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)