neecy
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There's a HUGE arguement going around my town because last weekend was prom here, and the parents of about 30 grads got together and set up a huge graduation party for about 150 grads from one of the local schools. This party was common knowledge, as was the knowledge that there would be booze served to the under-age grduates. After prom, they were put in 2 busses and bussed to the complex the parents had rented for the party - well on the way there, the busses were stopped at a roadblock because several parents had called the cops and tipped them off that the busses and limo's had alcohol on board. More than 1500 bottles of booze were confiscated from the storage bins overhead, and in area under the bus, and trunks of the limos. Another bus was also stopped going to another party and more than 500 containers of alcohol taken from that one.
The students were outraged - they said the cops "ruined" their prom, parents are up in arms saying that they no longer "respect" the police because they (the parents) were "providing a SAFE place for the kids to drink, as they will drink anyway, and the cops had no right to confiscate the booze."
Personally my opinion on this is this: the parents and kids were KNOWINGLY breakign the law. Are the police supposed to turn a blind eye because it was "prom night" and chose that night to allow under-age drinking to go on when they know it will be occuring?
Case in point - some of the parents said the cops "Had better things to do than harass teens who just want to celebrate graduation. They shouldn't consider preventing the teens from having fun in a safe environment as part of their job"
I bet you dollars to dimes, if ANYTHING had happened to the kids at the parties in question and the parents found out the cops knew about the booze and did nothing they would have accused the cops of not doing their jobs!!!
One father is trying to sue because he gave his son more than $200 worth of booze and it got confiscated.
What kind of a message are parents sending to their kids when they say they "lost respect" for police that were doing their jobs? When they knowingly break the law but expect the law to look the other way? What's next? Pot parties and prostitute parties for the grads?
The students were outraged - they said the cops "ruined" their prom, parents are up in arms saying that they no longer "respect" the police because they (the parents) were "providing a SAFE place for the kids to drink, as they will drink anyway, and the cops had no right to confiscate the booze."
Personally my opinion on this is this: the parents and kids were KNOWINGLY breakign the law. Are the police supposed to turn a blind eye because it was "prom night" and chose that night to allow under-age drinking to go on when they know it will be occuring?
Case in point - some of the parents said the cops "Had better things to do than harass teens who just want to celebrate graduation. They shouldn't consider preventing the teens from having fun in a safe environment as part of their job"
I bet you dollars to dimes, if ANYTHING had happened to the kids at the parties in question and the parents found out the cops knew about the booze and did nothing they would have accused the cops of not doing their jobs!!!
One father is trying to sue because he gave his son more than $200 worth of booze and it got confiscated.
What kind of a message are parents sending to their kids when they say they "lost respect" for police that were doing their jobs? When they knowingly break the law but expect the law to look the other way? What's next? Pot parties and prostitute parties for the grads?
Parents have just totally lost their minds.