teens stickering alcohol with warnings about buying for kids

[ccharles000]

LEXINGTON - The pain of losing friends and classmates in alcohol-related incidents prompted 16-year-old Rocio Pastor to get involved in Project Extra Mile.

She looks forward to raising awareness about underage drinking during the holiday season with a sticker shock campaign to place warning stickers on alcohol products for sale.

The stickers will alert the purchaser that it is illegal to share such products with minors and the legal penalties for doing so.

"When we do this, we want to show that yes, it is possible to do something about underage drinking," Rocio said.

Rocio asked for support from adult counterparts in the Project Extra Mile coalition during a recent meeting in Lexington. She noted that the sticker shock campaign will be managed by youths, who will assign the tasks, even to the adults.

"We're really, really excited. It's our first project of the year, and it's our biggest project," she said.

http://www.lexch.com/articles/2009/11/06/news/local/doc4aeeef8d0e650631146058.txt

[liberal N proud]

1. Good for these kids but...

What will the business think of these people applying stickers to product in their stores?

I am sure many will object.

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. What are they going to do? Make them buy the products?

Come to think of it, that gives me a great idea. They should go into the stores and start smashing the liquor bottles with the expectation that 'you break it, you bought it" applies. Then they will finally get the alcohol for which they are yearning but denying under the guise of this anti-drinking campaign.

[MercutioATC]

3. That wouldn't be "You break it, you bought it"....

...that'd be known as criminal mischief (or criminal vandalism, depending on the state).


Companies spend millions of dollars designing bottles and labels. Defacing them is punishable by law (and should be).

[seaglass]

5. They do it in my town. The liquor store owners give permission. n/t

[MercutioATC]

4. What responsible person encourages vandalism?

If they were vandalizing new cars at dealerships with stickers about the environmental impact of cars, would that be ok, too?

[MH1]

6. How is this vandalism?

Burks said Dawson County's student group will seek permission from retailers to place the stickers and will likely make several visits to a business to mark merchandise.

[MercutioATC]

10. Retailers do not have the right to alter product labeling.

If these kids think that people need to read ANOTHER warning that's already well-publicized law, they need permission from the brand, not the retailer.

[tabasco]

21. The fuck they don't.

Back to law school, professor.

They are not "altering product labels." They are applying a sticker on a product owned by the retailer.

[taterguy]

7. Cars are beneficial. Alcohol is not.

[MercutioATC]

11. Says you.

That's a values judgment...just as "gay marriage has no social benefit" is a values judgment.

[taterguy]

12. Says 99.9% of America

OK, maybe if you live in Manhattan cars aren't beneficial.

Everywhere else cars are essential.

[MercutioATC]

13. ...and they're's nothing wrong with alcohol, either.

I'm not debating your assessment of the value of cars, I'm taking issue with your judgment of alcohol.

[taterguy]

14. Sure there is. It turns you into someone that can't spell

:hide:

[MercutioATC]

16. You're right!

That'll teach me to type a quick message as I'm running out the door :)

[taterguy]

17. In the interest of full disclosure I was drunk when I typed that reply

[MercutioATC]

24. ...and I wasn't when I posted the reply to which you replied...

I'll try to do better :)

[JVS]

18. -1,000,000,000,000. There is no ignore function strong enough!!!

:nuke:

[MercutioATC]

25. Have strong feelings about alcohol, do ya?

:eyes:

[JVS]

19. dupe

[surrealAmerican]

8. I appreciate her initiative to do something positive, but ...

... this won't accomplish anything. People are already aware of the drinking age. Her friends, and others like them, will have no more trouble obtaining alcohol because of these stickers.

[Kievan Rus]

9. Lower the drinking age and we won't have these kind of problems to begin with

[liberati]

15. Yep. If these kids are old enough to drive to the store

to get alcohol they ought to be old enough to buy it.

Wait...that's not right. :(

[Kievan Rus]

26. Old enough to make the ultimate sacrifice in the Army, you should be old enough to drink

[tmyers09]

20. Lower it to 18.

It really makes no sense if you think about it. At 18, you've been driving for two years, can smoke cigarettes, go to strip clubs, vote, go to jail, and join the military, but you can't have an alcoholic beverage?

[RedCappedBandit]

22. Yeah.. stickers.. that ought to do it.

[smalll]

23. Nice to know at least a few of the iPod Kids are doing something a little more worthy than...

gang-raping each other or NOT voting in off-year elections!