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Two Marshfield kids suck down discarded beers at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion - as detectives watch
By adamg on Tue, 08/09/2016 - 11:27am
The Blue Hills Bank Pavilion finds out Thursday if it will suffer any consequences because a pair of new Marshfield High School graduates spotted nearly full cups of beer on a table at a concert and sucked those puppies right down during the Sublime with Rome show on July 12.
Unfortunately for them, BPD Det. Daniel MacDonald and Sgt. Det. Robert Mulvey were doing a routine inspection just then and spotted them as they guzzled the beer at a high-top table near the back of the venue - and then went over to talk to them because they seemed too young to be drinking legally.
"They [gulped them down] in quick fashion," Mulvey said.
Both acknowledged they were 18 when the detectives approached.
Mulvey acknowledged he did not see the two being sold the beers or handed the beers by anybody else. As soon as he notified Blue Hills managers about the pair, they were kicked out.
Blue Hills attorney Dennis Quilty and venue managers said what probably happened was that the two were scouting out tables looking for discarded beers. They said the beer stands had closed 20 minutes earlier and that staff were already in the process of clearing tables.
Mulvey agreed that might be what happened, but said he found it unusual that the teens' cups were nearly full; that he wouldn't think that at the prices Blue Hills charges people would just leave drinks on tables like that.
But a Blue Hills manager said, actually, that happens all the time - even with drinks at $13 or $14 a pop - as concert goers rush back to their seats after an intermission. In fact, he said, post-concert cleanup is usually slowed by the need to pour out so many cups filled with drinks left behind by concert goers.
Mulvey said the two teens face criminal charges of being minors in possession of alcohol. He added that in addition to citing them, he gave them a quick lecture: "You shouldn't be going around and picking up drink in this day and age - you don't know what's in them."
The board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take.
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all i can think of is that
all i can think of is that scene from american pie...
What a great use of time and money.
Time was ya dump the beers and kick out the kids.
End of story.
Instead, we have Super Cops to save us all from ourselves.
Surprised they weren't in riot gear.
TommyJeff
Did you even read the blurb? And how is it a waste of money? The city can only make money on a citation like this.
The board does not issue
The board does not issue monetary fines for violations like this.
There are civil citations for all sorts of things
I was talking about the kids, not the event.
Dumping beers out....
Became extinct once "zero tolerance" showed up. It took common sense out of the equation when enforcing rules and laws.
I knew someone would write an
I knew someone would write an absurd, uneducated comment like this.
You're complaining about a two, maybe three person unit who is tasked with alcohol licensing issues such as this.. In a department that has over a thousand police officers that provide a multitude of services.
I'm not quite sure why Adam, who does a great job with this site, likes to post these insignificant stories so much. I'd venture to guess he finds them as humerous as I do?
Last night alone we responded to about 5 shootings, all confirmed via shotspotter. Not a blurb was written here, The Globe, or The Herald. My phone goes off everytime shotspotter does. If you knew what I knew about this city, you might have trouble sleeping.
Trust me, we are doing our jobs.
- a Boston Cop
Wait, five shootings?
Actual people shot or just five instances of guns being fired? In either case, where and when? I only caught the Southern Avenue incident.
As for why I keep posting licensing stuff, not sure I find them amusing (most of the time; yeah, the kid getting caught twice was kind of funny) so much as interesting - something going on in the city you don't usually hear about (then again, I'm still fascinated by turkey incidents, probably long after most other people have lost interest).
Adam does seem to post an odd amount of South Shore kids though
Kids from Braintree, Duxbury, and Marshfield seem to always pop up on Uhub for some reason, even if the crimes are minor.
I don't go out of my way to cover South Shore kids
Maybe they should stop coming into Boston and doing stupid crap and I'd stop writing about them (Go Wamps!).
stupid corporate names
Did anyone else read "Blue Hills" and "Marshfield" and assume this took place at Great Woods, not Harbor Lights?
Just shotspotter incidents
Just shotspotter incidents that sounded comfirmed. Not only do we get emails, but we can listen to the audio.
Anyway, they occurred overnight, a few hours after the Southern Ave incident, in Districts 4 (South End, which seems to be picking up again) and 11 (Dorchester).
Thanks!
Even us Mobile Action News Units tend to sleep overnight :-).
Whoa whoa whoa
You're saying that someone actually shot a gun, in a major city, in the typically peaceful summer season??? Crazy
Sure...
and if the kids drunk drove and hit someone, you would be the first to yell "Where were the police?"
The police were there since there were several thousand people gathered in one place. The police quietly monitored the group to make sure that everyone had a safe time. They observed children drinking alcohol and stepped in. By this account, it was peaceful.
THIS is what police do. And did well in this case.
Your post is mistaken
"They observed children drinking alcohol and stepped in. "
Nowhere in the piece does it indicate that there were children drinking alcohol. The piece clearly states the two people were 18 years old. This may be underage to drink, but the two 18 year olds are legal adults and can be tried as such in a court of law. I am not sure where you get "children" out of this.
it could lead to driving
Are these two 18-year-olds who were drinking any more likely to drive afterwards than the hundreds of other people who were drinking?
Pathetic
The drinking age should of course be 18, the age we are legally emancipated and are considered adults.Stop babying young adults. Same with tobacco products.
I will baby my tobacco
I will baby my tobacco products as much as I like, thank you. Now if you'll excuse me, it's time for Mr. Cigar Head's nap. He's burned out.
However, some people call 18
However, some people call 18 yr. old males 'children' when it suits their agenda. Well yes, he committed a violent crime, but he's just a child... he's only a teenager.
Furthermore, an 18 yr. old's brain is not fully formed, thus drinking alcohol regularly at that age is not ideal.
