It's been a while since we posted a "Things Underage Drinkers Didn't Do" post, and after one of the biggest drinking days of the year, we felt that it was time to post a new one.
In the past few weeks or so:
An underage drinker did NOT kill his 9 year old nephew in a drunk driving crash.
An underage drinker did NOT rear-end a police car while driving drunk.
An underage drinker did NOT drunkenly crash into a gas pump, causing it to burst into flames and injuring her passenger.
An underage drinker did NOT drunkenly crash his semi-truck into another person's car (and injuring her) after driving the wrong way.
An underage drinker did NOT injure a police officer and two children in a drunk driving crash.
An underage drinker did NOT run over and pin a pedestrian after drunkenly crashing into several cars and a stop sign--all in the same night.
An underage drinker did NOT drunkenly crash into both a restaurant's fence AND a the front porch of a nearby house in the same night.
An underage drinker did NOT wrap her car around a telephone pole with a BAC of 0.223, breaking the pole in half, and then try to flee the scene--and this was her second DUI offense. (Some people never learn)
An underage drinker did NOT drunkenly crash into two cars and a group of pedestrians while speeding, injuring five people and putting one in critical condition.
An underage drinker did not throw such a drunken fit in public that they needed 10-12 cop cars to come and arrest her for disorderly conduct. All because the bartender wouldn't serve her anymore.
The cop that killed two people while speeding and driving with a BAC of double the legal limit was clearly over 21, since they generally don't allow anyone under 21 to become police officers.
An underage drinker did NOT have the chutzpah to sue his friend and Applebees for serving him the alcohol he drank on the night he drunkenly crashed into and killed two teenage girls. (Another repeat offender, by the way)
And that, my friends, is just the tip of the iceberg.
The drinking age should be lowered to 18. I think a big reason why the drinking was raised to 21 is because of the popular rediculousness to use 21 as a minimum age. There's no logic in using that age as a minimum. Opponents of a drinking age of 18 say that if the drinking age was 18, then most young women and young men who are 18-20 would do the things mentioned in this article. However, they are wrong because the proposal in this blog would make sure that doesn't happen. Most young women and young men who are 18-20 know better anyway.
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