[tutstar]

If there's a law saying the kids must keep a curfew then it's every bit of the police's business.

The only folks I can think of that might hang out at a Denny's at 1a.m. are drunks and drug addicts (with a small portion of patrons consisting of adults who work shifts that might have them out at this hour.) Add teens to the mix and then there's a whole lot of other 'not good' things that could happen, which are criminal for either age group.

[JeffAtlanta]

If there's a law saying the kids must keep a curfew then it's every bit of the police's business.

Then you should have no problem with hate crime prosecutions.

[gdani]

The only folks I can think of that might hang out at a Denny's at 1a.m. are drunks and drug addicts (with a small portion of patrons consisting of adults who work shifts that might have them out at this hour.) Add teens to the mix and then there's a whole lot of other 'not good' things that could happen, which are criminal for either age group.

Not everyone goes to bed at 10pm, as you apparently do.

And your statement makes it sound like you support curfews for adults as well as minors.

[JeffAtlanta]

The only folks I can think of that might hang out at a Denny's at 1a.m. are drunks and drug addicts (with a small portion of patrons consisting of adults who work shifts that might have them out at this hour.) Add teens to the mix and then there's a whole lot of other 'not good' things that could happen, which are criminal for either age group.

Do you live in a trailer park or in the hood? I go to Denny's and Waffle House all the time late at night and its almost exclusively young adults working a school project or winding down from one and workers getting off of a late shift. If teenagers want to stay out late at Denny's at talk that should be only the concern of their parents. If they are being disruptive then the restaurant can have them removed. I've never seen this happen.

[Modernman]

If there's a law saying the kids must keep a curfew then it's every bit of the police's business.

The debate here is whether thos laws are acceptable in the 1st place. I don't think they are.

The only folks I can think of that might hang out at a Denny's at 1a.m. are drunks and drug addicts (with a small portion of patrons consisting of adults who work shifts that might have them out at this hour.)

Or people coming back from a night on the town. Or night owls, like me. Or people who got hungry late at night.

Anyway, Denny's is free to ban people under a certain age from their restaurants after 11 pm or whatever. Why get the government involved?