Government will pay pizza deliverymen who turn in underage partiers

[Grojlach]

Pizza deliverymen to rat on drinkers
Government will pay those who turn in underage partiers

Posted: May 27, 2004
2:56 p.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

A police department in New Hampshire is paying pizza deliverymen and hotel clerks who give the cops information about underage drinking parties, if the tip leads to an arrest.
Those who tattle on minors or their parents will receive $50 under a new law being enforced in Portsmouth, N.H.
"The message being sent to parents is that it's not safe for them to host a party," Jackie Valley of the Community Diversion Program in Greenland, N.H., told the Portsmouth Herald.
The law makes it a misdemeanor for the owner or occupant at any given address to host a gathering of five or more minors who are consuming alcohol or drugs.
"It's not necessarily just in a home," Sgt. Mike Schwartz, who is in charge of the Juvenile Division of the Portsmouth Police Department, told the paper. "It could be an apartment or even a hotel room."
Under the new program, known as the "Booze Bounty," deliverypeople and hotel employees are encouraged to submit tips anonymously.
"We're going to market this to pizza delivery places and also to hotel clerks," Schwartz said.
The Herald reported many local businesses were in favor of the program.
"My employees have enough contact with these customers to know what's going on," said the manager of a delivery restaurant who wished to remain anonymous. He supports the new program.
"I don't want my drivers to feel like they're junior police officers," he said, "but I'm willing to help."
Schwartz told the paper teens as young as 17 who throw a party could be tried as adults under the new law.

Source: WorldNetDaily

[Gnarf]

That'd, if nothing else, increase the number of really annoying pizza guys...

[Illumina Drathiran'ar]

Not gonna happen. If pizza guys did this, people would just start ordering Chinese.

And I have a serious problem with people who are criminals because they are underage being tried as adults. You can't drink like an adult but they can try you like one? That's just wrong.

[promethius9594]

heh, thats probably the smartest government idea i think i've heard in a LONG time.

[The Hierophant]

Originally posted by promethius9594: heh, thats probably the smartest government idea i think i've heard in a LONG time.

Yeah, but now that the media have wind of it and the scheme is out in the open its effectivness will be shattered, for reasons Illumina has already indicated. Spies and informants lose alot of their effectivness once the spied-on become aware of their presence.

[ 05-30-2004, 08:49 PM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]

[Mack_Attack]

Yes as soon as the pizza guy pulls up. The music is off and everone hides in the back and the person that is least drunk gets the pizza problem solved.

Or just tip your pizza guy 51 dollars problem solved as well.

[Timber Loftis]

Well, I don't like it. I really feel sorry for kids today. They can't drink, can't haze, can't drive drunk, can't have bottle rocket wars and BB gun wars... take away the drugs and the "footloose and fancy free" years are officially just more bland days in a lifetime of boredom. No wonder kids these days skip the goofing off and go right for the hard drugs -- if it's all disallowed, then why not?

Some things can only be learned by experience. If the kids aren't screwing up when they're 16 and 18, they'll do it when they're 21, when it can really hurt their careers.

Oh, and just so you know, the legal limit for someone under 21 in NH is 0.02. And a DUI for an underage is an automatic felony. Now, get this, guy my age gets drunk at a bar and gets caught driving home witha 1.0 BAC -- that's a serious misdemeanor, and I'd have to do a month's alcohol course to avoid a pretty bad conviction. On the other hand, a kid who had his first beer ever gets caught driving home with a .02 BAC (legal for the adult), is on the hook for a FELONY, a crime which will prevent him from going to most colleges, and will follow him forever (no gun ownership, can't vote, etc.).

[ 05-31-2004, 02:36 AM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

[Donut]

Don't they have any real criminals in New Hampshire?

[promethius9594]

actually timber, if the child was under the age of eighteen and is driving drunk that felony will only remain on record until they turn eighteen, at which point it is removed. i guess he shouldnt have drove though... that was stupid.

[johnny]

Sheesh, i'm glad i grew up in a REAL democratic country.