The quality of journalism in this piece is abysmal!
They say they picked up “nearly a case?” What constitutes a case? A 12 pack? They go on to say that 11 beers were consumed. So did they pick up an 11-pack? Were these 8 oz. beers? 16 oz? The journalist should be fired for awful use of the English language.
Besides that, this article is just downright sad. Paradoxically, I think we should lower the drinking age to 18, reducing the allure. When you tell kids they can’t drink, they’re going to find a way to do it!
I had a fake ID for my first few years of college, and it got me 6 packs of PBR from the convenience store in Nowheresville, but once I turned 21, the allure was gone. Drinking was just another social acitivity. These kids have no idea how alcohol affects them; they just believe they’re invincible.
I think a Lynn Item story says it was a case of 30, “minus four beers”. I’m guessing 12 oz cans but who knows.
>>The quality of journalism in this piece is abysmal!
Boston Globe! Still publishing! Amazing but true!
>>When you tell kids they can’t drink, they’re going to find a way to do it!
Indeed
>>they just believe they’re invincible.
“It will never happen to me”. They’ll have that drill at the high school where they tow a car which had been in a drunk driving accident and have some kids act out a bit of a play about what happens when you drive drunk. And the kids will watch this and go, yeah, but I can handle a few beers and drive fine.
It will never happen to me.