The New York Times reveals the usual underage drinking story, with a twist.
Lisa W. Foderaro writes (excerpt):
In a twist in the continuing saga of under-age drinking in Westchester County, police officers who responded to a noise complaint at a house party recently got an unusual reception: The high school students at the party closed the doors, turned out the lights and hunkered down for three hours.
The police could see the partygoers inside as they shined their flashlights through the windows, and parents were summoned one by one as the officers traced the license plates of cars parked near the split-level on Fulton Avenue. But even the parents could not coax their children from the house.
“It was strange,” said one parent, who spoke on the condition that she not be named. “The kids wouldn’t let us in. It was a scene with parents knocking on the windows, saying, ‘You’ll never drive again,’ threatening to get them out.”