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[DukeStreetKing]

Delivery People Urged to Rat Out Minors

Thu May 27, 8:55 AM ET Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo!



PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - The long arm of the law may be ringing your doorbell and holding a pizza.



Police in Portsmouth hope to enlist pizza delivery people and hotel clerks to help cut into underage drinking and parents who allow it.


Under a new law, it's illegal for the owner or occupants of a home or hotel room to host a gathering of five or more minors who are drinking or using drugs. Teens as young as 17 who throw a party could be tried as adults.


Portsmouth Police Sergeant Mike Schwartz said the program is called the "Booze Bounty." He said food delivery people and hotel clerks would receive $50 if their anonymous tips of suspicious activity leads to the arrest of a party host.


"The message being sent to parents is that it's not safe for them to host a party," said Jackie Valley, of the Community Diversion Program in Greenland, which works to keep at-risk youths out of trouble with the law. "This doesn't change the fact that youths using alcohol is still illegal."

 

[Maleficent13]

Originally posted by DukeStreetKing
Delivery People Urged to Rat Out Minors
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - The long arm of the law may be ringing your doorbell and holding a pizza.

Portsmouth Police Sergeant Mike Schwartz said the program is called the "Booze Bounty." He said food delivery people and hotel clerks would receive $50 if their anonymous tips of suspicious activity leads to the arrest of a party host.

How are they going to give money to an anonymous tip?

 

[stinkerbelle]

Originally posted by Maleficent13
How are they going to give money to an anonymous tip?

I found this article about an hour ago and emailed it to my brother - who works in Porthsmouth.

very INTERESTING town they've got up there...

 

[delswife]

HEY! I could finally afford gas again! (actually, this program could make me a very, very rich woman)

How ARE they going to give money to anonymous tip?

And is it retroactive? Someone owes me big time.

 

[NMAmy]

Ok...here's what I find weird. It's ok for a gathering of five or less minors to be drinking?

 

[Maleficent13]

Originally posted by NMAmy
Ok...here's what I find weird. It's ok for a gathering of five or less minors to be drinking?

This does not seem to be a very well-thought out plan.

But if it helps fund delswife's trip reports, then I'll support it!

 

[monarchsfan16]

No it isn't well thought out. Welcome to the world of NH laws. And I think that people younger than 17 (how about 14 or 15) should even be tried as adults for throwing parties like these. Underage drinking, and drug use have gotten way out of hand in NH. Probably the whole country, but I hear plenty of it around here. One of the kids I went to gradeschool with threw a party our freshman year, and the kids that went absolutely trashed his house. According to people that were there, there was nothing in the house that wasn't broken if it could have been broken. They even destroyed the hot tub, and all the windows along the back wall of the house. His parents were down on Nantucket for a long weekend. The party was busted by the cops. Aside from a night in jail (his parents couldn't get home immediately to bail him out), he got no punishment at all. All because he was only 14.