Police Bust High School Kegger

HAHA... This is amazing. These guys pulled off a great party. I'm amazed that 90 tests was given... The search was also a bit invasive. These guys are totally hardcore for standing up and throwing a huge party and not drinking, to prove a point. To many times people in a community judge people by age groups, dress, and style. People need to realize, just because someone is not a cloned image of them, doesn't mean they are bad people!

Here is a few (some are long) quotes from news articles with the source listed:

1. Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands.

But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That's because the keg contained root beer.

The party was held by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don't always drink alcohol at their parties....

...Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at D.C. Everest High School got suspended from sports because of pictures showing them drinking from red cups.

The root-beer kegger was "to kind of make fun of the school," he said. "They assumed there was beer in the cups. We just wanted to have some root beer in red cups and just make it look like a party, but there actually wasn't any alcohol."
( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23851011/ )

2.Dustin Zebro insists he didn't throw a root beer keg party to embarrass the police. His school, yes, but not the police.

It struck him as unfair that D.C. Everest Senior High suspended students from a dance team awhile back because they were pictured on Facebook drinking out of red plastic cups that tend to signal a beer bash.

So Zebro, an 18-year-old senior, devised a plan to show that things are not always as they appear. He bought a quarter-barrel - of root beer - and a tall stack of red cups, and he spread the word that the party was at his house in Kronenwetter, a village just outside Wausau, on a Saturday night this month.

"There were keg stands and root beer pong and all that, so it looked like a real party," he said. The idea was to post photos on the Internet and fool the school, he said.

Police showed up because of a complaint about cars blocking the road, and an officer administered breath tests to 89 teens.

Every kid blew 0.0....

....Everest student Keaton Meinel is one of the students who made the video. He and friends pulled up to the party, saw the flashing police lights and figured this could get interesting, he said. They taped until an officer made them stop.

With each negative breath test, the crowd cheers and shouts out encouragement like, "Good form." One guy flaps his arms as he's blowing into the mouthpiece. Several seconds of the song "I Believe I Can Fly" was edited into the video for that scene, and even the officer can be seen smiling....

....Dustin Zebro admits that no one should assume root beer is always the beverage of choice for these or any other high school seniors. Plenty of underage drinking goes on.

We have a tendency to believe the worst when it comes to kids this age. It's refreshing to be wrong about that sometimes and to find a houseful of soda-chuggers, even if they're doing it ironically. That's easy for me to say, of course, when it wasn't my house packed with 89 teenagers.
( http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=733050 )

3. Nearly 90 breath tests were done, and officers even searched locked rooms for hiding teens.
( http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/03/28/ap4828964.html )

Other sources:

1. http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008303240043
2. http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080325/GPG0101/803250603/1207/GPGnews
3. http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/16950586.html?video=YHI&t=a (video)

Hardcore heros? Black and White

I was searching youtube for the right Louis Armstrong song to post, and I found the Blue Yodel No. 9. This video not only has Louis Armstrong, however, it also has Johnny Cash! This video is great because it shows the music passion in both of them. They are on the stage, playing raw / live music. No effects or anything. How many musicians can create the music these guys do. Both Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash are American music legends and completely hardcore. I wish I would have had a chance to see them live... Also in this post I am posting a video compilation of Louis Armstrong songs. One video is not enough to show the passion and talent Louis Armstrong had!


Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash - Blue Yodel No. 9



Louis Armstrong - Compilation of Music

A Life of Hardcore

Randy Pausch is a dying professor. HE chooses to go on with his life, despite his health problems. He is not just running away from the problems in his life, he is spear heading the issues he faces. He is becoming well known for his lecture he made a while back titled "Last Lecture." It's a great lecture everyone should watch. Randy Pausch IS hardcore.

Randy Pausch reprising "Last Lecture" on Oprah


Randy Pausch's actual "Last Lecture"

Linkin Park - Faint

Linkin Park has mastered creativity. Linkin Park recreates the the style of the music with every CD release. It's impressive to see a band take the risks of not being simple and stagnate. Most bands would never take a major style change to recreate the music. A style change is a major risk, which could potentially end the band. For the reasons listed, Linkin Park is hardcore!