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- acmaurer, on 03/12/2009, -3/+41Exactly. And, while I'm not condoning what happened, if they didn't want to be found out, then they shouldn't have posted PHOTOS of the teens drinking on Facebook!
- nvtyson, on 03/12/2009, -3/+36Getting drunk at your friends 18th birthday party is the perfect reason for officials to jeopardize and ruin otherwise relatively responsible teens future. A girl is in danger of losing her scholarship because of a few shots of schnapps WITH parental supervision? The cops are doing more harm than good and should be arrested for peeping on under-aged teen photo's...
- theberlindoctor, on 03/12/2009, -4/+36It wasnt me. Those were all photoshopped to make me look cool.
- Nekura20x6, on 03/12/2009, -8/+39Prove from that picture that they were drinking alcohol. Oh, you can't? Case dismissed.
I'm all for fining idiot parents, but showing someone with a cup or bottle in their hand doesn't mean they were actually drinking to the level required by the court. - ddogfilm, on 03/12/2009, -17/+46this does not seem right for the police to police the internet now
- seattlegirluw, on 03/12/2009, -2/+29Okay you can make that argument, but what about a picture or video that showed a child being abused or living in extremely unsafe conditions?
- digitalpencil, on 03/12/2009, -2/+26i'm sorry but America's 21 rule is ***** retarded.. if they didn't have such an overly patronizing stance against alcohol in the first place none of this would be an issue. they're adults for Christ's sake! You can send them to war as front-line cannon fodder but God forbid you'd give them a beer before they ship off?!
- nick2525, on 03/12/2009, -0/+20Facebook can get you into all kinds of trouble. I've learned that you need to put some thought into what you say and do on that site.
- Ismith988, on 03/12/2009, -1/+21I don't see a problem with parents supervising underage drinkers.
- lololol1, on 03/12/2009, -1/+20Wait. You americans actually enforce underage drinking laws?
- mrsteveman1, on 03/12/2009, -1/+19Or we could stop pretending that kids will magically stop drinking if we punish parents who provide a safe place for them to drink. This doesn't accomplish anything.
- digggggggggg, on 03/12/2009, -0/+18That's why you always use red cups.
- Ajajadude, on 03/12/2009, -2/+19Well, you could try NOT posting pictures of yourself doing illegal things.
Anyway, parents brought this to the attention of the authorities. It's not as if cops are just sitting at their desks now pouring over picture after picture on Myspace or Facebook. - spyd3rweb, on 03/12/2009, -0/+17The lesson is... never talk to the police.
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -1/+18What's even worse than this story? There are schools out there who will punish students based on red plastic cups in photos.
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -1/+17Don't want to get in trouble, don't be a moron and post pictures of your illegal exploits on the Internet. It's simple, really.
- kalvinb, on 03/12/2009, -0/+14In this case 7 of the 9 kids admitted to drinking alchohol. It's rather hard to talk your way out of that one. Even harder since it was an 18th b-day party so many of the kids who admitted it were probably legally adults.
- schortfilms, on 03/12/2009, -0/+14First of all, that's true, they shouldn't be posting incriminating photos of themselves. On the other hand, are we really that much of a bunch of buckle-wearing Puritans? From the sounds of the report these are good kids that were going places. No one was getting hurt - they don't deserve to lose scholarships over this stupidity.
- RudeTurnip, on 03/12/2009, -0/+13Isn't that how cans of Budweiser and Coors Light come from the distributor already?
- beingdevious, on 03/12/2009, -2/+14were the police there to confiscate the cups? no.
did the police test the liquid in the cups? no.
cause for reasonable doubt? YES
i dont care if the kids were drinking out of a damn beer bottle. if theres no evidence to PROVE it was alcohol, all charges should be dropped.
not condoning underage drinking, but i am PROTESTING lazy cops and sneaky laws. - diggitalism, on 03/12/2009, -0/+12broadcast your life on the internet and something's bound to ***** up
- ZeroCubed, on 03/12/2009, -0/+12Um, according to law, they can only be charged with 8 counts of providing alcohol to a minor, because the law allows parents to provide alcohol to their children. A parent can bring their child to a bar, buy a beer and give it to their kid (the parent has to be the one who hands it to the kid, not the bartender), and nothing in the law can stop them. So they can't be charged for providing alcohol to their own daughter.
- Stingwolf, on 03/12/2009, -2/+13I think the argument is not about them being forced to go to war, but rather: If they are old/wise enough to make the decision to risk life and limb for their country, why are they not old/wise enough to decide what they drink.
- MediaCrisis, on 03/12/2009, -1/+12Parenting means keeping your kids safe. A lot of parents are of the persuasion that their teenage kids are going to drink regardless, and they'd rather have them do it in a safe environment.
Is it smart to post pictures on the internet? No. But putting their home on display on the 11 o clock news is a bit much for something this inane. - shulkman, on 03/12/2009, -1/+11It's called Minor in Possession... Key word is possession. For that, you don't have to prove consumption.
