them drinking from red cups.
Red cups, the universal sign for BEER.
Great job, Mister Policeman. You showed EXACTLY how stupid you are.
Labels: alcohol, high school, police, police state, raid, teens, wisconsin
Reporters take an oath to the dollar, not the truth
Watch exaggeration about a suspected DUI:
He is charged with his fifth drunken driving offense, a felony, and disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. If convicted, he faces a maximum six years in prison and a $10,000 fine, but those penalties double because he had two young children in the vehicle at the time.
He had kids in the car? That's fucked up. What's that? He had kids in the car but he wasn't driving? And he was on private property?He placed the 6-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl, both of whom were crying, into his Lincoln sport utility vehicle.
Witnesses heard the engine rev but said the SUV did not move.
At that point, a sheriff's deputy arrived and took Hansford into custody.
Yeah. Exceptional reporting. Ignoring misleading "facts", if this is true, the guy and his kids need help.
Labels: alcohol, dui, journalism, law, police
The absurdity of legal rights and responsibilities of minors.
I love the logic of cops:
A 14yo girl isn't old enough to drink--she's not responsible enough
A 14yo girl isn't old enough to drive--she's not responsible enough.
But she can get
charged with a DUI if she does both because
THAT she can be held responsible for?
Labels: alcohol, driving, minors, responsibility, rights
Dr. King says, "Drink Malt Liquor"
Last year, students at Tarleton State University celebrated Martin Luther King's birthday with
"an off-campus party in which students dressed in hip-hop attire and sported 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor. Photos from the ``Bullets & Bubbly'' party were posted on Facebook.com."These kids are not alone:
In October, a group of first-year law students at the University of Texas at Austin were chided by the dean for participating in a “Ghetto Fabulous”-themed costume party and posting pictures online. Partygoers carried 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor and wore Afro wigs, necklaces with large medallions and name tags bearing historically black and Hispanic names.
But don't be afraid, the government is ready to crack down on these horrific parties that occur on private property and without public funding or support and involve no one getting hurt.
“If you look up the definitions for stereotype, bigot and prejudice, you will see they all mean the same thing. All those words are based on prejudging another class of people, which is exactly what Dr. King was fighting against,” [State Rep. Garnet F. Coleman, D-Houston] said in a statement. “What these students did and the day they did it on shows they were trying to be purposefully ignorant and prejudiced.”
Actually, Mr. State Representative, "stereotype", "bigot" and "prejudice" mean different things.
Some photos were archived at
The Smoking Gun.
I'm gonna get rich when I invent malt liquor flavored fried chicken.
Labels: alcohol, college, facebook, mlk, politics, racism, Tarleton State University
Patron XO improves a Rum and Coke.
Surprising.
Labels: alcohol
Atlanta tells customers to stay home.
The Atlanta City Council
passed a resolution barring anyone under 21 from businesses that serve alcohol (excepting a few, such as groceries and restaurants). Their logic is, "Since a person under 21 can't drink in a nightclub, they should not be in these establishments." Balderdash.
New York City had a rule (maybe still does) that you had to be 13 to be at the bar (sitting or standing). I know this because I was shooed away from the bar and back to my table a few times when I wasn't yet 13. I wasn't anywhere close to 13, truthfully. Bars serve food and they also show pay-per-view sporting events--that was reason enough for me to be there in grade school.
When I came to college, years before I could drink, I'd still go to bars and clubs with friends. I wasn't drinking but I was still able to have fun. It's a false assumption that the only reason people go to bars or clubs or such is to drink--they go to socialize and drinking is how the businesses are able to pay the bills.
Atlanta is working very hard to make the city unpalatable for anyone under 50. They're turning Buckhead into Disneyland with shopping malls and tourist traps. Midtown has been gutted and little local flavor remains, replaced by condos. An event center I frequent has been in a battle to get licenses for a larger space and is being battled by a group that doesn't want us there (the battle has been pretty harsh, with someone printing fake flyers advertising illegal events at the space).
I started going over to Decatur to drink. I don't have to deal with smokers, they pour later (though I'm rarely out that late anymore), and the city and county seem to WANT my business. Atlanta will quickly learn that the old farts trying to make the city quiet aren't willing to pay the taxes that the businesses provide.
Labels: alcohol, atlanta, decatur, government, politics
3 guys, an ATV and a police report.
Three guys are hanging around drinking. One of the guys has an ATV. One of the other guys says, "Hey, can I ride your ATV?" First guy says, "Dude, you're blind!" Blind guy says, "I know, but I'll be cool." First guy again, "Ok, just don't go too fast."
"Too fast" and two trees later,
legally blind is now legally dead.
That's really funny but the worst part is that his friends are likely going to be arrested by the cops for negligent homicide or sued by someone in the guy's family for not stopping him. It's a little know fact that when you're blind you also stop being an adult. I'm just glad he didn't buy a cup of Mickey D's coffee before he took off.
Labels: alcohol, atv, blind, death, police, responsibility
