ROTFL! Were any swans injured or captured during the raid?
Posted on 03/31/2008 12:52:12 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
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.
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“Nearly 90 breath tests were done, and officers even searched locked rooms for hiding teens.”
Um...once it had been determined that there was no actual beer in the keg, why was this necessary?
“Nearly 90 breath tests were done, and officers even searched locked rooms for hiding teens.”
Wonder where they found probable cause for this little room to room search.
I hate those root beer hangovers. Normally if you just take a shot or two in the morning it’ll get you thru the next day. ;o}
Snicker.
Not just sold to a minor - the root beer was transported across state lines, too...
Vecenie's Distributing Company is pleased to introduce 1919 Classic American Draft Root Beer to the Western Pennsylvania market.
smart move — now the kid can have a real beer party because wouldn’t dare bust that one, too.
“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 bothering kids for no reason is their job, I guess.
Good work by the officers.
It all starts so innocently, but parties such as this one can lead to the stronger stuff...
...like rootbeer floats and birchbeer.
I can guarantee you 2 things:
1) My friends and I would have pulled this kind of stunt
2) At least one moron would have brought booze to our alcohol free “kegger”
They heard people laughing through the door, dontcha know.
I dealt with these kinds of cops in the Army -— constantly trying to nail soldiers for whatever -— they’re pathetic.
God forbid they should get hooked on the really hard stuff, like sarsparilla...
I bet they were eating chips and dip...all are high fat violations
“Nonetheless, we were able to taser two dogs and a parked tricycle, so it wasn't a total loss.”
Thats what you get for hiring cheap robots. It looks like the city has been saving money by hiring and promoting people who take orders not make decisions... Policing is far too complex and important to leave it in the hands of the incompetent.
When police professionals are found, they quickly get out of local government not only because of the opportunity offered in private industry, but to avoid the spineless incompetents that make up their local government.
I’m surprised no one has commented on the moral of the story, public school administrators that over step their power bounds and kick completely innocent kids off of teams.
ROTFL! Were any swans injured or captured during the raid?
Myself and some friends got pulled over with some ICW Rootbeer bottles, with Barney Fife thinking they were open containers. Later that night they were swapped for some Buds.
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