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A TV news reporter was driven off air by threats on Facebook after she did an expose on underage drinking in Washington, D.C.
Andrew McCarren, who works for CBS affiliate WUSA-TV in the U.S. capital, has said she and her family faced abuse after she ran a series of reports on underage drinking in northwest Washington.
But after one report showed teenagers buying alcohol from a store without being asked for identification, her station's Facebook page was flood with angry messages.
Her teenage children also faced bullying at school and Ms McCarren made the decision to go off air for two of he stories.
She told CBS: 'At first I was frightened and then I became angry. It felt like an orchestrated Facebook and Twitter campaign of hate.
'People put my home address on the internet. There were calls for revenge and retaliation against my family.
'It seems like these suburban, affluent kids have simply never been told "no". They have an inflated sense of entitlement.'
Parents of the children who appeared in the TV reports, some of the held at a party where underage drinking was taking place, also attacked the TV reporter and have threatened to sue the TV network.
One was overheard telling their child in front of police officers 'why didn't you run?' Ms McCarren has since returned to her station's broadcast and said underage drinking was a big problem.
She said she was shocked after police and the Control Board failed to take action on one store identified in the reports, Town Square Market.
One girl stopped outside the store said she was 18 and had been buying alcohol illegally from the shop for two years
Link to the story with an interview of the reporter.
News reporter does some actual investigation into one of the biggest white elephants in America. Yet, she's almost forced to quit and move because of comments from parents and other individuals.
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I can understand the kids being ticked and going after her electronically but one would expect the parents to be on her side... I drank before I was 21 as I would imagine 90% of the people on here did.. but I did it with some fear of getting caught.. I especially had that fear before I turned 18..
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It sad that someone would get caught doing something illegal and heir parents would support tormenting the person who caught them
And for the record I didn't drink until my 21st birhday
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It sad that someone would get caught doing something illegal and heir parents would support tormenting the person who caught them
And for the record I didn't drink until my 21st birhday
I agree that is just a huge snapshot of whats wrong with some parents in todays world. I drank at 18 though because it was still legal at the time in Ohio 3.2 beer. 18-20
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I as I would imagine 90% of the people on here did..
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I drank at 17 ..... I'll admit to it. However, it was a different era then. The drinking age was 18 for 3.2 beer (which was often re-labeled regular beer) IIRC, it was 19 for everything, but I could be wrong. It's been a long time. I do know that they changed the drinking age up a year the year after I turned 18. I knew a lot of really ticked off kids who were a year younger then me.  It vwas a mess carding people, I do remember that ..... and so a lot of people got served who probably shouldn't have just because of confusion.
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I can understand the kids being ticked and going after her electronically but one would expect the parents to be on her side... I drank before I was 21 as I would imagine 90% of the people on here did.. but I did it with some fear of getting caught.. I especially had that fear before I turned 18..
agreed. I simply can't understand parents today. I drank when I was 17 was legal at 18 to drink because being in the military and going to Germany but I never would've expected my parents to support me if I'd been caught at 17.
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I drank at 17.
Truthfully, the drinking age really should be 18. Let's be honest here. Everyone underage drinks in college.
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Started drinking when i was 14......
And I rarely drink anymore. Although I've always loved marijuana much more than alcohol. (And man it pisses me off that I get randomly drug tested. That's the other elephant in the room, I can't smoke pot because I have a job and pay taxes, yet people can make money off the taxes I PAY and do drugs. TALK ABOUT UNFAIR! Not a day goes by that I don't wish I could get high, yet I don't because I like what I do and want to contribute to the country. If I can't smoke, they shouldn't be allowed to smoke either!)
I think the 21 thing is a silly law, but now that i'm 26, I'd rather keep 20 and younger out of the bars.
But that being said, I dunno if 90% of people drink before they're 18 (may be 21), but it's a very known thing. It is that elephant or whatever in the room. A law that is kind of unreasonable to enforce because so many people break it and so many people take it lightly.
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Let's be honest here. Everyone underage drinks in college.
Not going to turn this thread into an argument of who's more moral but I and many of my friends didn't bother dipping into underage drinking. The risk didn't justify any sort of "reward"...
Anyhow, I think it's sad that parents would condone their children breaking this law. I don't care if they think it's legal or not. I agree we need to change the restrictions and advertisements.
I really think alcohol advertisements should go the way of cigarette advertisements. I believe beer should be legal but barely any of the advertisements encourage responsibility. They encourage a "more alcohol=better time" sentiment which is dangerous. Alcohol has it's place but the ads glorify it as the only way to have a good time. Either change the ads or have them go the way of tobacco advertisements.
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The drinking age should be 18. It's a shame that people are such prides that kids can't have fun anymore. Parent sponsored parties were the best ones when I was younger. Low key, everyone stayed the night and it never got out of control.
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The drinking age should be 18. It's a shame that people are such prides that kids can't have fun anymore. Parent sponsored parties were the best ones when I was younger. Low key, everyone stayed the night and it never got out of control.
lol, my parents did that. But they were anything but low key.........
