House pages bounced for having pot in dorm

CNN Website ^ | May 1, 2002 Posted: 7:31 PM EDT | Ted Barrett

[Vladiator]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eleven high school-age pages in the House of Representatives were dismissed this week after they were caught with marijuana in their Capitol Hill dormitory, two congressional leadership aides said.

The pages were dismissed under a "zero tolerance" policy by the House Page Board, which oversees the page program.

[Vladiator]

A roommate of one of the pages turned them in.

I hate narcs.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Makes sense, the entire federal government is ripe with fraud and corruption but lets go after the pages for smoking pot. LOL!

[Free the USA]

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[Lance Romance]

I agree. Another insufferable ass-kiss trying to make their bones by ratting out others. Reputations like that can never be erased.

[smith288]

What a boob....now one of these pages will use their relationship they developed with a congressman to make this narcs life hell... Thats my guess anyways.

[Bubba_Leroy]

The 11 pages were all nominated to their positions by Republican members, one aide said.

Of course. If they were democRAT appointees they wouldn't have been fired. They just would have been required to share.

[ThreeYearLurker]

I hate druggies

[gdani]

If they were democRAT appointees they wouldn't have been fired. They just would have been required to share.

Unless it was Newt or Clarence Thomas....

[hillary's_fat_a**]

They should have said 'I DIDN'T INHALE' - that's been known to work before!

[Looking4Truth]

This is rich. "Do as we say, not as we do."

The underlying lesson is probably "don't get caught". Non-devious pages don't make good politicians.

[wimpycat]

I hate the attitudes of people who think reporting a crime is worse than the crime itself.

[maxwell]

Hey, they work on Capitol Hill. I'd be high all the time too.

[maxwell]

Bwahaha... Cool screen name, dude...

[Willie Green]

The pages, who attend a special school for them, come from around the country to handle various administrative duties on the House floor and around the Hill.

Sounds like a wasteful congressional perk that can be eliminated.

[Don Myers]

Knowing some of our congress-critters, I have to wonder just what all of the page's duties are.

[Stone Mountain]

I hate the attitudes of people who think reporting a crime is worse than the crime itself.

Well, it depends on the crime...

[Lance Romance]

This person that ratted them out was obviously trying to make suck ass points. Is there a better way to make yourself look good than by making others look bad?

The best way to handle this would have been for her to tell her roomate that she didn't want this stuff around and she didn't want to be her roomate.

However, she realized there was a chance to exploit this to her benefit and did. Watch out for this bitch in the future. She'll try to sleep and screw her way up the congressional ladder.

[vin-one]

I hate the attitudes of people who think reporting a crime is worse than the crime itself.
especialy for a crime that shouldn't be a crime.
except for the fact they were highschool kids.
I wonder is that why they call it HIGH school

[ffusco]

I hate vindictive, sneaky, cowardly worms. The snitch was not out fighting crime, he/she betrayed his/her collegues.

[wimpycat]

You're automatically assuming that since two people room together, that they must be friends, and that any sort of loyalty is owed.

I had two different roommates in college, neither one of whom I'd ever seen before moving-in day. One was really nice and we became friends, the other was a bitch, but we managed to co-exist peacefully together.

How do you know the "snitch" was being vindictive, unless, of course, you're drawing on some past experience of your own? How do you know the circumstances of what led the roommate to call the cops because a crime was being committed in the roommate's room?

I say, to HELL with any sort of pseudo-omerta among teenagers committing crimes.

If I was at a friend's house and they were getting high, I would not call the cops. I smoked pot a few times when I was a teenager, but I've long since grown up. If my so-called colleagues lit up a joint in my room, I would give them the chance to take it someplace else and nothing would be said. But if I told them to take it someplace else and they blew me off, if they showed no respect for my request, for my wish to not have marijuana in my room, I would threaten to call the cops until they got the stuff out of my room.

Maybe those dumbass kids will learn a lesson while they're young and won't be saying stupid sh** about "narcs" and "snitches" twenty years later.

Why don't you place the blame where it belongs, on the dumbass kids who ruined a perfectly good opportunity by breaking the Page rules and breaking the law? They're the ones at fault, not the roommate. They're the stupid ones, not the roommate.