MELILLO719

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    No i belive right now purchase is opertaing at a working fire. I belive west harrison is on standby with 1 engine the tone went out for smoke in structure then came out again for smoke showing additonal manpower thats all i heard as far as i heard 2501 and and engine are standing by purchase hq

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    Well what do we trust people to do at or before 18?

    Smoke? Quit school? Get a job? Join the army? Get married? Have kids? Vote? Run for office? Become interior firefighters? They can be trusted to do all that, and yet we daren't let them have a drink, even under the supervision of their parents? If anyone truly believes that... well, they're beyond reasoning with, IMHO.

    okay but thats alot diffrent then alcohol. Like someone said how many mva's do fire departments get called out to were teens under 21 have been seriosuly hurt injured ejected or killed because of alcohol. I mean to me having a drink under your parents supervision is fine with me i see were you're going with that but 18 able to drink sorry i'm under 21 and i don't even think that's right i have friends now that drink and do stupid things and thats exactly why 21 is a good age to be able to drink leaglly ur more mature and know better.

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    Having been raised in Scotland, I shake my head sadly at American attitudes to this whole subject. I mean, what are we thinking? A kid can join the army, serve a tour in Iraq, come home, get married, have a baby - and his parents could still get busted for giving him a drink to celebrate because he's STILL 'too young and immature to drink'???!!!! Let's stop kidding ourselves.

    In Scotland a kid over the age of five can legally be given alcohol at home. Now that's intended primarily 'for medicinal purposes' in the case of younger kids - a parent giving giving a preteen kid any quantity of drink more than very occasionally would rapidly find themselves facing the Scottish equivalent of a child endangerment charge! But for older kids... 12, 13, 14... it's very common for them to enjoy an occasional small glass of wine with a meal at home. At 15, you can go into a bar or restaurant and legally be served beer or wine (but not spirits) if you're in the company of someone over 18. At 18, you can buy and drink anything, anywhere.

    21... whose brilliant idea was that, and who the hell let that become law? I'll tell you one thing, the first state to break with what appears to be the universal pattern of having 21 as the drinking age will make a *fortune* - number one party destination! As for the notion that the police can interfere in how I raise my kids, in my private home... that's repugnant. Honestly, what do you think is the best way for a young person to learn to drink? With parents and older siblings, around the Sunday dinner table, and later with them in bars and restaurants? Or in the woods, in the company of dubious peers, with whatever illicit booze they've managed to get their hands on?

    As for the PD and priorities... well if you get a complaint you gotta respond, I guess - but otherwise... well I think practically any other priority should be higher - such as catching drunk drivers, for starters. IMHO. Rant over.

    21 i think is a great age to be able to drink leaglly because to me you are more mature and ready for a drink yea its a little high but think about it 18 you just come out of high school ur gunna wanna drink and party and to me it seems like a big disaster. but then again thats just my opinion