Another point: the drinking age was raised to 21 in an effort to curb drunk driving accidents. Let's leave it at 21 for that reason alone.
Lastly, on a lighter note, do you really want to be hanging out at a bar with a bunch of 18yr olds? I don't!
Like...
Yet it's perfectly fine to send them into a war zone to have their guts splattered on the side of the road.
Someone's gotta do it.
Why not those who don't fully understand the implications?
Perry, when did I state that
Perry, when did I state that it was fine for 18 yr. olds to go to war? Speak for yourself. Is it fine for immature 18 yr. olds to be served at bar, get behind the wheel and then splatter their brains all over the road? Think before you rant.
Ban them from driving
problem solved.
BTW, you know what causes infantile adults? BABYING THEM WELL INTO ADULTHOOD!
You simply cannot develop good judgement without practicing it. It doesn't just happen one day because "brain over!". Nope.
I hope you never have kids - you won't let them walk until they are five because their brains aren't developed enough yet!
Re: Rant
I was just pointing out the two-facedness of our arbitrary age-related laws. You put forth that 18-year-old brains aren't developed enough to allow them near alcohol, and yet we routinely hand them a weapon and send them in harm's way when it suits our political purposes.
It's a hard line to draw. I know that France, for example, where laws regarding underage drinking are less strict than ours, has a pretty severe teen-drinking problem, at least in the cities, even though folks often point to 'european' morals in defense of dropping or eliminating our own drinking age.
Specifically to your question about allowing 18-year-olds to drink at a bar a potentially be involved in an accident, I will admit to having been on both sides of that argument in my life. My current (meaning this decade) opinion is that government is far too involved in regulating the minutiae of our lives, and that this kind of arbitrary line in the sand, especially in this case where the age varies from 16 to 18 to 21 depending on where you are sitting, is overreaching. If the decision on who to serve is based on the likelihood of a subsequent accident, what about the elderly? The chronic alcoholic? The patron who just downed a handful of narcotics? At what point do we subject customers to a questionnaire before serving them?
In this particular case, I don't think any action was necessary. A couple of kids found and downed a few unattended beers at a concert/party. Good for them.
Amen!
Amen!
Furthermore, an 18 yr. old's
Only the Muslim world agrees with that.
What age did you learn to drive? Driving kills a lot of people - maybe that should be restricted to over 21 and drinking age lowered like it is in the rest of the developed world.
NOBODY
Nobody calls an 18 year old "a child" after a violent crime, except when that kid is white and rich.
Commit crime - adult at 14
Want to drive - adult at 16 or 17
Join the military - adult at 18
Want a beer - OH NO YOU ARE TOOOO IMMMATTTTURRRRREEE!!!!!!!!!
Grow up yourself some, please.
You're talking about a city
You're talking about a city which wants to raise the age of adulthood to 21.
Our politicians are too stupid to understand complex issues and the letter of existing law, yet they want to dictate what the public can eat/drink/whathaveyou under the delusion they know what's best.
Drinks
I was underage at a dinner party at a local country club, and chugged an abandoned drink down. I didn't notice the cigarette in the cup which was disgusting.. I ran outside and threw up in the open sunroof of a Porsche parked nearby.
Want to earn $5......the hard
Want to earn $5......the hard way?
That's why tigers eat their young.
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"Mulvey said the two teens
"Mulvey said the two teens face criminal charges of being minors in possession of alcohol."
Glad to hear I can unclutch my pearls because the state is severely punishing these young men for handling the demon drink. Just think of all of the victims of their heinous act!
Wait with their fingers crossed for you to break the rules...
The remarkable thing is that they found two people at a Sublime show who weren't doing anything more illegal than drinking beer underage.
Criminal?
The only thing that is criminal is that that is criminal.
What has society come to when two adults are reduced to drinking abandoned cups of beer, risking backwash, cooties and who knows what else?
It was their choice to drink
It was their choice to drink other people's drinks which means they're idiots. When I was 18 and went to concerts, I didn't drink other people's abandoned beers. I wasn't that desperate.
Sublime
Surprised isn't wasn't weed instead of beer.
Chronic
dude...
Probably both.
Probably both.
Marsh field teens
Why did they have to file charges. Minor in poss., what nonsense they didn't buy they didn't use phony ID s now they have to go to court pay a lawyer and have a record. HOW ABOUT A LITTLE COMMON SENSE?
"Possession" being the key word
They were allegedly found drinking the beers. That's possession. Pretty simple. They weren't charged with procuring the beer or giving it to a minor, just holding it. The law may suck, but until it's changed, it's the law.
Yes, they will have to hire lawyers. But unless they take their shoes off and throw them at the judge or something, chances are their cases will be continued without a finding for X months, which means that if they can manage to stay out of trouble in that period, their cases will be sealed and they will, legally, have no records.
Marsh field teens
Why did they have to file charges. Minor in poss., what nonsense they didn't buy they didn't use phony ID s now they have to go to court pay a lawyer and have a record. HOW ABOUT A LITTLE COMMON SENSE?
Stop whining, entitled brat!
Stop whining, entitled brat! I'm sure mumsy and daddy bailed your drunken ass out plenty of times. Here's the deal with society: there are rules. Unless your parents are rich, you have to follow them. You'll learn soon enough... maybe.
criminal charges for MIP
Isn't this what officer discretion is for? I could totally understand if they were being belligerent or disturbing the peace, but it sounds like they immediately fessed up and were cooperative when approached by police.
DRINK DEATH
How stupid could you be, LOOK KIDS any one can intentionally "slip you a mickey' OR put something in a discarded or unattended drink that could make you REALLY SICK OR KILL YOU
Holy
conjecture Batman: