If I was a kid today, and did what I did in the 70's, I would be in prison. Luckily back then, Cops would just shake their heads call us "stupid kids," and send us home. Thank God people back then were less tolerant and didn't practice Tolerance like they do today.
I guess the Government needs to keep police busy to keep the heat off the real criminals (in the Government).
In the 70’s you had to do something serious to be arrested. When they caught kids being stupid in my hometown they would follow you home and then explain to your parents exactly what you had done. Sometimes they would stand there and make you confess to your parents.
I went to high school with a guy who was caught naked with his girlfriend in the back of a station wagon in a corn field. They were also drinking beer. An old farmer saw them and called the law because he had seen them before and he was tired of picking up their beer cans. The cops made them dress and then followed them back to her house. They made my friend admit the whole thing to the girls’ father, who just happened to be chief of police. They ended up marrying and having a bunch of kids. He also graduated from West Point. The entire trajectory of his life would have been different if he had been arrested and slapped with a DUI that night. I’m sure he wouldn’t have been admitted to West Point.