Posted on 12/29/2010 2:48:18 PM PST by DemforBush
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Police say a New York woman shared rum with two teenagers who helped her shovel snow.
White Plains public safety police commissioner, David Chong, says the boys' parents called police after the teens came home in a "highly intoxicated state" Monday.
The boys are 17 and 18. New York's legal drinking age is 21...
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Jerks.
I learned all about life that summer. Nobody got arrested and I learned to responsibly behave like an adult.
The little bastards who drank the rum and behaved like idiots are the problem here.
You know, there was a time when such a thing was no big deal.
I do not imbibe alcohol at all, since I was delivered by Jesus out of that addiction.
However, if a neighbor offered intoxicating drink to one of my children, and he came home drunk, I would have a chat with the neighbor and with my child. There would be no need to call the cops.
Soon everyone will be a criminal for something.
Pathetic.
Not to mention, how much work are you gonna get out of a drunken teenager?
In the old days the cops would have stopped by the ladies house and just told her not to do it again. Now it’s a big deal and “somebody must be punished!”
When I was in my teens I would often stop by a local history museum on my way home. I became friends with the curator and maintenance man (the only paid staff the museum had). A time came when I would sit in the maintenance room with them and they would share the occasional shot of vodka or rum or occasionally “wino wine” that seemed to be omnipresent in that good place. Times have changed... and in cases like this not for the better.
Re #4:
You are far too guilty of having far too much common sense.
I like the new Captain Morgan motto: Debauch responsibly.
Oh! The horror!!
The reason for raising the drinking age since then was teens drunk driving. If they weren’t driving, no biggie.
The 18 year olds should go make a porno movie without condoms or something.
Not that what I’m about to state has any bearing on this story....... but yesterday morning, on my way to work I saw 2 young white teenagers, shovel in hands, going door to door.
I cannot tell you the last time I have seen that. Usually it’s the illegals I see, but I was just so happy I gave them a thumbs up.
What I saw yesterday was an usual occurrence during a bad snowfall. I haven’t seen it in so long, it almost made me cry.
If I wasn’t on my way to work, I would have stopped, given the boys a ride to my home and paid them to shovel what I couldn’t.
Probably would have paid them double, just because I was so happy to see them!
Nothin' wrong with gettin' a little captain in ye when the weather be foul.
I painted my Grandma’s house when I was 16. After I finished the job, she gave me a beer because, as she said, I did a man’s job and had earned it. It gave me a good memory of me and my grandma.
About five years later, I gave her a first motorcycle ride ever on her 70th birthday. She was happy as could be, riding around her small town waving at her neighbors. :-)
“However, if a neighbor offered intoxicating drink to one of my children, and he came home drunk, I would have a chat with the neighbor and with my child. There would be no need to call the cops.”
Parenting. It’s an amazing thing.
Yet the NY cops turn a blind eye to every club that allows under 21 “celebrities” come and get hammered to the point of oblivion....
Jerks indeed.
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