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“Dude, I’m Going To Be So Diabetic in the Morning”
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Police in Wisconsin broke up a kegger last week. A root beer kegger. Wisconsin high school senior Dustin Zebro was irked that some of his friends were kicked off varsity sports teams after school officials spotted Facebook photos of them drinking from red cups. So to show that red plastic ups don’t always mean beer (he’s right, I remember putting mixed drinks in them, too), he threw a root beer kegger in the hopes of triggering more suspensions, then making school officials look silly.
Turns out, the cops were called in on the gag, too. On the one hand, kudos to them for taking it in stride and not overreacting. On the other hand, unless you accept the premise that any gathering of teenagers is probable cause for a search, I’m not sure why the breath tests were in order. Shouldn’t the cop have found actual evidence of alcohol, first? The video doesn’t make clear if the tests were voluntary or coerced. Would’ve been interesting to see what might have happened if one of the kids refused.
Story here.
Dazed and Confused-esque "documentary" here:
Where are the parents?
Other than that one little question, I am speechless.
does anyone find this interesting?
Keaton Meinel is one of the students who made the video. He and friends … taped until an officer made them stop.
why did the cop stop them?
Interesting? Maybe.
Predictable? Yes! Can’t have the “po-po” (insert eye-rolling smilie here) under any citizen scrutiny, can we?
Small town cops, prosecutors and judges often don’t know probable cause from a ham sandwich. No one can afford to appeal so they just run the county as a separate country where the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply.
Even worse, sometimes they do know but they don’t care as long as they can get away with it. After all, they all have at least qualified immunity. Practically, there is no responsibility for their illegal actions.
We did this in highschool as well, though this was still way back in the days of web 1.0, so it had nothing to do with Facebook.
We actually called the cops on ourselves to see what would happen, which turned out to be nothing.
So when do red plastic cups join baggies in being declared illegal someplace?
I’m from Kronenwetter and I went to D.C. Everest (class of ‘98). Kronenwetter is like the safest town ever, and I’m sure the cops (the Kronenwetter Police Department was formed just a few years ago when Kronenwetter was incorporated as a village) had nothing better to do that night, hence the quick arrival of backup. The fact that the cops made the kid stop recording is unfortunate, but there’s definitely not an adversarial relationship between the cops and “civilians” there. The kid probably felt bad for the cop and figured enough was enough.
I’m so proud of those kids…nice work.
Funny how the officer says they were trying to save ‘just one kid’ and then goes on to say it was a waste of time and money. Aww, feeling a little Punk’d, I suppose.
OH MY GOD! THEY WERE DRINKING SODA! DON’T THEY KNOW THAT THERE IS A CHILDHOOD OBESITY CRISIS RIGHT NOW!
Somewhere that is someone’s reaction to reading this. I’m still suprised that no one has brought up the cause of this entire issue. Doesn’t the school’s control stop when the child gets home?
They get around that by suspending students from extracurricular activities, which are considered to be “priviledges”.
In college a bunch of kids I knew did this (didn’t manage to make it there before the campus cops turned up), but instead of rootbeer they used cake.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/education/edlife/facebooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I can’t believe they haven’t banned the name “root beer”. Anything that includes the word “beer” and is marketed to children is child abuse. It’s just like those evil candy cigarettes they used to sell in order to program kids into being mindless nicotine addicts. In this case it will be root beer followed by real beer, finally culminating in a self-destructive obsession with football.
Dave Krueger sounds like a class a idiot.
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