Pizza Delivery SS

[RustyHammer]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - The long arm of the law may be ringing your doorbell and holding a pizza.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20040527/ap_on_fe_st/snooping_minors_1

Police in Portsmouth hope to enlist pizza delivery people and hotel clerks to help cut into underage drinking and parents who allow it.


Under a new law, it's illegal for the owner or occupants of a home or hotel room to host a gathering of five or more minors who are drinking or using drugs. Teens as young as 17 who throw a party could be tried as adults.


Portsmouth Police Sergeant Mike Schwartz said the program is called the "Booze Bounty." He said food delivery people and hotel clerks would receive $50 if their anonymous tips of suspicious activity leads to the arrest of a party host.


"The message being sent to parents is that it's not safe for them to host a party," said Jackie Valley, of the Community Diversion Program in Greenland, which works to keep at-risk youths out of trouble with the law. "This doesn't change the fact that youths using alcohol is still illegal."





:banghead:

 

[lapidator]

He said food delivery people and hotel clerks would receive $50 if their anonymous tips of suspicious activity leads to the arrest of a party host.

Are there no editors anymore?

 

[sturmruger]

Hey for $50 I would turn in my little sister. Actually I don't think I would waste my time. I get really sick of listening to people whine about underage drinking. It is always intersting to ask them if they did any underage drinking when they were a teen.


The sad thing is this will probably work.

 

[Sawdust]

Under a new law, it's illegal for the owner or occupants of a home or hotel room to host a gathering of five or more minors who are drinking or using drugs.

So...it's okay if I am hosting only four or less?!

Sawdust

 

[R.H. Lee]

Apparently, they don't have any real crime to deal with in Portsmouth N.H.
Sounds like a nice safe little town.

 

[La Pistoletta]

Pizza guys busting kids? No tip for you, mister.

 

[Kharn]

La Pistoletta:
I think it works in the opposite direction: No tip for pizza man = pizza man drops a dime on your party and makes 10x what your tip should have been.

I guess lots of highschool party-goers will now be eating microwaved pizza. *shrug*

Kharn

 

[Carlos]

How stupid. Like, do most people invite the pizza guy in?

Didn't think so.

The mentality of most do-gooder lawmakers and wannabes makes me want to puke.

 

[La Pistoletta]

Kharn: I guess the pizza business just got a little more potential $$$ in store for those who are ready to employ some...unorthodox dealing methods, eh?

 

[Kharn]

Yeah, I guess pizza dude now does have a rather lucrative avenue for extortion.

Kharn

 

[Aguila Blanca]

So...it's okay if I am hosting only four or less?!

Well, no. It just means you don't get the $50 if you rat out the host.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Are there no editors anymore?

Most of us are in the witness protection program.

 

[HankB]

And what happens when the local pizza emporium is boycotted by the local kids, once word goes out that they're "finks?"

 

[Deavis]

Most of the people that delivered pizza when I was not of drinking age were underage themselves. I guess that's why they always came back to the party when they got off work. I wonder if they get immunity if they "survey" the seen for the cops first.

 

[SoCalGeek]

This is absurd on so many levels- I would be shocked if this resulted in any busts at all. At any rate, even if there were teenagers stupid enough to be caught like that, they had to go and announce their plan! :banghead: On a related note, why five? Teenage drinking and drug use is already illegal. Is it somehow super-ultra-double-bad illegal when there are many of them in one place?

 

[Werewolf]

Amazing...
Simply Amazing...

How long till the FEDS pick up on this and ratting out your friends and neighbors to the FBI or ATF for fun and profit becomes all the rage.

The United People's Republik of AmeriKa!

It becomes more and more real as each day passes.

 

[buy guns]

And what happens when the local pizza emporium is boycotted by the local kids, once word goes out that they're "finks?"

finks? is that what you old guys used back in the day? the proper term today would be 'rat'.

 

[SoCalGeek]

buyguns- "Narc" would also be appropriate, but i doubt it will come up since the reaction of most of these delivery men will be more like "Hey, can i have some?"

 

[atek3]

fascism!!
I hate Fascists and the rats that hurry to help them.

atek3