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Root beer keg party doesn't amuse high school officials
They threw to the party [YouTube] after their pals were kicked out of sports because of another bust. "We didn't know it would work well enough to make the cops show up," says a kegger planner. (Wausau Daily Herald)
March 24, 2008 | Permalink
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Smart idea by these kids, the laws against alcohol are out of control nowadays.
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | Mar 24, 2008 9:16:32 AM
Gee, 2 stories about complete morons in a row out of Wisconsin.....more reasons to never even drive through that state. Yeah, what a great idea....first lets teach kids to pollute lakes by sinking a big SUV to "raise money", then lets teach them that police breaking up keggers by underage kids is a joke. Sometimes I think that I may be arrogant thinking I am smarter and better than other people.....then I read this crap and it justifies my thoughts completely.
Posted by: jj | Mar 24, 2008 9:21:47 AM
oh, I dunno about that jj... I rather agree with Swarthy- look how ridiculous.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 24, 2008 9:23:53 AM
My problem isn't with the police checking the party. They received complaints and they followed up. That's what they do. Nor is it with the kids having a fake kegger. They pushed the boundries. That's what they do.
My problem is with the school thinking they can have their hands in every aspect of kids lives. That is what parents are for, not schools. If the parents think the kids should be left out of sports as punishment, that is their call not the school's.
Posted by: beavis | Mar 24, 2008 9:35:00 AM
I agree with swarthy...oh, wait, there's that bad taste again.
When I was underage, I worked at a restaurant that served alcohol. There were a lot of restictions. I couldn't go into management because if I was the highest-ranking person there at the time, then it was seen as "me" selling the alcohal. But, when I waited tables, I had to have someone else take out the alcohal, because I was "selling" it. When I bussed the tables, I had to leave it there, because I was "handling" achohol. But, when I was washing dishes, I could pour it out. Go Figure.
I'm am ok with underage drinking under parental supervision.
Posted by: random white guy | Mar 24, 2008 9:36:16 AM
Good for those kids for dealing with something in a positive, non-destructive way. They think the school administration was being overbearing and I agree.
No harm, no foul. Here's to more root beer keg parties, cheers.
Posted by: JB | Mar 24, 2008 9:42:49 AM
How about school officials confine themselves to controlling kids when they are in school, and leave parents to do the rest?
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | Mar 24, 2008 9:46:11 AM
yeah, I remember the crazy long distant hazy days of the early and mid nineties where 8-3 , M-F, what happened on School Grounds was dealt wit by School Officials. The rest of the time we had a crazy little thing called Parental Supervision/Responsibility. If the schools want to punish these kids, than they should pay for them to. That would be my position as one of their parents. And as much as I hate dragging "lawsuit" into it, you better believe I'd lawyer the heck up on those school a'holes.
Pay for my kid or stfu.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 24, 2008 9:55:56 AM
Wanna bet that a ban on rootbeer keggers is added to the school handbook by next fall?
Posted by: Phranqlin | Mar 24, 2008 10:31:45 AM
I agree with both Swarthy, beavis, and sometimesilie. It's not even that administrators are doing such a hot job running their schools, so why would they think they would do any better job at parenting the children outside of school?
My only problem with this creative solution is that the tastiest root beer usually doesn't come in kegs. It's really hard to find a good root beer with a balanced bouquet.
Posted by: outofsalt | Mar 24, 2008 10:36:23 AM
Is there anything that amumses high school officials? Motivational speakers that sprinkle in bits of comedy perhaps?
Posted by: The_Overdog | Mar 24, 2008 10:43:23 AM
That's just funny. I would love to have done that to the tightwads in my school district when I was in school!
Posted by: twerp | Mar 24, 2008 10:48:12 AM
jj, loosen up, its all in fun, the kids did nothing wrong, its that simple.
Posted by: Jim | Mar 24, 2008 10:58:19 AM
What a great video. A big EFF U to "the Man". Civil disobedience at its best, IMHO. All those kids blowing zero on the breathalyzer is too funny.
Posted by: convexhull | Mar 24, 2008 11:04:07 AM
BTW, if I had thought of doing somthing like that when I was in school, my parents were so cool, they would've bought the root beer.
Posted by: twerp | Mar 24, 2008 11:50:22 AM
Is Kronnenwetter than Wausau?
Maybe maybe not butt, the kids DO have a great sense of humor.
The school gestapo does NOT.
Posted by: A.V. | Mar 24, 2008 12:01:21 PM
Good for these kids and good for their mom! If young adults can join the military and go to war at age 17 (You can join at 17 if you are out of high school and score high enough on their test), then they ought to be able to drink as well. I think that there would be less of a problem with drinking and driving also if it the drinking age was younger than the driving age, as it is in Europe. Our kids shouldn't find out the hard way (some must learn it this way) that they are uncoordinated after drinking in a motor vehicle. Just my 2 cents...
Posted by: Uh Yeah... | Mar 24, 2008 12:23:01 PM
"I think that there would be less of a problem with drinking and driving also if it the drinking age was younger than the driving age, as it is in Europe."
