Has anyone here ever been caught under-age drinking?

cooltown

Has anyone here ever been caught under-age drinking?
Any funny stories?

Jumpy

Ever been caught.

ardinn

yes - lots of times!

PeterIanStaker

Yep been caught a few times:cool:

brummytom

Nope, my mate got stopped by the police one though after getting a train to a party.

They opened up his bag, looked inside and broke their bollocks laughing, handed it back to him and said "Have fun, kid".

He looked at the front of the bottles.... 'Non-alcoholic'.

Carl Sagan

I don't think I ever was. I somehow always managed to be off taking a piss or at the shop when my friends were caught.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

yep, and went to court and closed a nightclub cos of it
Wasn't a popular bunny after it but twas the bouncers fault for letting me in

Chaotic_Forces

Jolie Many Sometimes wrote: »

yep, and went to court and closed a nightclub cos of it
Wasn't a popular bunny after it but twas the bouncers fault for letting me in

Nope, it was your fault for drinking underage.

Overheal

caught? it was a frikken retired cop that let me do it in the first place

Killer Pigeon

Yeah, the bleedin' guards caught me and the lads drinking Dutch Gold in the field, ya know da field, when I was 10. Bleedin' sh'mad so we were.

I Love Cheese

Not by the fuzz. But I was thrown out of pubs and stuff when friends were having 18th's but that was only by the bouncers.
After I turned 18 , 4 months later we finished the leaving cert and were drinking in a primary school before going into town, the guards were called, we ran out around the front, saw them along the road outside, we ran back around the back of the school and back out the front, I grabbed the nearest girl I could find, tossed my drink in a bush and walked out with her, 2 seconds later my friend sprints down the school driveway and gets taken into the station and everyone else gets away scot free. It was fun.

orourkeda

Underage drinking is for wimps.

I much preferred underage sex, gambling and drug use.

Asphyxia

Nope never was and never will be now that I am over age

el oh el

yeah, was in germany back then, but we got off scott free as the police man accidentaly ("sorry im extremely stressed") hit one of my mates. He offered not to tell on us if we didnt tell on him oops i just did

scientific1982

Caught by the Gardai. No funny stories as seeing my mother cry doesnt really tickle my funny bone.

ananas

Regularly, used to go bushing all the time. Not a Friday night would go by without pegging it up fields and milling yourself on gates. So much more fun than being civilised in a pub!

El Horseboxo

Had a few minors against me when i lived in the US. One of my mates brothers got fined because me and his brother were drinking in the bedroom. Two other friends has been there earlier and one of the girls got caught drunk by her parents. She called the police and they knocked on the door. The poor fellas brother had no idea what we were doing in the room. He had been smoking weed in the living room. He was lucky the police knocked on the kitchen side otherwise they would have smelled it. America is mad strict for that ****. My last fine over there was when back on holidays and i was 2 months away from 21. Had been drinking for years by that stage.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Nope, it was your fault for drinking underage.

Nope, as a minor I didn't have the mental capacity to realise what I was doing

mikemac

Any of ye with experience of the USA?

A girl was telling me once she was leaving a bar one night with a bottle of Bud in her hand and was fined for drinking in public, realy on the doorstep of the bar.
It's taken very seriously. She wasn't even seen drinking from it, I suppose just a bit drunk and she never left it down before she walked outside.

Some many use a paper bag to carry their open drinks. You see this on TV shows a lot.
Is that why they use a paper bag?

Oranage2

Yep a few times, Gaurds just made us pour out the open cans and they put the un opened ones i'm sure in storage:rolleyes:

Asked for names and address and i always gave an actual address and name of someone i didnt like

charliemidrif

one time i lol'd with chemicals from school trying to make a treat for Halloween but in the ensuing rush to get pissed drank some acid and got violently sick all night and when i thought the worst was gone went home, got sick allover my brothers bed when my dad was putting me to sleep. naturally my bro never touched the drink after that all thick yellowy sick stunk his bed out

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Jolie Many Sometimes wrote: »

yep, and went to court and closed a nightclub cos of it
Wasn't a popular bunny after it but twas the bouncers fault for letting me in

something similar happened my sister,cops brought the hotel/nightclub to court,think it got thrown out

orourkeda wrote: »

Underage drinking is for wimps.