Thank god nobody god into a car accident or caught alcohol poisoning or something. They had this idea in their minds that we were drinking 4 or 5 beers and smoking cigarettes.
We were drinking far more than that and smoking pot...............
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We had parental parents that got out of control but never any booze there... my Dad was an alcoholic before I was born (really he stopped because it was the only way my mom would date him) so we never had any alcohol in the house.... but we had some pretty good parties at our place.
I just never got into drinking when I was younger... I thought it was pretty stupid to get drunk (still do) but I was an athlete and didn't want to do anything that would hurt my body... now that I'm not an athlete any more I will have a drink now and then but do so responsibly...
ok... off my soap box...
I do agree with what others have said though, I've always felt the drinking age should be 18 or 19... if you can join the army you should be allowed to have a drink.
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I grew up in a family of non-drinkers, and started drinking at the ripe old age of 12. Had a drivers license that said I was 18 at the age of 16 and went to the state store in WV to buy my Jack Daniels (drank it straight from the bottle who needed red solo cups back then  ) Drank a 5th of it almost every day for years until I developed a bleeding ulcer, so I switched to a case of beer most days. I joke about drinking all the time on here, but with my old age setting in  and my work schedule I now keep my drinking to 6 to 18 beers twice a week. IMO if you can vote and go to war at the age of 18 then you sure as hell should be able to drink at the same age.
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I guess I was maybe 15 when I started drinking beer and raid my dads liquor cabinet.
I didn't want him to notice any being gone so into a empty Coke bottle I would pour in a little of everything he had...Segrams VO, Beefeater Gin, some kind of vodka, a little rum...whatever, until I had the coke bottle full. Both he and Mom enjoyed their cocktail hour(s) so it wasn't all that hard to do as long as I kept it to my magic concoction and didn't go too heavy with one of them.
Must explain why mixing lqiuors has never been a problem for me as it seems to be for others.
In those days there weren't resealable bottles, so I'd have to seal it up with some foil or wax paper and a rubberband.
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Don't remember when I had my first drink,, probably some of grandpaps homemade wine.. But for sure, I drank beer before I was legal.
If my parents would have found out, I'd have been womped but good. What's with these parents?
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At about 17 my dad told me I could have some of the beer that was in the fridge but that I was not to go out drinking and, for the most part, I obeyed that.. and I really never had any from the fridge. I probably drank 3 or 4 times in high school... then I made up for it in college.  I remember my brothers girlfriend had a HS graduation party at her house and I was a year behind her in HS and I went. Her parents were there, my parents were there.. there was plenty of beer there.. That was one of the times I drank too much in HS and ended up breaking my finger playing football in the yard. Her dad was a HS principal at a different school.. thinking back I could have sued him for all he was worth since he knew how old I was and was allowing this drinking to go on.. but since it was my dad who piled on and broke my finger, I guess I didn't think that would be right. 
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I drank at 17.
Truthfully, the drinking age really should be 18. Let's be honest here. Everyone underage drinks in college.
With all the political activism in colleges I am surprised that there has never been a serious attempt to get the law changed by ballot initiative.
If I remember correctly the federal government strong armed the states into raising the limit by threatening to cut funding for something. Am I confused?
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No, you are correct. I believe it was highway funding.
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No, you are correct. I believe it was highway funding.
Yup,, I think I remember that to be the case..
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I almost wonder if the cost would offset now. Just a thought.
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My personal feeling is that if you are old enough to be a Sergeant in the Army or Marines and get your ass shot off in Iraq.. you are plenty old enough to have a beer while on leave in the United States.
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I think everyone can agree about those in the service being able to drink legally at 18. It's an embarrassment that it's not allowed.
I've always thought though that once you're out of high school - be it through graduating, GED or dropping out you should be able to drink legally.
Your years of being a "minor" are behind you - as long as you're not in school, their is literally no reason why you shouldn't be allowed to face the same situations and choices you can make three years later and the rest of your life. Military, college student, going in to a trade, professional athlete (and that includes all collegiate athletes) or just bumming around as an 18 year old thinking "what am I going to do" - the point is your childhood is behind you and you're moving on in life.
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I think everyone can agree about those in the service being able to drink legally at 18. It's an embarrassment that it's not allowed.
I've always thought though that once you're out of high school - be it through graduating, GED or dropping out you should be able to drink legally.
Your years of being a "minor" are behind you - as long as you're not in school, their is literally no reason why you shouldn't be allowed to face the same situations and choices you can make three years later and the rest of your life. Military, college student, going in to a trade, professional athlete (and that includes all collegiate athletes) or just bumming around as an 18 year old thinking "what am I going to do" - the point is your childhood is behind you and you're moving on in life.
I agree for the most part, but I know 16 year old drop outs with a GED. Not sure I;d be willing to include them.
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No, you are correct. I believe it was highway funding.
That was Reagan and M.A.D.D. and it was a good example of taxation without representation.
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No, you are correct. I believe it was highway funding.
That was Reagan and M.A.D.D. and it was a good example of taxation without representation.
