file photo by Boyd Loving
October 17,2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Rhe Ridgewood Police report that on Friday, October 9, 2015, a youth dance party sponsored by the Ridgewood Guild was held at Van Neste Park. During the course of the evening eleven (11) juveniles displayed signs of being under the influence of alcohol necessitating their being taken into custody for their safety before being released to parental/adult custody.
Additionally two (2) juveniles were transported to the Valley Hospital Emergency Room by the Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corps for treatment of medical emergencies related to the consumption of alcohol. Juvenile complaints for underage consumption of alcohol are pending.
At every high school event some kids drink. It is almose impossible to stop it. Project Graduation go through several steps to try to ensure an alcohol free night.
Love all the horrified parents thinking “Thank God it is someone else’s children drinking. Not my kid”.
It is your kid. He/She just has not been caught.
Bfd kids will be kids.
Thankfully it’s not drugs
5:11 Ignorant and permissive is not parenting.
I really, really question smarts of the parents who rent out houses for 50 kids for prom weekends (risky but okay, I get it) and then fill up several vans with alcohol and drop it off at those houses. And they leave a car or two down with the kids. Some one is going to get seriously hurt or die one of these years. I wonder how much “date rape” goes on during that weekend . . . girls to drunk to consent having sex and then pretending it was no big deal afterward.
If I hadn’t heard it with my own two ears, I wouldn’t have believed it. Parents, what are you thinking? This shouldn’t be tradition.
1127 you sound like an ignorant helicopter parent..what did you do when you were that age? Roast marshmallow for fun? Kids will be kids. Idiots like you create more problems. Do your kid a favor. Get a keg, let them have a sleepover party.