I much preferred underage sex, gambling and drug use.

:eek::D

citizen_p

yeah gardai just pour out cans, and my mother / father didnt really care as i didnt get absoulutly hammered, (getting sick, stomach pumped etc...) just polluted/mouldy.

Rycn

Knacker drinking, those were the days...

stiffler123

Yep. Cops found me asleep on a bench in town when I was 15. I should explain that I got the crap kicked out of me by a middle aged Knacker about an hour earlier. As they were driving home, I begged them not to leave me outside my house as my mum would kill me. They said they would let me walk in myself but they had to see me enter my house. So I walked up the drive way like a drunken ninja, put my key in the door as silently as possible and tried to creep up to bed. Just then my little sister ran in and ratted me out. Was not a proud day for me.

RMD

Where I drank when I was young was known to local Gardas and they'd usually do a check 1-2 times a night every weekend. Fun part of the challenge was trying to get your cans done before they'd come :pac:

It's not as if it's a serious offense, only know 1 guy who's ever gotten in trouble as a result and that's because he started abusing the Garda. Most of them don't give a ****e anymore, they'll usually just take the cans and tell you to go home.

HavingCrack

Been caught buying drink under age...lets just say the guards attempt to get the shop's licence revoked was an utter joke afterwards..not fun..at all..

yuloni

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cooltown

Yes! It was by a doctor in a hospital. I was at home one night with a few friends and my mam was in the living room. She didn't know what we were doing but we weren't drunk really. So we were messing and I jumped up n my bed and bounced off it and fell on the floor. I broke my hand. I was in loads of pain but I went into the bathroom and brushed my teeth and used loads of mouth wash and went up and told my mam I slipped and she drove me to A&E. I was first meet by a nurse and she asked me what happended and I told her most of the story and everything was grand and then I got my x-ray taken. Then it was off to the doctor to read it and he asked me what happened and I said something different by mistake and the nurse had written down what happened so He then looked at my eyes and he smelt my breath and he knew I was drunk. Since I was 16 at the time. He couldn't really tell my mother. So he sked me who was with me and I said I was by myself and then he felt sorry for me and he tought I was at home drinking by myself and he started giveing me all these information sheets about drink and my depression.

charliemidrif

cooltown wrote: »

Yes! It was by a doctor in a hospital. I was at home one night with a few friends and my mam was in the living room. She didn't know what we were doing but we weren't drunk really. So we were messing and I jumped up n my bed and bounced off it and fell on the floor. I broke my hand. I was in loads of pain but I went into the bathroom and brushed my teeth and used loads of mouth wash and went up and told my mam I slipped and she drove me to A&E. I was first meet by a nurse and she asked me what happended and I told her most of the story and everything was grand and then I got my x-ray taken. Then it was off to the doctor to read it and he asked me what happened and I said something different by mistake and the nurse had written down what happened so He then looked at my eyes and he smelt my breath and he knew I was drunk. Since I was 16 at the time. He couldn't really tell my mother. So he sked me who was with me and I said I was by myself and then he felt sorry for me and he tought I was at home drinking by myself and he started giveing me all these information sheets about drink and my depression.

doomsday scenario alright

amacachi

I've not been caught as such. Back when we were 15/16 I was usually the purchaser. Anyway I was meant to be buying for a load of mates one day but wasn't around when they called for me, so my gimpy 15 year old mate decided to try his fake ID. He couldn't go to the Tesco next to where they were because not long previously he had asked someone to buy drink for him and it turned out to be the store manager. :pac: So he went to the other Tesco and stocked up on vodka, gin and cans. Few days later anyway the result was on the front of one of the local papers, a 14 year old girl had a half bottle of gin and had to go to hospital. Lucky enough escape for me but the full story was even better. Two Gardaí happened upon them not long after the girl initially passed out and asked who bought the drink for them, my mate decides to tell them he did and handed over his fake ID. I doubt they even believed it was his real name because it's almost as bad as Neville Neville. So he was arrested and was left in an interview room while one of the Gardaí had his mother in floods of tears about how he had committed fraud and it was his fault the girl was in hospital. :pac:
Luckily that day I was in a house out in the country drinking 30-odd bottles of Stella. :pac:

Diabhal Beag

I have had it taken off me by the Gardai but never arrested or anything like that. My friend had his stomach pumped recently though and the Gardai brought him to hospital.