You have to feel for the folks at MADD. I mean,, the only reason that orgainzation exists is because entirely too many kids get killed each year on the highways and back roads from either being drunk or getting hit by a drunk
So I do agree with thier cause.
What I don't like is the "one size fits all' approach of controlling States.
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I agree.
When you get down to it, darn near every issue with social impact should be under state domain.
You want the drinking age set at 18, do it. You want abortion illegal in your state, so be it. There would be enough of each that if drinking was important enough, you could find a place to do it. If you wanted abortion, you could find one if your state didn't allow it.
Who better than the people of the state to decide the laws of the state?? Federal mandates should be far and few between.
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I agree.
When you get down to it, darn near every issue with social impact should be under state domain.
You want the drinking age set at 18, do it. You want abortion illegal in your state, so be it. There would be enough of each that if drinking was important enough, you could find a place to do it. If you wanted abortion, you could find one if your state didn't allow it.
Who better than the people of the state to decide the laws of the state?? Federal mandates should be far and few between.
And Federal assistence to a state (say for infrastructure) should NOT be held hostage because some group (no matter how deserviing) wants a state to things "thier way".
Hell, that's blackmail
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We agree.
The drinking ages were held hostage by the Feds by road money. Tennessee was a 18 state for a long time.
I am surprised Nevada got away with gambling and legal prostitution.
I am still surprised prostitution isn't legal in more places. It's a private transaction that doesn't require any scrutiny by the state.
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We agree.
The drinking ages were held hostage by the Feds by road money. Tennessee was a 18 state for a long time.
I am surprised Nevada got away with gambling and legal prostitution.
I am still surprised prostitution isn't legal in more places. It's a private transaction that doesn't require any scrutiny by the state.
LOL,, I morally object to prostitution, but that aside, I see it as MORE of a public threat when unregulated as it is everywhere except certain counties in Nevada..
I do agree that it's a private transaction however.
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I always wondered why women "have a right to choose what they do with their own bodies" when it comes to abortion, but not prostitution.
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I always wondered why women "have a right to choose what they do with their own bodies" when it comes to abortion, but not prostitution.
Simple,, there is a moral majority out there that wish nothing more than to force thier beliefs on the rest of us.. Like I said, I'm morally against prostitution, but I also realize it's a personal act.
Not really for abortion, but do understand that I'll never be preggers, so I'd rather leave those decisions to those individuals involved..
Freedom of choice ya know..
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I always wondered why women "have a right to choose what they do with their own bodies" when it comes to abortion, but not prostitution.
Interesting...especially since the majority of the lawmakers are male and would probably, or have, used the services of a prostitute.
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I always wondered why women "have a right to choose what they do with their own bodies" when it comes to abortion, but not prostitution.
Interesting...especially since the majority of the lawmakers are male and would probably, or have, used the services of a prostitute.
we know that Jimmy Dimora sure did...LOL
I keep wondering, what right do I have to tell a woman what to do with her body?
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We agree.
The drinking ages were held hostage by the Feds by road money. Tennessee was a 18 state for a long time.
I am surprised Nevada got away with gambling and legal prostitution.
I am still surprised prostitution isn't legal in more places. It's a private transaction that doesn't require any scrutiny by the state.
Because they haven't figured a way to properly collect taxes for the services rendered, otherwise it would be legallized and taxed. 
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We agree.
The drinking ages were held hostage by the Feds by road money. Tennessee was a 18 state for a long time.
I am surprised Nevada got away with gambling and legal prostitution.
I am still surprised prostitution isn't legal in more places. It's a private transaction that doesn't require any scrutiny by the state.
Because they haven't figured a way to properly collect taxes for the services rendered, otherwise it would be legallized and taxed.
Name a profession and someone is doing it under the radar for which they aren't being taxed or collecting tax. 
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Simple,, there is a moral majority out there that wish nothing more than to force thier beliefs on the rest of us..
Actually that goes far beyond the "moralists" that people love to rail against. There are people out there who want to force you to drive a car that gets 40 mpg, there are people out there who want to force you to wear a seatbelt, wear a motorcycle helmet, not spank your kids, only eat whole grain bread, not shop at Walmart, teach 4 year olds about homosexuality, pay for those who refuse to work, pay a worker a minimum wage, and the list goes on.. I'm sure if we dug deep enough, darn near everybody on this board is ok with forcing some of their beliefs on other people through government regulation in the name of the "common good".
As for abortion and prostitution... the argument is that I don't care what a woman does with her body, it's the body inside of her that I'm worried about.. so if you view that as a separate life, then there is a distiniction...
I think prostitution should be legal, I think we would see a dramatic fall in sex crimes if it was... I believe it is illegal because a bunch of prudish women are deathly afraid their husbands would turn to it and husbands speak out against it because they don't want to be viewed by their wives as considering it. In short, the reason it is illegal is marital insecurity...
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yeah, there is never a shortage of folks wanting to tell us how to live our lives and if we don't agree to it readily, they find ways to essentially blackmail us into it.
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