The Energon Pub

News Credits: 3 · by **muswp1** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:43 pm

Ok, I saw this one on MSN andI thought it was pretty funny:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23851011/

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.

My only comment about this is they needed to use a better quality of root beer.

by **Nymph** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:42 pm

ha ha ok... All that to fool the cops???or I should say why do 90 breath tests when there clearly wasn't any alcohol on the premises

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:20 am

Could have been worse. They could have blown up a bunch of lite-brights because they thought they were terrorist bombs.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:41 am

muswp wrote:My only comment about this is they needed to use a better quality of root beer.

No kidding in Wisconsin we drink Sprecher root beer. These kids got what they deserved for drinking an inferior root beer.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:08 am

I still lol out real loud every time I hear that pp in the US have to wait till they are 21 to drink beer :lol:

News Credits: 1 · by **Sherade** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:20 am

Nymph wrote:or I should say why do 90 breath tests when there clearly wasn't any alcohol on the premises

Quotas.
Like those devils known as speeding tickets...

And DM, 21 is the legal age.. :wink:

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:24 am

Dead Metal wrote:I still lol out real loud every time I hear that pp in the US have to wait till they are 21 to drink beer

Yeah, responsibility sucks.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:26 am

Dead Metal wrote:I still lol out real loud every time I hear that pp in the US have to wait till they are 21 to drink beer

Yeah but we can get behind the wheel at 16.

by **Pyrostrata** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:53 am

Dead Metal wrote:I still lol out real loud every time I hear that pp in the US have to wait till they are 21 to drink beer

Americans have not been raised to respect liquor as other nations have. We seem to see it as just some playtime beverage that can do no harm to anyone. Getting trashed seems to be one of those rites of passage for the American high schooler..and it continues with GREAT gusto into the college years.

There is even been talk over the past couple of years of hiking the US drinking age to 25.....has something to do with insurance rates or some nonsense. I doubt anything will come of it, though....A lot of Americans can barely handle their liquor at age 45, so what is changing the legal age gonna matter?

News Credits: 1 · by **Agent 007** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:46 am

omg lol

wow the cops will bust kids for anything these days.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:39 pm

Pyrostrata wrote:Americans have not been raised to respect liquor as other nations have. We seem to see it as just some playtime beverage that can do no harm to anyone.

We do? Then why do we have Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as extensive laws on how much alcohol you can have in your system before you're allowed to do anything?

Pyrostrata wrote:A lot of Americans can barely handle their liquor at age 45, so what is changing the legal age gonna matter?

That's kind of a generalization, don't you think?

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:03 am

Sherade wrote:
Nymph wrote:or I should say why do 90 breath tests when there clearly wasn't any alcohol on the premises

Quotas.
Like those devils known as speeding tickets...

And DM, 21 is the legal age..

While it's 16 for beer and 18 for champagne and the other hard stuff over here.

News Credits: 3 · by **Barricade** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:03 pm

Sherade wrote:
Nymph wrote:or I should say why do 90 breath tests when there clearly wasn't any alcohol on the premises

Quotas.
Like those devils known as speeding tickets...

And DM, 21 is the legal age..

wow sherade you are STILL on here......

all i have to say to this is i bet those cops felt really stupid

News Credits: 150 · by **GetterDragun** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:12 pm

FTW

by **Nymph** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:54 pm

Sherade wrote:
Nymph wrote:or I should say why do 90 breath tests when there clearly wasn't any alcohol on the premises

Quotas.
Like those devils known as speeding tickets...

And DM, 21 is the legal age..

Ahhhh it all makes sense now