Steodonn

Not too long ago we were drinking and playing twister in a field( too mad ). As we were leaving the garda pulled up and the usual empty your drink put full ones in the boot ( Dont think anyone had more than a can or two left) but they took the twister game too . My friends little brother was none to pleased that his twister game was now sitting in a garda station

Chaotic_Forces

Jolie Many Sometimes wrote: »

Nope, as a minor I didn't have the mental capacity to realise what I was doing

Bollocks and you know it. Yeah it was there fault for letting you in; it was your fault for trying to (and successfully) breaking the law.

Rycn

Yea when i was underage.

sock puppet

Asked an off duty Guard to buy me drink before. That's about it really.

RMD

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Bollocks and you know it. Yeah it was there fault for letting you in; it was your fault for trying to (and successfully) breaking the law.

Bouncers job is to control who comes into the club and their actions once they're inside. If a bouncer let an underage person in, that's the bouncers fault action was taken against the club.

Chaotic_Forces

RMD wrote: »

Bouncers job is to control who comes into the club and their actions once they're inside. If a bouncer let an underage person in, that's the bouncers fault action was taken against the club.

I would have the little fu*ker thrown in jail personally. Trying to ruin a bouncer's job, a club's reputation and serveral other people's jobs should be a criminal offence.

And no that wasn't a comment on the user that did it.

Shoelaces

Yep,

I was 15 years old on Paddies Day 2002. My friend had come up from Galway to Dublin as he was drumming in the parade. He knew this other fella who was a bit older than us and lived in Leixlip. When my younger friend had dropped his snare drum off at whatever depot he had to he met up with me and the older guy.

We each got a shoulder of Vodka from Dunnes Stores then made our way towards Leixlip on the bus having a few swigs from our bottles on the way. When we arrived we decided to plonk ourselves on some bench in a carpark beside a supermarket? i think. Anyway my younger friend whips out a bag of white rhino and starts rolling up. We passed it around and all seemed to be going well until the mixamatosis of the vodka and grass began to affect this older fellas better judgement. He thought he was a regular Oscar Wilde making loud and obnoxious comments to passers by, some young, some old. Attempts at subduing his passing quips resulted in abuse directed at yours truely. Deciding that the best option was to bite my tongue and let him have his way with the strangers i continued to drink my shoulder, nestled comfortably in the pocket of my jacket.

Sadly his loudness attracted the worst kind of attention. I had risen to take a leak and was mid flow when i was disturbed by the sight of my two companions running, or trying to run down some path that runs by the river. Taking a deep breath i packed my penis back into its denim fortress and turned to greet the sight that had so startled my chums. A black mariah had parked itself right by where we had been drinking and one of its occupants began walking towards my direction. Deciding that the best option was to great the gentleman with a cheery politeness i strode towards him with a smile only to slip and fall mid sentence and land at the base of his immaculatly polished shoes. "hello gar- woooops".

I picked myself up from the ground and stared at him with a look somewhere between fear, surprise and strained confidence. "have you been drinking" he asked me. "No Garda" I slurred. "Dont ****ing lie to me" he bellowed. "I can smell it off your breath, where are you from?" "G-g-g-Greystones Garda" i replied. "Jaysus you're a long way from home, what are you doing here." "Staying at my cousins Garda" "And your cousin would be one of the other fellas, he would?" "Yes Garda". "well we'll drop you up so". Now this is where it got worse. I told him that i didnt know where my cousin lived because they had just moved and i was visiting. I had to give the name of the older fella just so i would be hopefully taken to his house. Turns out this lad is known well in the town and the Garda tells me that im to pass on the message that they are coming for him. Finally he tells me that he has good news and bad news for me. "The good news is that im not going to arrest you" "thanks Garda" "The bad news is im going to fine you". A €80 fine for being caught drinking. They left me in the middle of a town i had no idea round and never even searched my pockets for the shoulder of vodka still hidden in my pocket yet now caked in a thick film of sweat. "Dont let me see you back here again" they said as they drove off.

