Talk:Underage drinking in America

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"Underage drinking in the United States is a prevalent issue that occurs in most young adults' lives."

This is meaningless and it is obviously false! "Most young adults" doesn't refer to US young adults and it's completely unquantitative. Suggestions? --pianoface 12:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Article is already included here -Thebdj 16:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I figured this was a more robust article. I felt the the driniking age info mentioned above was not very appropriate on a world-wide list when other countries were left out, so I created this page which should provide more detail. If the label needs to stay, let me know. Otherwise, I'll delete in a week or so.

Cheers,

Joe

(Radio-x 22:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC))

"Police are usually moderately tolerant of underage drinking provided that the drinkers are not in violation of other crimes while drinking. Police are even more tolerant if the drinking occurs indoors on private property."

This is a very unprofessional paragraph. It's such a general statement and there's literally no way at all to prove it's authenticity. I live in a small town that employs way more officers than necessary, and because they don't have much else to do they lick their chops when busting kids for underages. They'll bust entire parties because kids are drinking. I just don't think you can generally say that police are "moderately tolerant" of underage drinking. Maybe where that person is from they are, but to include such information in a wikipedia article is not appropriate.

                   Mankind716 01:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)Mankind716

The 'shoulder tap' is much more commonly called 'fishing'

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I have removed the unsourced content of this article. Unfortunately, this consisted of the entire article, leaving nothing but the category and cleanup tags. Feel free to put whichever portions back you can find sources for. --Xyzzyplugh 20:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

At first I was going to revert your change. However, having read the deleted text, I can see your point now... Urgh. DWaterson 23:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)