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Cops bust teens' root-beer kegger
Dozens of high schoolers forced to take breath tests The Associated Press updated 7:26 p.m. ET, Fri., March. 28, 2008 WAUSAU, Wis. - Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands. But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That's because the keg contained root beer. The party was held by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don't always drink alcohol at their parties. It has gained fame on YouTube.com. Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at D.C. Everest High School got suspended from sports because of pictures showing them drinking from red cups. The root-beer kegger was "to kind of make fun of the school," he said. "They assumed there was beer in the cups. We just wanted to have some root beer in red cups and just make it look like a party, but there actually wasn't any alcohol." Zebro purchased a quarter-barrel of 1919 Classic American Draft Root Beer, and by 10 p.m. Saturday, the scene outside his rural Wausau home had all the makings of a teen drinking party — cars, noise and kids. Kronenwetter Police Chief Daniel Joling said an officer was dispatched to the home March 1 on a complaint of cars blocking the road. Juveniles began coming out of the house after the officer used his squad car's loudspeaker to warn that cars would soon be towed, Officer Jason Rasmussen wrote in his report. Nearly 90 breath tests were done, and officers even searched locked rooms for hiding teens. "It was a tremendous waste of time and manpower, but we still had a job to do, and our officers did it," Joling said. "If one kid had come there, even hadn't drank there, but had come there and had been drinking and had left and crashed and burned, then what would the sentiment be? Why didn't the police check everybody out?" School Superintendent Kris Gilmore did not immediately return a message Friday. A classic example of over reacting ( I would think they would have stopped after 20 failed tests and an inspection of the keg) and I would have loved to seen the cops expresions..
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Actually, they were just following protocol on that one. Now if they had arrested everyone at the party and maybe fired a couple tazers off, then yes they would be over reacting.
And believe it or not deaths by drunk drivers are actually a serious problem here in the states. The kid was trying to make a point, and a valid one. But it remains that the majority of partie's involve some form of intoxicant alcohol or otherwise. Just because the host intends a clean party doesn't mean it'll stay that way.
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I have to agree with firestorm on this one. Especially the last sentence.
Still, I would've loved to see the expressions on the police's faces (even though they were simply following protocol) . ![]()
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I got ID'd at a local supermarket buying ginger beer once. It took me a few minutes to convince the woman on the till that it didn't contain any alcohol.
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I've been ID'd trying to buy non-alcoholic wine before. Go figure...
![]() In this case, however, I believe the cops certainly over-reacted. How many times do they perform breathalyzer tests on *everyone* attending a party? 90? That's more than a wee bit of overkill... that's someone hoping that eventually, they find someone dirty so they can justify everything that's gone before. Even the police chief's line... that's a bunch of defensive malarkey. "If one kid had come there, even hadn't drank there, but had come there and had been drinking and had left and crashed and burned, then what would the sentiment be? Why didn't the police check everybody out?" As a taxpayer, I'd be pissed that you wasted a couple of hours of time (90 breathalyzer tests... say, a minute apiece?) and 90 breathalyzer test kits? Depending on the test used, that could run from $50 to nearly $700 in materials... Common sense isn't. Proven, yet again.
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