[Awestruck]

bill the kid? how about billing the police genius that kept testing the kids after he figured out there was no alcohol on the premises.. or how about not assuming that all kids are up to no good? how about unwarranted searches? The police f’ed up..not the kids...

[Red_Devil 232]

I suppose you read the second to last paragraph? It explains why they continued testing.

[wku man]

And when, pray tell, did the cops "figure out there was no alcohol on the perimises"? Maybe after they searched the house and its occupants, and conducted the breath tests? The keg may have been full of root beer, but that doesn't mean there wasn't any alcohol there. How could the cops know any other way than by searching and testing? If you read the whole article, the police chief makes his point when he said,

"If one kid had come there, even hadn't drank there, but had come there and had been drinking and had left and crashed and burned, then what would the sentiment be? Why didn't the police check everybody out?"

When you have a probable cause situation, cops can't just conduct a cursory once over and assume there's nothing illegal going on. Had just one kid been drinking there, and got into a wreck on the way home, there would've been hell to pay. Try looking at it through the eyes of the cop, and I think you'll see they did what they had to.

And yes, the little a**hole trying to get a "gotcha" in on the cops should have to pay for everything. Maybe next time he has a party, he'll tell his little friends to park a little better and be a little quieter.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!