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Surely you can't let a 20 year-old get away with what might be a beer.

Law enforcement showed great mercy in dropping charges against this girl. In fact she should consider herself lucky they spared her life. But I fear other disobedient subjects may think they too can get away with no consequences for their reckless actions.

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Reckless were the officers, that did not have properly recognizable badges. They should've called in Police to stop the car.

As a team they showed tremendous lapse in judgment and should be fired for endangering a group of teens.

For all it was - tour de force by people who had nothing better to do. There are safe way to do things and there are stupid ways that might make them feel empowered.

flexie was being sarcastic.

Yeah, pulling a gun on an underage buyer of alcohol seems like it shouldn't even be an option. You're essentially pulling a gun on a child. Not to mention the huge waste of money to have that many agents staked out to catch some petty criminal.

20yo == child?

According to your legal system, apparently so. If the law says that 20 year olds are not mature enough to buy alcohol, then by definition at least at some level they are legally considered to be immature and not able to make rational decisions for themselves.

What's harder to accept: that a 20-year-old is still a child or that a 20-year-old is not old enough to buy alcohol legally?

Can I just shoot 'em, Sarge, and make the paradox go away? All dis tinkin is makin my head hurt.

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