I love it – I absolutely love it. From the Asbury Park Press:
It’s happened again.
For the second time in a week — and the seventh time this year — police broke up an underage drinking party in town, this one on Westfield Street late Thursday.
How great is it that the people in this town are reaping what they’ve sewn? You folks kept railing on about those evil college kids who were ruining your small, little family town. Now you’ve got parents that admit they were wrong for allowing a bunch of 17 and 18 year olds to have a “kegger” in their backyard until early hours of the morning.
Bear in mind that I, having lived in the town’s “worst” fraternity house, NEVER allowed a party to take place in my backyard at night like these brazen folks did. At this point, I could almost say that these damn folks in Ocean Township are ruining our quiet, civil little college town! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
But of course, there is always a way to blame college students in Ocean Township. That’s right – you could crash your car in this township and it’s some college student’s fault. You trip and fall and break your leg and those damn college students are to blame. From the same article linked above:
But it’s also true that Ocean Township is a college town, located near Monmouth University in neighboring West Long Branch, Gifford said.
What the hell does that have to do with anything? This sentence is so completely out of place in this story that it actually bears repeating. Go and use the link above and read the story and tell me if this inclusion makes ANY sense given the event that occurred and the recent history of SEVEN underage drinking busts – all related to local high school students. College students had NOTHING to do with these arrests and I don’t say that because college students wouldn’t party with these kids…I say it because some have taken place in the summer! When the college students are all dispersed throughout the state!
I think what I love most about these underage drinking arrests is that, in truth, the problem is NOT with the families or the kids – the problem is with the overzealous police who will arrest you for sneezing too loud. I wish that the rest of this township would wake up and realize that they’ve turned their “little slice of heaven” into a police state. And I wish that they would realize how lop-sided their police coverage is – we have to pull teeth to get the cops to take care of the kids that loiter outside of Scoops Ice Cream and Kandi King between midnight and three in the morning. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a couple of kids gather to have a party and the shit hits the fan.
It’s ridiculous…then again, it’s Ocean Township.
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