WHERE TEEN DRINKING LED: Criminals? Or just having some fun?

[shugah]

WHERE TEEN DRINKING LED: Criminals? Or just having some fun?
January 27, 2006
BY BILL LAITNER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

The judge had chastised nine students caught drinking at a Troy high school prom last spring. That would be the end of it, he figured.

It was, until Judge Michael Martone stumbled across a Web site weeks after the students had been sentenced to probation. Leering back at him from his computer screen were some of the same students from Troy Athens High School, now in college.

On the site, they were giving him the finger. They were toasting him with cups of beer and chugging shots of Jagermeister liqueur. They were posing with beer cans stacked almost to the ceiling, and retching into toilets at Michigan State University.

The Web site's headline said: "F U Martone. ... Night after court/ Hahaaa."

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The students were brought before Martone again. He lugged the evidence into court, inside his laptop.

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He sentenced her to 30 days in the Oakland County Jail. She was marched off in handcuffs, to spend Christmas and New Year's Day behind bars.

Martone then sentenced Stesney to 15 days. The two become cellmates.

Their parents were stunned.

Stesney's mother, Cheryl Stesney, who would not let her daughter comment for this report, said Martone "let his anger get out of control. He was just so hurt and embarrassed by that Web site."

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/NEWS03/601270321/1001/NEWS

[rfranklin]

1. uh...they were on probation...they weren't very smart...

perhaps their parents should think about that.

[baby_mouse]

2. Stupidity, that most imprisonable of offenses...

[noonwitch]

3. Yeah, but we are talking about MSU parties here

My sister went there, I went to WMU (1982-86). We partied a lot at Western, lots of illegal, underaged drinking, but the Spartans take underaged drinking to depths we never thought of. I think it was more of a brazeness thing-K-Zoo is a much smaller town, and the police were more vigilant. We kept it indoors, for the most part, or we got tear-gassed.

[johnfunk]

4. Sorry to sound like a killjoy, but...

... the contemptuous little shits deserved it. Why am I reminded of the Bush twins? They were on probation. They knew the rules. They got a good life lesson in the rule of law.

[JVS]

5. Don't make a website about breaking your probation!

It's a bad idea.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. I'm with you.

This is one for The Darwin Awards. Yet they still cry Crocodile Tears.