Someone needs to bring up that alcohol age in Maryland was 21 not 18.

[LiberalFighter]

[erronis]

1. I'd rather we look at his ongoing alcohol and gambling problems. Did those $200,000 payments

ever get resolved?

[GemDigger]

2. I was wondering about that.

I remember the drinking age getting lowered shortly after I turned 18 and then returned back to 21 shortly after I turned 21. That was way before his drinking days.

[pnwmom]

4. I looked it up before. The age was raised back to 21 before he hit 18.

And he was also underage at Yale till Feb. of his junior year when he finally turned 21.

[superpatriotman]

3. He mentioned that he lived in D.C.

and the drinking age was 18

[LiberalFighter]

6. Records show his parents living in Bethesda Maryland

and nothing for Washington DC.

Only when using his name does Washington DC show up numerous times.

I'm guessing with Bethesda close to DC that he and his buddies would go to DC and buy their beer.

[Amishman]

8. DC didn't raise the drinking age to 21 until '86

Still pretty sure it would be unacceptable to buy it in DC and drink it in MD

[LiberalFighter]

10. I would agree.

[3catwoman3]

5. Many high school seniors are only...

...17, so his statement that “seniors were legal” would not be true across the board.

[LiberalFighter]

9. DOB 12 Feb 1965

He wouldn't have turned 18 until 1983. 1 year after the party.

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. True. I didn't turn 18 until right before I started college in the fall term.

Was only 17 my entire senior year.

[mikeysnot]

7. I was mentioning it in almost every thread.

[OriginalGeek]

12. I grew up in Texas and my cousin in MD

I remember always being legal once I hit 18 as Texas didn't raise the minimum age to 21 until after I was 21. and I remember my cousin, who was a year younger being miffed that I was legal while he was not as he turned 18 a few months after they raised the raised the minimum age. So he had friends that were grandfathered in - if you were legal when it was raised, you got to stay legal - but he had to wait the whole 3 years..

I turned 18 in 1981 and I'm not sure when Maryland did all their age raising.

But the main point I guess is that if MD was anything like TX with regard to beer, it was reeeealllly easy to get no matter what. I had been buying it since I was 17 and my friend since he was 16 (he looked much older than me anyway) and no matter WHEN we started buying beer, neither me, my cousin or my friend ever tried to rape anyone.