Sorry Bill, I was trying to respond to both you and Bob W at once. I've seen the teen beer parties with your parent's permission. Legal liabilities will dazzle your mind, and keeping the drunken teens at home and not driving is a further complication.
I don't have a solution for all of this, just happy to have survived it. Most surprising, restaurants, bars, and liquor stores in my town fail 10% of their controlled buys by selling to an obviously underaged teen with an underaged ID. Despite training and desires, the shops are ineffictive at following the rules. Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:02 PM, William Robb <war...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Sullivan" > Subject: Re: Very OT: Regulations for drinking alcohol > > > Hey Bob, what's the gratuitous shot at us for Prohibition in the '20's?!! > Wow, that's a long time to hold a grudge! > > And yes, we've all done underage drinking and underage drunk. > But until you've raised three teenagers, don't presume you know how. > No matter what you do and what they know, it's a treacherous time. > Each child matures at a different pace. > > And bringing traffic accidents into this discussion is perfectly logical. > 90% of the kids in the USA have access to a car. > For most of them, it's their first experience at freedom. > When that's mixed with alcohol, the results are tragic. > (It's not their skills Bill, it's their recklessness via booze.) > It's a leading cause of death for teens. > > > It's Bill, actually, and no, I'm not implying a grudge. > Saskatoon, just a couple of hours from me has Temperance St. > My point was that this sort of thing doesn't work. > Tried and failed was the point, not where it happened. > Take this for what it's worth, coming from someone who has never raised a > child, but to me, it would seem that it would be better to have your kid > falling down drunk with his friends in the TV room than at a bush party that > he is going to drive home from. > By instilling a prohibition, we force what they are going to do anyway into > the worst possible way of doing it. > > William Robb > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
