Homewood man reportedly bought alcohol for minor
A Homewood man was cited Sept. 25 for allegedly furnishing alcoholic beverages to a minor.
South Lake Tahoe police officers on Friday conducted a decoy shoulder tap operation in the Emerald Bay Road-Lake Tahoe Boulevard area to see if businesses were selling booze to under age people.
Under the program a minor under the direct supervision of a peace officer will stand outside a liquor or convenience store and ask patrons to buy them alcohol. The minor indicates in some way he or she is underage and cannot purchase the alcohol.
If found guilty, Mark Finlaysn, 38, faces a minimum $1,000 fine and 24 hours of community service. Officials have not provide the business where he works.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
How do they avoid an entrapment claim on that???
And don’t the cops have anything better to do?
How do suggest the law should be enforced?
I don’t think it should be.
18 is plenty old enough to be able to buy a drink. Below that age, it’s up to the parents. Or any business should be able to decide whether it wants to serve any adult or not. I’m sure you’ll disagree. You don’t believe in freedom of association, so. . .
How old were you when YOU had your first drink?
At 18 the brain is not fully developed.
Hmmm. If the brain isn’t fully developed at 18, then what are we doing allowing kids that age to enlist in the military where they might be killed? Why are we allowing them ANY kind of adult decision making responsibilities if their brains are so undeveloped? And why can a 13 year old get birth control and/or an abortion without her parents’ consent if she’s SO far below the age of a fully developed brain?
I wish you lefties could at least try to be somewhat consistent.
It’s a shame that science is an every changing landscape. Maybe if MY scientific truth were presented to me by people claiming their source is a series of unrelated books written directly word for word from a historic minor deity who convinced the gullible and fearful(that would be you) that it was the ALL and the everything.
Going into the military at 18 does not directly affect the development of the brain(unless a bullet, beating or pollution causes it).
Pregnancy is a biological consequence/process that effects society at large. Think about it. Do you really want children raising children?
Personally, I think contraceptives should be in the drinking water, and one should be able to prove their emotional and mental stability to receive the antidote.
If you don’t want government, if you don’t want taxes, if you don’t want people to have any assistance but their own personal resourcefulness why do you want people to be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want so long as you and your money don’t have to deal with the consequences. Your comments indicate a contradictory, confused, fearful and angry mind that parrots the same view over and over rather than think deeply about the consequences of the actions you argue for.
Why do YOU want to punish people for being human?
Nice tap dance.
(Whole lotta words while completely evading my point.)
So is your point that if a parent wants to allow their kid to drink alcohol when they are 7 or 8 then it’s cool?
Or is your point that the figures showing the disproportionate rise in accidents that show up when the drinking age is lowered are irrelevant to your opinion? Or the studies that show a connection between early exposure to alcohol and cognitive, emotional and social dysfunction throughout life and the increase in crime?
Or is your point that if a 13 year old has consensual sex or gets raped or is the victim of incest and becomes pregnant and her parents are not around or unable to absorb the cost then she’s on her own? Maybe she can afford to raise that child on the bloated minimum wage she would earn for her child labor, whilst paying for childcare, health insurance and health care, rent AND putting money away for her retirement when she’s not growing her own food, cooking it, cleaning, attending classes at college and homeschooling…because in your world the gub’mint doesn’t need to provide safety nets.
Sorry Dog…you are the one missing the point. Perhaps if you lived in a vacuum where nothing connects to anything else your ideas would make sense to someone, but I doubt it.
Keep on dancin’.
All your far fetched scenarios don’t explain why you believe the State should make decisions for individuals rather than people accepting responsibility for their own lives.
We don’t need keepers. And we surely don’t need to be entrapped by the people who should be protecting people from real criminals.
These ‘far-fetched scenarios’ are real world occurrences. Why do you hate people?
*LOL*
Wrongula, in what state are abortions allowed for 13 yr. Olds , let alone without their parents involvement? I bet there is no such place and anything you site is known to be a lie. Its probably the witch that made up that pack of lies about aborted fetus tissue that all you teapartiers think is some sort of proven and truthful document. You keep on drinking the flavor aide, and keep on posting these falacies, it keeps reminding us about the ignorance you spew…
ya, lets let 18 yr. Olds buy alcohol and drink, what could possibly go wrong…
“You don’t believe in freedom of association, so. . .”
Deep down you know you are far less intelligent than most people and can’t win a logical argument so you have arguments with imaginary people. That is why you resort to ‘putting words in other peoples mouths’ so regularly.
” If the brain isn’t fully developed at 18″
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HA!
Dog, I do not disagree with you completely, but I would amend your statement that adults should be allowed to make decisions regarding their desire to purchase alcohol. So when is someone an adult. There is considerable scientific research that indicates that human brain and rational thought is not fully developed until 25. So our founding fathers were on to something when they set the age of congress at 25 and the presidency at 35.
So until evidence is presented otherwise on the development of rational thought, I think 21 for buying alcohol is fine.
As far as entrapment, don’t knowingly break the law and you will not be entrapped. You have a weak argument.
Rick
How old were you when you had your first drink?
Nobody seems to want to answer that question.
Should the rules be different for other people than for you? Would YOU have been better off if you’d been arrested for having a drink before you were 21? What kind of decisions did you make before the age of 25?
Is there a little hypocrisy here?
Dogula, the reason people are ignoring the question you keep screeching at us is because it’s not pertinent. The age of the man who chose to purchase the alcohol for the 18 year old is. He is 38. Old enough to know better by any standard. Except yours, apparently. Oh…and I haven’t been ‘dancing around your question.’ I’ve been stomping on your argument.
Dog,
We are a country of laws, if I broke the law at 18 (which I did), and was caught, I would have rightly been subject to the penalties. To argue otherwise is to advocate anarchy. It is really not the fact that someone broke the law, but what form should the punishment take. Jail would be inappropriate, but alcohol and drug counseling would likely be warranted.
Rick
But if someone had broken a marijuana law? What about an immigration law?
You guys keep on ganging up on Dogula so much that she is beginning to look like the more reasonable troll of the bunch!
Still waiting …