Underage Drinking Study
By Jamie Burch
Published: Tue, May 06, 2008 - 12:10 pm
Last Updated: Tue, May 06, 2008 - 12:13 pm
Last Updated: Tue, May 06, 2008 - 12:13 pm
Deputies issued 267 citations for underage drinking during the 8-week Spring Break. They wrote 166 tickets during Spring Break 2007.
More than half the underage drinkers this year were high school students.
Below is a partial list of where the students were from:
Alabama
22 college students 30 high school students
Mississippi
17 college students 11 high school students
Florida
2 college students 7 high school students
Louisiana
29 college students 54 high school students
Georgia
9 college students 12 high school students
Students from Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Indiana, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Maryland, and New Jersey also received citations for underage drinking.
Sgt. Ted Pecot, with the Sheriff’s Office Beach and Marine Unit, says the department hoped to prevent Spring Breakers from getting drunk and causing other problems.
Last month, a News 5 Community Coverage special report looked at underage drinking on the Gulf Coast and gave parents ways they could keep their child from becoming part of the problem. Click here to watch that special report.
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What a joke. You will never keep kids from getting alcohol. This stuff has been going on forever and all of sudden there is a problem. “Sgt. Ted Pecot, with the Sheriff’s Office Beach and Marine Unit, says the department hoped to prevent Spring Breakers from getting drunk and causing other problems.” Now that’s funny, are you so blind to think you can stop kids on spring break from drinking? These people live in a dream world. Wake up people! Stuff goes on that you have no idea about.