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So a professor of archeology doesn't know how to read a label?
Maybe he missed the consumer warning. And the alcohol content.
Ass.
-Will
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I never check the alcohol content...
...on my lemonade. Or on the apple juice I buy for my daughter.
But maybe I will now. Just in case.
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I don't know about this...
The whole thing sounds a little fishy to me. If there was no alcohol in the 7yo's system, then where did the 12oz of hard lemonade go? Who really drank them? Was there a professor parent or two out there trying to prove an academic or social point? Was someone trying to set-up a nice little lawsuit for themselves? Maybe the prof asked for a "lemonade" and the vendor gave him the hard lemonade. Then, the prof decided to just run with it to prove a point or make someone pay for the mistake.
I think it's possible that someone could be oblivious to the existence of hard lemonade. And, I have noticed that people with exceptionally high book smarts don't always have the best common sense. I don't read the ingredient labels for everything. However, the word "hard" before lemonade or cider should always tip you off. (Jon is loving that last sentence.) Maybe when they asked for his ID, that should have tipped him off.
Like I said, the whole thing sounds really fishy to me.
gotta say sumthin'
Two things bother me about this story:
1. That dad is an idiot (proving that smart people CAN be stupid)
2. The unbelievable speed at which CPS moves on cases without common sense thinking.
A long time ago a wise person said to me that "ignorance is not an excuse". That little pearl of wisdom has certainly been useful in making some of the choices in my life and allowing me to have some sort of success with the outcome of those decisions. It's called personal responsibility. What type of person stops paying attention to their surroundings long enough to not notice that they are purchasing an alcoholic beverage for their 7 YO?? "I don't watch TV" is BS, what you don't read magazines either? Never seen an advertisement of any kind?? Clear case of just plain ignorance. With that being said, what happened next was certainly spooky and unneccessary. Why would CPS remove this child from his home based on some retarded judgement call by his dad for two days?? If it was something ongoing, sure by all means swoop in. But, if it was based solely on this incident, the system is in need of an overhaul. I don't like thinking that my daughter can be taken away from me in an instant if I made one bonehead move like the professor in this story. I know it's a lot to ask, but can we restore simple common sense to government activities? Also, I wouldn't buy my daughter (even if she was 21) Mike's anything - their products suck...
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My question with the article
Why is "Dancing With the Stars" mentioned so much?
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Fishy Indeed
I would agree that something is out of place. Anything alcoholic tastes very strong, even if it is sweet as in the case of hard lemonade. His kid would have made a stink about the lemonade tasting funny. I got a rum ball once at a Xmas party and ran to my mother believing I had consumed ammonia. I had a spoiled bottle of Snapple once and I knew it was off. Alcohol as a kid? Well that is likely to blow your head off. Not to mention, don’t people know the word “hard” in front of a drink refers to it being alcoholic?
And as many have pointed out, the bottle is covered in labeling!
Be Seeing You.
I don't think the kid really
I don't think the kid really drank 12oz. It was an estimate. Who thinks that a baseball vendor is going to sell you a "hard" lemonade? I didn't even realize that they sold those drinks at games. If the guy ordered a lemonade and just passed it to his kid, it was clearly an innocent mistake.
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Isn't the bottle itself 12 oz?
In which case, if it were full, he wouldn't have had any, and if it were empty, he would have had 12, but thrown it away, and if it were half-full then we could say "6 oz".
I don't get it. Maybe the bottle is 20 oz.
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Where's the mystery?
He's from the University of Michigan. That explains it all.
Josh
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