I agree. The headline should read ‘Over an alcoholic drink’ since it wasn’t just lemonade. I’d probably be appalled too, if I saw a young kid drinking an alcoholic drink like that. What would anyone do in the case of a kid openly drinking booze? What if it were beer? No one here would get upset, say something to the parents, call someone? I truly believe it was an honest mistake but still needed to be investigated.
I’ve never had a Mike’s Hard Lemonade and I’ve never seen an ad for it anywhere, but I do know that it’s alcohol, just like hard cider is or that hard sauce is made with rum or brandy. And I know that from *ta da* history books! You’d think Dad would have known that too.
It’s bottled to look like a soft drink. You probably wouldn’t know it was alcohol unless you searched the label.
It functionally is beer, flavored like lemonade. You'd think someone with the education for a PHD would be able to discern the 'hard' part of the lemonade. I wonder what else he got from the vendor when he purchased the Mike's. Maybe Dad had a coke.
The story states that he ordered a lemonade for his son from a vendor and the vendor handed him a Mike's Hard Lemonade, which clearly looks like regular lemonade, including its packaging.
Since the boy showed absolutely no trace of alcohol in his system 90 minutes after the incident, it should have ended there.
>> I’d probably be appalled too, if I saw a young kid drinking an alcoholic drink like that.<<
Good thing you’re in America.
Over in Europe they are drinking wine from birth.
Any you would have had a hissy fit when I put Irish Creme on my daughter’s gums when they were teething.
What part of “I’m the parent” is not in the mix here?