Teenager Proves Point

Cops bust 'root beer kegger' Teenagers were suspended from sports for pictures of them drinking from red cups, so one teenager staged a keg party at his home, a keg of root beer. They had fun until the police raided the party. Even once the police confirmed it was root beer they continued to test and harass the kids. Here is the quote of the officer from the story; “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 officials and police officers are only human and it is good that the kids protested peacefully. What is funny is that the teenagers and officers both had the same problem. The teenagers thought the red cup pictures were unfair. True they do not represent proof, but the real question is whether the teenagers were drinking in the pictures, which it appears they were. The police quickly realized it was root bear, but continued to treat it otherwise. Both failed to go past rules and make a judgment call. Rules will only take you so far. Otherwise we would only need the Old Testament.