Can a 21 year old in America

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Originally posted by pushpills@Feb 22 2005, 09:50 PM
But nick, if the 21 yr old is supplying the PLACE (their appartment) then yet they can get in trouble. If i'm 21 and at a place where under 21 year olds are drinking, and it aint my place, of course im not getting in trouble (unless im the only 21 yr old there or people tell the cops I bought the beer).

El Wrongo. Sorry bro, but if you are of legal age and are in a situation where underage folks are drinking - unless perhaps said underagers LIVE there and their PARENTS gave them the alcohol - you are fucked under the law.

You see, the law expects you, the legal aged idiot in the situation, to have enough brain power to either stop them from drinking "your beer" (that's how the law sees it), or to completely divorce yourself from the situation. Failure to do so puts you in the driver's seat of "Oh shit, I'm fucked".

The law, realistically speaking, doesn't give a rats ass where the under agers got their booze. You, the "adult" are there and therefore responsible. If they aren't your biological/legal kids then YOU are committing a crime by allowing them to drink.

I'd have been completely safe when I got busted on the beach in Cali, but one of my troopies came up holding a Bud and tried to "help his Corporal out with the Coppers". I'd have walked away with a $50 fine for drinking on the beach, or perhaps just got a warning. But NOOOO! As soon as my troop walked up obviously drunk and holding one of "my" beers the cops had no choice but to cite us all. Cost me a pretty penny to keep my troops out of jail and pay their fines upfront too so they wouldn't have to stand before the 1st Sgt and explain how they were drunk and underage, much less ME standing before the man and explaining how I managed to get almost an entire squad of Marines arrested, LOL...

I HATE the fact that 18yo people can vote, can be enlisted, can be voted into public service ... yet they can't drink??? I even wrote a thesis on this back in my college days.

Yet .... I see daily why 18yos shouldn't drink and maybe they SHOULD be cannon fodder. LOL, I live in an environment where I see fucktards of extreme potential and ZERO motivation to be anything but a no-belt-wearing, attitude talking, wannabe gangstah. And I think to myself .... "Self? Should we just kill them and rid ourselves of the problem?"

I'm digressing, eh? Ok, time to shut up for now.