My brush with the law

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Well on Friday night, I sat in the back seat of a cop car for the first time. It happened like this.

I was over at a friend's house and people were having beer (I'm 18, by the way) so naturally I had one beer too. After I drank this beer, I felt like going outside and having a cigarette, so I went out and sat on a bench in the park that is next to my friend's house and smoked a cigarette. It was about 10:30 by now, and I didn't know that the park was closed. Upon finishing my cigarette I saw a flashlight shining down the path, and realized it was a cop. I just continued to sit on the bench figuring nothing would be wrong and he was just checking the park.

The cop walked up to me and asked me what I was doing in the park, and I replied that I was just having a cigarette on the bench. He must have smelled beer on my breath so he asked me if I had been drinking. I told him the truth, that I had drank a beer. I figured it wouldn't be a problem, and he'd just let me off since I obviously wasn't any harm to anybody sitting on a bench, totally sober, having a cigarette like normal people do. But instead he took me back to his car and breathalized me, I came up at a whopping .02. Then he proceeded to write me up a citation for underage drinking and call my parents to pick me up.

Yeah, so needless to say, my summer is pretty much ruined because of this until I leave for college.
 
Well my car was in the parking lot because my friend's driveway was full, and he said he wasn't allowed to let me get in my car and drive. If my car hadn't been there, my parents wouldn't have had to even get involved.
 
Nah, the parking lot was open, it always is, it's just a small park. Hence the reason I had no idea that the park was closed
 
The cop did nothing wrong. In fact, he acted they way he should have. Drinking is a huge problem in America right now, and somehting needs to be done about it. I'm sure your aware of my past behavior, and lifestyle, so maybe you can understand my current view of underaged drinking, and why you're not completely innocent.

I bet your parents are worried sick. So, I suggest you go to them, if you haven't yet, a talk honestly about your drinking. Reassure them that you wont go off to college, and end up one of those kids who drink themselves to death. I know your an adult now, but you're still just a kid. Especially in the eyes of your parents.
 
He had one friggin' drink. A drinking age of 21 is absolutely ridiculous. He's not innocent, but if it weren't for completely inane drinking laws, he would be. And he should be.

He can drive to Canada and drink until he explodes, but he can't have one drop of alcohol in the great USA.
 
Well, I guess your parents must be pretty strict. It was just one beer. My parents would give me that much.
 
Right. Because when he turns 21 a magical transformation occurs and he can suddenly drink responsibly. Wait... he already did. Never mind.
 
The amount of alchohol he drank is irrelevent. He admitted to a police officer of doing something illegal. That indicates to the officer, A. He has a severe drinking problem, and his parrests ought to know about it, or B. He has absolutely no respect for the law, and needs to learn to respect the law.

Again, I could honestly say that having one drink, and stopping, is OK. Maybe, even healthy, but not from the cops point of view. He sees a kid so brazen to admit a wrong doing, that he needs to teach him a lesson of respecting the laws of the land. Again, I don't see any problem with that.
 
milefile
Right. Because when he turns 21 a magical transformation occurs and he can suddenly drink responsibly. Wait... he already did. Never mind.
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Sorry, I don't think 18 year=olds are completely responsible. No, no magical transformation, but it does happen gradually. There has to be some age limit set in place.

It's not like he's going to jail, over this. His parents were alerted. He got a ticket. If he is responsable as you make him out to be, he shouldn't be in any trouble, then. Just pay the fine, and move on.
 
If you know you were breaking the law, then you have no room to complain when you get caught for it, regardless of what you feel about the law. 👎

You want it changed, write someone who cares, don't go after the cop who is doing his job. Your attitude about it though seems to show that you think breaking the law is better then doing something to get the law changed. "Oh, a whooping .02!" Hey, guess what here chuckles, .000000000001 is still illegal, just the same as .02.
 
The cop did what he had to do. What was he supposed to say, "you're underage but you look harmless so i'll let you break the law"?
 
Solid Lifters
The amount of alchohol he drank is irrelevent. He admitted to a police officer of doing something illegal. That indicates to the officer, A. He has a severe drinking problem, and his parrests ought to know about it, or B. He has absolutely no respect for the law, and needs to learn to respect the law.

Again, I could honestly say that having one drink, and stopping, is OK. Maybe, even healthy, but not from the cops point of view. He sees a kid so brazen to admit a wrong doing, that he needs to teach him a lesson of respecting the laws of the land. Again, I don't see any problem with that.
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So basically you're saying that my "severe drinking problem" would be less severe if I had lied to the cop about having the one beer which he obviously smelled on my breath.

Would it be the same thing if you, say, got pulled over for speeding? Are you trying to say that somebody who gets pulled over for speeding, and then admits to the officer that he/she is indeed speeding has a "severe speeding problem"

Just because you had problems with alcohol in the past doesn't mean that every 18 year old kid who wants to enjoy a beer is going to grow up to have the same problems as you.
 
Solid Lifters
The amount of alchohol he drank is irrelevent. He admitted to a police officer of doing something illegal. That indicates to the officer, A. He has a severe drinking problem, and his parrests ought to know about it, or B. He has absolutely no respect for the law, and needs to learn to respect the law.

