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spiveyrat
10-06-2004, 12:15 PM
Read the article (http://southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13079934&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=6)
Keith7
10-06-2004, 01:38 PM
i've gotten an M.I.P. once.. not much fun..

i got a fine of 215 dollars, had to write a 10 page paper, and do 20 hours of community service at the Gainesville Zoo in which included me scooping up goat poop all day once
spiveyrat
10-06-2004, 01:50 PM
:eek: OUCH! I got a $40 fine, period. But that was 1986.
Keith7
10-06-2004, 01:52 PM
Originally posted by spiveyrat
:eek: OUCH! I got a $40 fine, period. But that was 1986.

i got mine at a time when they were really trying to crack down on it.. i was lucky it was my first M.I.P. it was my best friends 2nd and he had to do double everything i did, I.e. $430 fine and 40 hours of community service.. he was lucky to afford college next semester :eek:
PPHSfan
10-06-2004, 02:00 PM
When I was a teengaer the legal drinking age in Texas was 18.:D
Keith7
10-06-2004, 02:03 PM
Originally posted by PPHSfan
When I was a teengaer the legal drinking age in Texas was 18.:D

there is a place close to where I now live called Mexico, its a beautiful place :rolleyes:, per haps you guys have heard of it, but the age requirment to drink there is, you must be able to see over the bar
spiveyrat
10-06-2004, 02:11 PM
Originally posted by PPHSfan
When I was a teengaer the legal drinking age in Texas was 18.:D

I believe it was 19 when I was a teen.
jason
10-06-2004, 02:21 PM
Originally posted by PPHSfan
When I was a teengaer the legal drinking age in Texas was 18.:D when you were a teenager peoples main transportation was horse and buggy...:D :D :D
PPHSfan
10-06-2004, 02:36 PM
Originally posted by spiveyrat
I believe it was 19 when I was a teen.

I remember they raised it from 18 to 19 and then a few years later to 21.
PPHSfan
10-06-2004, 02:37 PM
Originally posted by jason
when you were a teenager peoples main transportation was horse and buggy...:D :D :D
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Ranger Mom
10-06-2004, 04:18 PM
I have been legal since I was 18. They raised it to 21 right after I turned 21. My ex-husband (who wasn't an ex at the time) was only 20...so I had to buy his beer!:p

Oh, and Jason..I drove a Mazda RX-7!
44INAROW
10-06-2004, 04:22 PM
Originally posted by PPHSfan
When I was a teengaer the legal drinking age in Texas was 18.:D

lol me too :cool:
Ranger Mom
10-06-2004, 04:25 PM
They were alot more lenient in bars "back in the day" also.

My purse was stolen 2 weeks after I turned 18. I flew to Austin and went bar-hopping with some friends. All I had was my paper I.D....they let me in because the name on the paper license matched the initials in my Senior Ring!:p
gobbler grad
10-06-2004, 04:35 PM
I was lucky because we never got caught, but now i would'nt want to get an M.I.P. I believe it's a lot worse now.
shankbear
10-06-2004, 05:20 PM
Did you all read that article??? I was a judge in Southeast Texas for six years. We had a case similar to the one in BC. All the kids were at a party and the police and TABC rolled up on the residence. They found ONE kid out of 50 that had booze on them. He was holding a beer. His parents owned the house but were out of the area. Those cases came to me and my court's prosecutor. The prosecutor (usually the city attorney) got many opinions and read the law on this and found that there needed to be a direct connection between the kid and the booze. If it isn't in their hand and they don't have alcohol on their breath, it won't do. All but 1 case was dismissed. That's just the law.
AggieJohn
10-06-2004, 05:22 PM
i think that that's alot of drama....
spiveyrat
10-06-2004, 06:54 PM
Originally posted by PPHSfan
When I was a teengaer the legal drinking age in Texas was 18.:D

It is a foreign concept for me to think about a time when it would have been legal for high school seniors to be old enough to drink. I'll bet those senior years were quite different! :eek: :D
PPHSfan
10-06-2004, 06:56 PM
Originally posted by spiveyrat
It is a foreign concept for me to think about a time when it would have been legal for high school seniors to be old enough to drink. I'll bet those senior years were quite different! :eek: :D

The scary part is that there were no open container laws or seatbelt laws back then either. It's a wonder there are any Texans over the age of 40.
Keith7
10-06-2004, 06:57 PM
Originally posted by spiveyrat
It is a foreign concept for me to think about a time when it would have been legal for high school seniors to be old enough to drink. I'll bet those senior years were quite different! :eek: :D

i hear less seniors actually drank when it was legal for them to..
Gobbla2001
10-06-2004, 06:59 PM
Originally posted by Ranger Mom
I drove a Mazda RX-7!

I love you...

I wanna get an '87 or '88 RX and make it reallll nice (and fast)...

But my ultimate dream car is a '77/'78 smokey and the bandit trans-am...

10-4
Raider4ever
10-06-2004, 07:28 PM
I got a MIP two years ago my junior year in high school. It wasnt two fun i got off kind of easy im lucky. I got 10 hour of Community service. Paid $100 fine. and i didnt have my liceeans so they suspened for two more months before i could get it so i had to wait 8 months. Bad thing is the beer wasn't mine and i didnt know it was in the truck but oh well. Learning experiences!
Keith7
10-06-2004, 07:35 PM
Originally posted by Raider4ever
Bad thing is the beer wasn't mine and i didnt know it was in the truck but oh well. Learning experiences!

wow my excuse too.. who woulda thought?
Raider4ever
10-06-2004, 07:38 PM
to bad i was actually saying the truth... In which you where just lieing to get out of it.
Keith7
10-06-2004, 07:42 PM
Originally posted by Raider4ever
to bad i was actually saying the truth... In which you where just lieing to get out of it.

no I was just messing w/ you... the case was in under my legs we were caught from the get go, but it took 3 cop cars and 5 cops to finally see the case! jeez cops go to the block and arrest the guys selling crack and meth, leave us kids out on a backroad alone we were only driving 15 miles per hour, hardly dangerous
Raider4ever
10-06-2004, 07:49 PM
Well my friends where dumb enough to stop in pull someone over to tell them to go to a party somewhere, then some1 in the vechial had to pee so he stayed there and the police pulled up behind us and asked us what we where doing.... ya go figure my friend told him he was sick and he had to throw up. when i figured out they had beer in the back of the truck i was like omg he is a smart one. So im figureing the cop is thinking yoru sick because you have been drinking! Anyways no1 confessed to whom beer it was so we all got an MIP.