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Uncle Ben 
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Posted on: May 04 2004,7:33 am |
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Austin teen walks into police station, says he's too drunk to walk
Publishing date: 05-03-2004 2:24 PM
(Austin-AP) -- Proof that too much alcohol impairs your judgment.
A 16-year-old Austin boy has been cited for underage drinking after walking into the police station early yesterday and asking officers for a ride home.
The boy claimed he was too drunk to walk.
Officers say the boy's blood-alcohol level was 0.185 percent -- almost twice the legal limit for driving in Minnesota.
Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Huh?! What was possibly wrong with his judgement. He was sick...he knew it. Was he supposed to crawl across the street and get killed? What's the message here...a ticket is worth risking ones life over? 
It's good judgment to risk your life to avoid the police? He did the right thing. He removed himself from harm..what we as a society wants him to do. And, he's ridiculed for it? Huh...what?
What's wrong with this area?
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LisaMarie
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Posted on: May 04 2004,8:27 am |
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Maybe they point they're trying to get across is that a 16-year-old boy had no business drinking in the first place!!
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Uncle Ben
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Posted on: May 04 2004,12:03 pm |
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If that's the point, it's even worse. What's wrong with people in this area? I think they were just trying to be funny, but it came out stupid.
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LisaMarie
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Posted on: May 04 2004,12:25 pm |
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So if a 14-year-old stole a car, then turned it in to the police because he realized he can't drive, he shouldn't be punished for stealing the car in the first place because he did the right thing by not driving it? You've got some serious perception issues, my friend.
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Uncle Ben
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Posted on: May 04 2004,8:11 pm |
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Yes, we do, and that statement proves it. That analogy wasn't even close and proves to me you don't even comprehend the story. Nevermind, I was hoping someine else would take interest in this thread.
Whoosh! Completely over your head.
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Clovis
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Posted on: May 04 2004,8:41 pm |
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While I applaud this 16-year-old for getting himself out of what could have been a bad situation, and tend to think that the US makes the underage drinking situation worse by having such a high drinking age (i.e., kids grow up being told "NO" to alcohol, and so what do they want to do? Right. Satisfy their curiosity about it, drink stupidly, and get in trouble... anyway.)... it's still a law on the books that you can't drink until you're 21.
So if you show up at a police station - VISIBLY intoxicated and with documentation of being on the underage side of 21 - then, sorry, in the United States, you've violated the law. And that law, at least, won't change any time soon in a predominantly conservative/Protestant nation.
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LisaMarie
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Posted on: May 05 2004,7:23 am |
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So give us a better analogy Uncle Ben. Enlighten us with your pearls of wisdom, won't you?
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Posted on: May 05 2004,8:43 am |
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It must be the weather. The police and ambulance were dispatched early last night(about 8pm?) to College street for a juvenille female passed out in the road. They took her up to the hospital by ambulance and I think the ambulance driver said she blew a .20, I know the cop said she was cited for illegal consumption.
She's lucky someone saw her and called the police otherwise she might have been hit by a car.
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Uncle Ben
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Posted on: May 05 2004,11:48 am |
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In Europe kids are brought up with alcohol and so rarely drink to get sick drunk, like American kids do. American kids treat it like huffing paint or something because of the way it's advertised, then withheld from them. Oh well, we'll grow up one day and realize the error of our ways and you can be sure we'll be the last to do so.
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Ole1kanobe
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Posted on: May 05 2004,2:07 pm |
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Actually, ever since the government has taken over raising our kids for us, things have been getting worse and worse.
You can't spank little Johnny because it may affect his self-esteem, what a load of crap! Maybe if we as parents were allowed to instill OUR OWN values into our children this type of thing wouldn't be such a huge problem.
When I was a kid, I drank just because of the fact I was told no and not to do it and I usually did drink until I was completely annihilated.
Was it right to do, no.
Was it smart to do, no.
None of those facts kept me from doing it though.
It is almost as stupid as holding parents responsible for crimes their children commit, but not allowing the parents to ever discipline their child(ren) with anything but a polite verbal request to behave. Seriously, if cops were only allowed to ask you politely to not break the law starting today, not allowed to pull you over, arrest you or shoot at you; how much do you think the crime rate would jump nation wide overnight?
Our government has crept into the very fabric of our lives ever so slowly over the past few decades that it is only now that we can see what is happening. If the government wants to raise our children so damn bad, maybe all of us parents should sue the government for back-due child support. I hear that the going interest rate for back-due support is somewhere in the 20% range.
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