Meanwhile the other two lads are being chased down Leixlip mainstreet by a Garda on foot who eventually catch's them. "Never run from the Gaurds you ****ers" he says. "Now lads i have ye for litterin (The lads threw their drink and the grass into the river mid chase), drinkin under age and running from us, empty your pockets". The younger lad takes out 10 marlboro red, skins and a lighter from one pocket and about three ventolin inhalers from the other. "Smokin with de asthma you ****in eejit ya" is all this Garda can say. He takes their names and lets them off, no fine, no warning, nothing.

We met up again and discussed what had happened, i was rather distressed that these two had not been reprimanded and i had, especially the older fella. I did have some cheap giggles when later back at his house he drank a few shots of really old baileys then got violently sick in his coal bucket but that was the only taste of vengeance i had.

A week or so later i returned to Lexilip to pay the fine at the library thinking this would be the end of it however i was summoned a few weeks later to speak with the juvenile liason officer in Bray. All this over that bastard screaming abuse at strangers.

I am now an alcoholic

mikemac

You've a very good style of writing Shoelaces
The story seems to flow

Just saying

El Horseboxo

feelingstressed wrote: »

Any of ye with experience of the USA?

A girl was telling me once she was leaving a bar one night with a bottle of Bud in her hand and was fined for drinking in public, realy on the doorstep of the bar.
It's taken very seriously. She wasn't even seen drinking from it, I suppose just a bit drunk and she never left it down before she walked outside.

Some many use a paper bag to carry their open drinks. You see this on TV shows a lot.
Is that why they use a paper bag?

It varies so much from state to state. Even within states there are different laws in different counties. Most of the public drinking offenses are considered to be doing it in a place where children may be present. Outside a bar one night wouldn't be considered one of those places and i would have thought that they'd let you off with a warning. Unless they were obviously drunk and loud. I lived in Kansas which has some of the strictest alcohol laws in the US. I heard recently they were talking about suspending a driving license if caught underage drinking. Even if you haven't got your license yet.

HavingCrack

amacachi wrote: »

I've not been caught as such. Back when we were 15/16 I was usually the purchaser. Anyway I was meant to be buying for a load of mates one day but wasn't around when they called for me, so my gimpy 15 year old mate decided to try his fake ID. He couldn't go to the Tesco next to where they were because not long previously he had asked someone to buy drink for him and it turned out to be the store manager. :pac: So he went to the other Tesco and stocked up on vodka, gin and cans. Few days later anyway the result was on the front of one of the local papers, a 14 year old girl had a half bottle of gin and had to go to hospital. Lucky enough escape for me but the full story was even better. Two Gardaí happened upon them not long after the girl initially passed out and asked who bought the drink for them, my mate decides to tell them he did and handed over his fake ID. I doubt they even believed it was his real name because it's almost as bad as Neville Neville. So he was arrested and was left in an interview room while one of the Gardaí had his mother in floods of tears about how he had committed fraud and it was his fault the girl was in hospital. :pac:
Luckily that day I was in a house out in the country drinking 30-odd bottles of Stella. :pac:

He didn't force her to drink did he?? Therefore saying it's his fault is ridiculous.

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

I would have the little fu*ker thrown in jail personally. Trying to ruin a bouncer's job, a club's reputation and serveral other people's jobs should be a criminal offence.

Ah yes the typical heavy handed law and order beloved of After Hours. Your argument makes no sense at all.

1-It is the responsibility of any place supplying alcohol to make sure under age people are not admitted, whether they use fake ids or not. If the person is using a fake id and is caught by the guards they'll suffer the consequences and not the club.

2-If a club has a reputation for allowing under age drinkers in it should face the consequences, not the minor.

3-Bouncers are trained to spot fake ids.

4-Purchasing alcohol underage and or consuming it is no longer a criminal offence and instead needs a Juvenile Liason Officer sent out to prevent a person getting a criminal record for a 1st tiem offence.

5-Seriously, thrown into prison for sneaking into a nightclub????
Are you really serious :eek:

Shoelaces

feelingstressed wrote: »

You've a very good style of writing Shoelaces
The story seems to flow

Just saying

You are a gentleman

Pdfile

orourkeda wrote: »

Underage drinking is for wimps.

I much preferred underage sex

noob :rolleyes:

being 14 and pulling 18-24ish y.o girls is where its at OP.