- lilrabbit129, on 03/12/2009, -0/+9Totally agree. I'd much rather have my kids drinking alchohol at my house, where I can monitor what they're doing, how much they drink, and what they do afterwards ( drinking and driving, etc..).
If more parents made drinking alcohol a privilege instead of some mysterious, rebellious, forbidden thing LESS kids would do it. Cut down on the drinking related accidents too. - kalvinb, on 03/12/2009, -0/+9Good on the parents for being responsible and serving the alchohol in a safe and supervised location.
Bad on the parents for not having the parents of ALL the kids there. Parents can give alchohol to their own kids but not to other people's kids.
Bad on the kids for signing a contract that included a no alchohol clause and breaking it. The parents should have known about the contract too and took it seriously. Ultimately the parents are responsible for those kids possibly losing scholarships if not just getting kicked off the team. - kesin, on 03/12/2009, -0/+8nah some kid that wasnt invited but was friends with someone tagged got jealous.
- rd1010, on 03/12/2009, -5/+13And we slip further and further into becoming a police state...
- michaelrsa, on 03/12/2009, -0/+7@acmaurer, spot on. If someone post confidential information on Facebook I don't want them to come crying about privacy invasion. They give that up when they willingly post stuff that will get them in trouble.
- mjk340, on 03/12/2009, -0/+7Alcohol possession laws vary by state.
- v0ider, on 03/12/2009, -2/+8How exactly are the police going to prove that someone didn't just fill a can of beer with water and drink it?
- Frostek, on 03/12/2009, -19/+25Good - they might remember what parenting means.
Plus they might learn that taking pictures of stuff like this and posting it on the net for anyone to see has a negative side. - MediaCrisis, on 03/12/2009, -1/+7As a relatively young citizen of CT, may I point out that there is NOTHING ELSE TO DO here but drink and smoke pot? We're not old, we don't like to go antiquing and look at big colonial houses on the weekends.
And since when was it illegal for minors to drink at home? I could just be completely ignorant of the details of underage drinking laws (being that I can legally drink anyway), but I've been drinking wine with dinner since I was in my early teens and the police never took my parents away. Then again, facebook didn't exist back then.. - acknotSW, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6Um, they do actually, when they catch them.
- tacobueno, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6Ddon't say a word to the cops and don't admit to drinking.
The 2 of the 9 that didnt confess were the smart ones - morningmatters, on 03/12/2009, -0/+5The Internet is Serious business.
- Javy42, on 03/12/2009, -0/+5its only the petty stupid laws we enforce here... people stealing billions is too much trouble to investigate. this doesn't even require putting on pants to investigate...
- Javy42, on 03/12/2009, -1/+6The cops are doing their jobs by being lazy as ***** and only enforcing minor infractions and ruining people's lives.
- Rigley, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4What did they do, add school administrators as friends?
- kalvinb, on 03/12/2009, -3/+7I always drink water from a beer can and then look and act drunk. I also like to save money by reusing beer cans as cups for my children.
"beyond a reasonable doubt"
Your argument doesn't create "reasonable doubt."
You could just as well argue that Santa gave them the beer. - michaelrsa, on 03/12/2009, -1/+5Will people ever learn not to post pictures that they will later come to regret? It's a hell of a lot easier to not post than to post, why do people continue to put up stuff that any person with half a brain cell could tell would cause trouble?
- jirv, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4this is why i deleted every single picture off of my facebook account eff that
- ch4os1337, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4The only reason there's pictures of me drinking on Facebook is because other people have taken pictures and tagged me, when I untag myself the pictures are still there. I don't upload my own pictures of me drinking, that's just lame.
- mjk340, on 03/12/2009, -1/+5@strangwill
A more appropriate analogy:
Say we have a film of someone allegedly stabbing someone else. Can we prosecute based on the film alone with no weapon, body, or motive?
We can start prosecuting every Hollywood actor who ever starred in an action film for murder if all we need is alleged video evidence. - TheNik, on 03/12/2009, -1/+5Obviously there should be discretion used to differentiate the types of crimes. Child abuse is, say, a bit more of a problem than underage consumption. There's also the problem of actually proving there was a crime committed. A child beaten and bruised can only be seen one or two ways and both of them involve something illegal, but pictures of teenagers with bottles, cans or cups that appear to have alcohol aren't exactly incriminating in my opinion. It may be a beer bottle, but that doesn't mean its contents are beer or even if it has anything in it. Looking at something through a picture is very different than actually witnessing it. Do actors drink when their characters do? Or smoke? Probably not, therefore you can't pin them for it.
- blckpnthr, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3Wow i am sooo surprised
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3Photos should be used only to STOP problems, and not to punish people.
You see a photo of kids in an unsafe home, go get them out. Help the kids but leave your selfish need for vengeance at home.
I think Ill start a business where adults pay me to ***** over someone they hate, and then I pay some kid to make friends with the target's son or daughter and take phone-pics until we find something illegal. Hurrah! Every second your children have friends over big brother is watching! - shannondoko, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3Liquid refreshments.. of the alcoholic kind..
- StupotAce, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3They aren't policing the internet in this case...they are using the internet to gather information. Frankly, they are using the internet exactly as it was intended.
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