Again, I could honestly say that having one drink, and stopping, is OK. Maybe, even healthy, but not from the cops point of view. He sees a kid so brazen to admit a wrong doing, that he needs to teach him a lesson of respecting the laws of the land. Again, I don't see any problem with that.
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what kind of idiot police officers are these that think like this??????????? My god! So solid lifters your saying he should have lied and risked even worse consequences???? WTF???? allways tell the truth to the COPS!!!! Dude, what happend to you sucks. but, you did the right thing. It sucks your parent's were involved to. It's ridiculous that i can go over seas and DIE for this country, yet i had to wait 4 F'ing years after i signed up to Legally drink a beer!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


so according to the popular method of thinking on this subject that solid lifters illustrates, then legal age to join the military should also be 21, or higher. Think about that.
 
icemanshooter23
The cop did what he had to do. What was he supposed to say, "you're underage but you look harmless so i'll let you break the law"?
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Ever been on a college campus?

The359
If you know you were breaking the law, then you have no room to complain when you get caught for it, regardless of what you feel about the law.
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Agree. It seems that there's a general consensus here than a drinking age of 21 is stupid but until it changes it's still the law, stupid or not. If the cop did everything by the book then fine - you know there are some cops who would've let you go in that situation - but the only person you ought to blame is yourself.

By the way, drinking and smoking? Come on. :rolleyes:
 
See, that's what's wrong with your mentality there, Sublime. You can't even comprehend the possiblity of NOT drinking until you're 21 (at least out in public). All you see is "Well I'm going to drink anyway, but still be honest with the cop". That doesn't change the fact that you were rbeaking the law, that doesn't change the fact that you got busted for it.

If you don't want to have run ins with the cops, if you don't want to end up in the back of a police car, then, *DUH*, don't blatantly break the law. :dunce:
 
SublimeDood10
So basically you're saying that my "severe drinking problem" would be less severe if I had lied to the cop about having the one beer which he obviously smelled on my breath.

Would it be the same thing if you, say, got pulled over for speeding? Are you trying to say that somebody who gets pulled over for speeding, and then admits to the officer that he/she is indeed speeding has a "severe speeding problem"

Just because you had problems with alcohol in the past doesn't mean that every 18 year old kid who wants to enjoy a beer is going to grow up to have the same problems as you.
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exactly!!! since when is 1 beer a sever drinking problem?! i like the speeding analogy. good one.
 
First off, I wasn't drinking in public, I had finished my beer and decided to go out and relax with a cigarette. The359, you act like I'm not even aware that I broke the law. I know what I did is illegal, and I did pay the price for it.
 
*sigh*

Geniuses, he wasnt trying to tell him to lie to the cop, nor was he trying to call him an alcoholic. He was trying to say, rightfully so, that Sublime WAS blatantly ignoring the law.
 
SublimeDood10
First off, I wasn't drinking in public, I had finished my beer and decided to go out and relax with a cigarette. The359, you act like I'm not even aware that I broke the law. I know what I did is illegal, and I did pay the price for it.
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Two words: PUBLIC INTOXICATION.

Two more words: UNDERAGE DRINKING.

If you had stayed inside, the likelihood of being caught would greatly diminish, but instead you decided to go outside after drinking a beer, thus breaking a second law.

And you may be away of what you did, but it's your attitude that is crap, because you're obviously just going to do it again, and when you get caught again, you'll find reason to complain yet again.
 
Intoxication? How the **** am I intoxicated off of one beer? If I was at the magic age of 21, my blood alcohol level would have been below the legal limit to drive a car, so how was I intoxicated?
 
SublimeDood10
So basically you're saying that my "severe drinking problem" would be less severe if I had lied to the cop about having the one beer which he obviously smelled on my breath.
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No, I think he knew you had been drinking, so you were busted regardless. Oh, and I never said you had a severe drinking problem.

Would it be the same thing if you, say, got pulled over for speeding? Are you trying to say that somebody who gets pulled over for speeding, and then admits to the officer that he/she is indeed speeding has a "severe speeding problem"
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Again, I never said you had a severe drinking problem, so this analogy is pointless.

Just because you had problems with alcohol in the past doesn't mean that every 18 year old kid who wants to enjoy a beer is going to grow up to have the same problems as you.
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You're correct, but that doesn't derail the fact that you might have a problem with alcohol. Is the cop supposed to know if you have a problem with alcohol, or not? No, but he does think you might have a problem. That is why your parents were notified. Face it, you are not old enough to drink yet, so don't do it.
 
You're 18, which means the legal limit is 0.0, which means you're OVER the legal limit, and intoxicated! :dunce:
 
is that .02 and higher or just higher (not including) .02?

I'm not going to give you advice or tell you not to drink.
I'm going to leave my comments to, That sucks 👎
 
What The359 meant by Public Intoxication, is
1. If you were drinking around a bunch of friends, they would be would pointed out as the public since the public is made up of a citizens, hence they are.

2. The Intoxication means you now were intoxicated by beer. Beer Is beer, and you were intoxicated with it even if you had one beer.

You drank under drinking age, were busted for it, and of course broke the law. But I see you have admitted you knew you'd pay the price, if you were caught. So I give you respect for knowing the consequences.
(Sry, If I sounded like an adult. My uncle caught me drinking one of his beers, and actually called the cops on me. He had me sit in juvenile hall for 24 hours, and I haven't touched or gone near a beer since. I'm 24, so I understand what I did was wrong. Note*I was 16 at the time.


EDIT: Looks like a friend of mine got on my laptop last night. I am NOT 24, nor did I ever do that. It seems Cough***Micheal***Cough was trying to say that I did that. So to clear it up, That happened to Micheal, my friend. SO very sry bout that. I have never drank before.
 

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