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Instead of Mean Mommies, how about Peeved Parents? Dads have the right to say no, too!93 posted on 7/21/02 9:32 PM Eastern by hunter112
For ALL the reasons already stated and recapped.
May I relate this true story: We live in a very upscale town, full of professionals and artists/writers. On evening I received a phone call from a neighbor, a DOCTOR, who explained about a party he and his wife were planning for their 18 y/o daughter. The type of party you described to a T. He said his call was a "heads up" because he didn't want the neighbors to be surprised about the large numbers of cars and noise that might come from his area in two weeks. He (stupidly) asked if "I minded."
That unleashed a tirade from me since my boys were 16, 18 and 20 at the time. Not only was it against the law, but several nuisance laws were to be broken as well (noise, cars parked on a narrow rural roadway ... what if firetrucks needed to get through, etc.) I told him clearly that just because he had "doctor" in front of his name, didn't mean he had any brains.
Well, the upshot of it was that kids came from not only other towns, but places that were out of the school district and some were from neighboring states. A neighbor who lived nearer this "village idiot" called the local police because she could see everything from her bedroom window and her 12 y/o daughter was very impressionable. The constables came and did not enter the property. I later found out the doc was well connected to the Democrat party in town ("rat First Selectman) and two of the constable's children were at the party. Another neighbor eventually called the State Police who entered the property and took away the drugs and alcohol. I don't know, to this day if any arrests/citations were made, but for a year afterward, vandals kept smashing ALL the mailboxes on our street in "retaliation" for the police being called (except the mailbox of the doctor/host). It all finally ended after these kids went off to college.
Good luck. But if you THINK about it, your decision should be VERY clear. &;-)