The legal limit for minors

[ivor]

Girl, 11, charged with DUI after a high-speed chase

Duck declined to release the girl's blood alcohol level but said a blood test at the hospital showed it was higher than .02, the legal limit for minors.

There's a legal limit for minors?  I was thinking minors couldn't drink.  Maybe they can in Alabama?

   

[goat starer]

i dont think anyone under 10 should be made to work down in the Pits.....



http://history.utah.gov/news_and_events/currents/past_issues/images/kids--miner.jpg

[Aggie]

Surprising - but if there's been enough cases of drunk minors, it makes sense to set a lower limit.

Novice drivers up here (within 2 years of getting a permit, before re-testing) are subject to zero-tolerance for blood alcohol (in AB, legal drinking age coincides with the earliest age you'd get a 'full licence').


Asides, she wasn't driving legally in the first place....

[Swatopluk]

Who issued a driving licence to an 11-year old?

[Pachyderm]

What did she pay her insurance with? Penny sweeties?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

How did she reach the pedals?

Ok, she might but how can you tell that whe wasn't drinking too much root beer?

the alcoholic content which results from the fermentation of this root beer and found it to be between 0.35 and 0.5 %. Comparing this to the 6% in many beers, it would require a person to drink about a gallon and a half of this root beer to be equivalent to one 12 ounce beer.

[Aggie]

I just found cans of rootbeer that big at the natural foods store (Bubba Keg size - about 5 L).

[Swatopluk]

Did the kid empty a few barrels? (that sounds like gun abuse, now that I look at the sentence)

[Sibling Chatty]

It's Alabama.

I lived there for about a year. When a 32 year old woman is babysitting her 3 grandbabies, and tell you she has ONE daughter...what the hell can you expect? (That was 25 years ago, too. The concept of some sort of societal restraints on human behaviour sounds good when you have a high school senior (that's got a kid in kindergarten) having a graduation party a Chuck E.Cheese because it's her 5 year old sister's birthday as well--and they all get thrown out because someone's smuggling in moonshine.

Alabama, like Mississippi, but more people have teeth.

[anthrobabe]

Something to do with the idea of

if a minor drinks
then it is illegal in anycase
but if the minor has a BAC of X then they are really in trouble- or something convoluted like that
it's the USA after all

if you would like to give yourself a headache without drinking yourself check this out
http://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/index.asp?SEC=%7BE0F4FCC5-F475-4CC4-81EF-9CB6A10A902A%7D&Type=B_BASIC

[Pachyderm]

Alabama, like Mississippi, but more people have teeth.

Can I just say "Thank You" for that sentence.

It reduced me to tears, and I spilled my tea.

Hugs all round!

[anthrobabe]

Alabama, like Mississippi, but more people have teeth.

Can I just say "Thank You" for that sentence.

It reduced me to tears, and I spilled my tea.

Hugs all round!

I agree--- she gives the best comebacks I've ever known in my life
Oh- I love me that Sibling Chatty
I'd give anything to be in the line behind her in the grocery one day when some fool gets out of line with the 10 items of less thing...
(plus she can drive in Houston Texas!)