Nope, not ok at all. If the guy committed a crime, throw the book at him. What I CANNOT tolerate is goobermint-authorized thugs dispensing their brand of “justice” on the side of a road (or in the deep woods, or swamp, or desert...)
If that’s what we’re down to, then there is no Nation worth saving anymore.
Successfully navigating your 20s requires a few things.
*Don’t knock up your girlfriend before you get married.
*Finish high school at least
*avoid entanglements with the criminal justice system
The fake ID holder should have chosen wisely.
I never said that got his just deserts. But he did totally blow off situational awareness and he got his ass kicked in the process.
The bar owner could have very easily been fined jailed and put out of business because this poor youth wants to go have a drink in a bar with a felonious fake ID.
There’s a few more but the point of this list is to successfully navigate the landscape so that one can successfully mitigate any risks in their 30s and on the way to grow up a family and put your children out there with an education and a moral code.
He got his ass kicked, after his bluff failed. He wasn’t charged with a felony, but his record has not been totally expunged, it never is. And I would be surprised if this doesn’t affect him later on down the line and some of the choices he wishes he could make as far as employment options are concerned.
After what I’ve witnessed within my own in-laws I can say that probably the most important thing on that list of successfully navigating a person’s 20-something years is not becoming entangled with the criminal justice system, everything else on that list including some of the items I have forgotten, can be worked through, but any kind of criminal record is an invitation for a police presence over a lifetime after that initial encounter with the criminal justice system.
Sadly, he’s going to find that out. It was all completely avoidable.