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To: one_less who wrote (77137)	4/7/2000 8:57:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Good morning, brees! Upon re-reading Steven's posting, I still come away with its point being that the young man was not in jail for any ill behavior related to drinking; he was in jail for drinking any alcoholic beverage in a public place at an age that the state had determined was too young. The old lady's attitude makes a lot more sense when you do not assume inebriation or disorderliness as the reason for his being in jail. If the young man was picked up in a "carding sweep" while he was enjoying a beer with his dinner, then I do have to question the logic of a set of laws that treats the same person as an adult in one life-risking setting and as a child who cannot be expected to show good judgement in another. There is no evidence from what Steven posted that the woman was an enabler. She expressed her indignation over a grave logical disparity in the law and its being enforced in such a fashion as to jail someone who transgressed this illogical law.