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From: "Bob Sullivan"
Subject: Re: Very OT: Regulations for drinking alcohol
I sat on the local liquor commission for a number of years.
They heard new liquor license petitions and controlled buy violations
and made recommends.
(Yes, they used under aged teens to test the existing establishments
for compliance.
An underage teen would present an under aged drivers license for
checking/refusal.)
We heard one incident that really bothered me and shows the problems.
Detectives were in an unmarked car at a local convenience center.
They noticed a van of kids approach another older teen entering a liquor
store.
They got the older kid (with a fake ID) to buy them a case of beer.
The kids, 16 to 13 years old, were going to drink the beer while driving
around.
So imagine some night you're gonna meet a 16 year old in a 3,000 pound van
who has just downed a 6 pack of beer for fun. All his inhibitions are
released,
and he's like to see how fast this van can go...
Or maybe your wife & kids will meet him on their way home.
You want to get shit faced, falling down drunk at home, I'd say go for it.
But most parents won't tolerate that behavior a home,
so the teens go out driving in the car.
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Yes well, you guys proved that prohibition doesn't work back in the 1920s,
and yet to this day, we are all still practicing prohibitionists.
If you really want a teenager to try something, make it illegal and tell him
not to do it.
We were all teenagers once, we all know how true this is, and yet we refuse
to learn from our own life experiences.
It's just stupid that we treat teeneagers like infants until they rach an
arbitrary age of majority and then suddenly expect them to be responsible
adults.
We've given them the opportunity to do it, but we've taught them nothing of
the effects of doing it?
So they go off on their own and learn about it with a bunch of other
teenagers who are equally ignorant.
So who's fault is it really when that 16 year old piles his mom's minivan
into your wife and kids?
All we've done is teach him rudimentary driving skills.
William Robb
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