I would like to add to this comment that MOST of Europe has excellent public transportation whereas, MOST of the US does not. Therefore, there is more drunk driving in the US than in Europe because there are more car owners/drivers in the US.
Posted by: twerp | Mar 24, 2008 12:31:12 PM
Also in most of Europe, you cannot get a drivers license until the age of 18.
Posted by: twerp | Mar 24, 2008 12:32:09 PM
Also in most of Europe, you have to take a Real Driving Test and prove you have the skills.
Posted by: Lambiepie | Mar 24, 2008 12:56:04 PM
I didn't even know you could get a keg of rootbeer. Prtty clever if you ask me and the school should have no say what goes on after school is done with. When I was 16 a high school assitance coach drove a bunch of us home from a party drunk. We could have walked but it was around 3am and he wanted to make sure we got home safely. I'm sure he got wind of the party from someone at school but thae party was on a Friday night and come Monday at school nothing was even mentioned of it.
Yes, I had to deal with my mother when I got home cause she was up waiting for me but she was doing her job as a parent. I get to say this for a third time.
I am so glad I was a teenager in the 80's.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | Mar 24, 2008 12:57:09 PM
I'm with Lambiepie! An exchange student from Germany used to live with me and we kept in touch through the years. She had to take her drivers test 3 times over there before she got a passing grade....whereas here in the US, she only had to take it once! Mom and Dad let her drive our car around to practice. She was giddy about that!
Posted by: twerp | Mar 24, 2008 1:08:36 PM
I am not sure about this, but I think you can drive mopeds and scooters in Germany at the age of 16. (At least my cousins did)
Posted by: lawdog | Mar 24, 2008 1:19:18 PM
Look, if you're going to be a partier, (and kids, you definitely should be), quit the sports team, stop going to school functions, and join the rest of the human race.
Posted by: anonymouse | Mar 24, 2008 1:52:00 PM
There was no alcohol involved.
There was no law broken.
Do the police break up every party at which teenagers attend?
Another example of anal police over-reaction
and the criminalization of childhood innocence.
Posted by: Charles Brobst | Mar 24, 2008 1:56:52 PM
It's called a "noise complaint". The cops get a call from some old fart, neighbor, and they show up sometime after 10pm. They cannot enter the house, or the backyard unless you let them. Just tell the piggy to fck off, and they can, if they want, come back with a decibel meter to see if you are breaking the law. Post a few partiers in the front of the house to see if they come back. If they do, bring everyone inside and keep the stereo at a reasonable volume. You'll be below the decibel count.
it's called "partying 101", and I'm taking my classes to your neighborhood soon.
Posted by: anonymouse | Mar 24, 2008 2:11:44 PM
lawdog, in Alabama you're allowed to drive mopeds/scooters/motorcycles at the age of 15 without a guardian--14 if you have a guardian on board.
The exchange student that lived with me couldn't drive a CAR legally in Germany until she was 18. I didn't say anything about mopeds/scooters.
Posted by: twerp | Mar 24, 2008 2:12:16 PM
so let me guess this was meant to amuse the HS officials?
Posted by: AngrySockMonkey | Mar 24, 2008 2:23:36 PM
so let me guess this was meant to amuse the HS officials?
Posted by: AngrySockMonkey | Mar 24, 2008 2:23:57 PM
TAG
Henry Weinhard has a great rootbeer you can by in a keg. As well as a tasty cream soda.
Posted by: Yucca | Mar 24, 2008 3:08:07 PM
The school officals have no buisness involving themselves in non school functions. Had the kids been drinking at a school function, different story. The cops were doing what cops do, fu*k with people. It reminds me of the best kind of protest, organized, non-violent civil disobediance. Kinda sad though, that we can vote, smoke and DIE for our country but can't drink until some arbitrary age.
Posted by: Antagonist | Mar 24, 2008 3:11:03 PM
Sprecher also makes a very good root beer, and it does come in a keg. My regular watering hole has it on tap.
Posted by: lawdog | Mar 24, 2008 3:53:25 PM
I got carded and denied wayback when I was 20 for trying to buy a large single bottle of IBC. Good times, good times.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 24, 2008 5:56:33 PM
JUST A BIT OF FUN FOR SURE
Posted by: ULTRA | Mar 25, 2008 11:49:58 AM
Ex-convict from Abe Lincoln's land
At cooking, he would try his hand
One family imperiled,
One impressed Emeril
Here's one dish that really goes BAM!
Posted by: John Silver | Mar 25, 2008 11:58:19 AM
TO: TAG
" am so glad I was a teenager in the 80's."
Teenage years are as follows: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19.
80's are octogenarian years.
Posted by: A.V. | Mar 26, 2008 10:39:31 AM
This story made http://detentionslip.org !!
Posted by: sweetchuckd | Mar 29, 2008 1:09:50 PM
Now wisconsinites are FIBS...
Posted by: Mr. Illinois | Mar 30, 2008 4:24:50 PM
