Related: Friday Night Festivities
Gees, they are worse than "terrorists."
"N. Andover party leads to parents’ arrest" by Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | April 27, 2010
NORTH ANDOVER — When North Andover police arrived Friday night at the Smits home, an expansive two-story perched on the edge of a wooded valley, they found a familiar scene.
Dozens of cars were choking Blue Ridge Road and empty beer cans were jammed under the rear of one vehicle. A teenager was wandering along the Smitses’ immaculate lawn, his breath carrying a strong odor of alcohol. He told the officers he had been drinking, according to court records.
When the officers walked to the backyard, they saw several youths sprint into the woods, apparently fleeing after spotting the officers, and in the basement, there were dozens of teens, some intoxicated, a police report stated. Beer cans covered a pool table.
Police have broken up three underage drinking parties across town since April 3, a trend that worries authorities as prom season approaches. In two of the parties, including this one, parents were present....
Ronald and Susan Smits, both 49, were arrested and charged with keeping a noisy and disorderly house and contributing to the delinquency of a child....
According to the report, Ronald Smits answered his door soon after police arrived and told them that he and his wife were allowing their 18-year-old daughter to have a house party with her friends. Police replied that they had seen intoxicated minors and that the situation was “serious.’’
Robert Solomon, attorney for the Smits, said that Ronald Smits is a 20-year veteran of the Dutch Air Force, holding a “very prestigious position,’’ and that Susan Smits is a nine-year veteran of the US Air Force. They have a son in a college ROTC program. Their daughter is a student at North Andover High School, Solomon said....
Wanna beer?
Wooooooooooh!
"Parents plead not guilty after teen party; Say they were unaware alcohol being consumed" by Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | April 28, 2010
LAWRENCE — Two North Andover parents are facing more than two years in jail and fines for allegedly hosting an underage drinking party Friday for their daughter and as many as 40 of her friends, a gathering that ended when police were called to the neighborhood and observed a teen staggering on the lawn and intoxicated youths crowded into the basement.
How does TAKING a KID'S PARENT AWAY HELP?
Ronald and Susan Smits, both 49, were arraigned yesterday morning in Lawrence District Court with violating the state’s Social Host Responsibility Law, which stipulates that anyone who owns or controls a property can be charged if a minor is drinking there, even if the person does not provide the alcohol....
Interesting that the SMITS got SPECIAL TREATMENT! Related:
"Teen sentenced for party tied to a suicide
An Andover teenager charged with providing alcohol to minors last year at a party connected to the suicide of a 16-year-old Wellesley girl has been sentenced to probation, according to the Essex district attorney’s office. Zachary Zimmerman, 19, pleaded guilty was sentenced Monday to 18 months’ probation by Judge Anthony Sullivan in Lawrence District Court, said Steve O’Connell, a spokesman for the DA’s office. Elizabeth Mun, a 16-year-old from Wellesley, was a student with Zimmerman at Concord Academy. She committed suicide after a party at Zimmerman’s home last year."
Just wondering why the MOM was NOT CHARGED!!!!
Related: Mun Murder Cover-Up Complete
Also see: Friday Night Football Killed Teen Girl
HOW COME YOU KIDS and PARENTS NEVER LEARN?
I suggest we RETURN to PROHIBITION!
If it is good enough for weed it is good enough for booze.
Back to the Smits:
Neighbor Tanya Gould, a longtime friend of the Smits who picked them up from the North Andover police station following their arrests, said that they were simply trying to provide a safe atmosphere for their 18-year-old daughter and her friends and that alcohol consumption by teens is nothing new....
Nah, I'd rather they drink way out in the woods.
Police in North Andover have broken up three underage drinking parties in the past month.
At least they are earning their money.
At two of the parties, parents were present. With the prom season around the corner, local authorities are stepping up their efforts to combat teen drinking.
The social host law was enacted in 2000, four years after the death of Gregory Smith, 18, of Marshfield. He left a graduation party in Cohasset, slammed his car into a telephone pole, and died. His blood alcohol level was .19, more than twice the legal limit. Cohasset businessman John Lennon, who hosted that party, was acquitted of providing alcohol to a minor.
Once again, the legislature would have been better of doing nothing.
Want an agenda pushed through into law?
Come to Massachusetts where we overreact to everything.
According to statistics from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, approximately 5,000 youths under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking, including about 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes.
Then BAN BOOZE!!!
An annual survey indicated that about three out of four high school seniors, two out of three sophomores, and two out of five eighth-graders have consumed alcohol.
And it is a LEGAL PRODUCT!!!
The institute also found that drinking at an early age puts a person at risk of developing alcohol dependency in adulthood.
And torturing animals leads to mass murder -- and the torturing of humans.
Ralph Hingson, director of the institute’s Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, said in a telephone interview yesterday: “The notion that providing alcohol at home creates a safe drinking environment is not true. It behooves parents to try to do everything they can to delay the onset of drinking for young people.
So NO ALCOHOL in the HOUSE at ALL!!!!
I can already hear the booze lobby wining.
“Study after study has shown that the earlier a person drinks, the more likely they will develop a dependency. Some parents say, ‘Well, if only we can teach our children to drink like they do in Europe, they don’t have a problem over there.’ But a greater proportion of 15- to 16-year-olds drink to intoxication over there than in the US, and the morbidity rate linked to alcohol consumption is higher in Europe than anywhere in the world.’’
Don't need to convince me.
Prohibit it!
Richard Campbell, a lawyer who often visits schools on the North Shore with Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett to talk about the dangers of alcohol consumption, said in a telephone interview, “Parents need to understand that when they allow a youth in their dominion to consume alcohol, they are opening themselves up to wide liability.’’ He said some parents have been sued for millions of dollars for supplying alcohol to teenagers who are later involved in drunken driving crashes.
Blodgett said that he and Campbell have conducted about 20 presentations in Essex County “to give the facts and to debunk some myths that still continue to fly around.’’
“I know that some people are defiant about the law,’’ he said, “and I say to them, ‘Look, if you have a problem, talk with your legislator.’ ’’
Blodgett said that since he became district attorney, there have been scores of cases involving allegations of sexual assault at underage drinking parties.
Yeah, NOTHING GOOD ever seems to happen when BOOZE is involved.
Especially if you go to a SPORTS BAR!!!
Gee, I can see where the kids get the 'tude these days.
Farging adult hypocrites!
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Except for the good ones.
Good night, readers. I've got a buzz I need to sleep off.
