Muscatine

If today's story in the Journal is accurate, both the police department and the high school administration should be ashamed of how they handled this situation.  It sends a terrible message to our young people. 

  Yep. To prosecute would probably have ruined highschool sports this season. Heaven forbid.

Ummm..I saw the Bettendorf game.  Not much to ruin, ya know?  I'm just sayin'

I gotta say, that I agree, with how the Journal portrayed it, it does kind of sound like sending the wrong message.  With that being said, Our favorite partying places, back in the day, were the pits, and secluded farm houses out in the boonies.  I'm not saying it is right, but, kids experiment in everything that they do!  HOPEFULLY they learn from their bad experiences (without hurting themselves, or, others).  I remember going to a party once, as a Senior, and then having to go to work @ Bandag Plant #2, that evening!  The foreman, Jack Walters, put me on the "Press" (about 150 degrees).  Thought I was gonna die, but knew I couldn't go home sick, or slack off.  Taught me a lesson about partying hardy! 
The thing that we got to remember is, that SOME 21 year old, or older, had to buy the booze for these kids!  I had a person tell me today, that a couple of these kids have been drinking since they were in middle school (not hearsay!).  Sounds to me like there's a problem there that needs to be corrected very quickly.  Maybe because of this past weeks' ordeal, some of the kids got the ever lovin' sh#t scared out of them, and, they'll think twice about doing it again.  Tom Milder.