Johnny Dommy P

Being with your parent doesn't absolve you from getting carded and being refused service. Numerous parents have been prosecuted in our state for hosting prom after-parties, etc., allowing the kids to drink in their home and then are stunned to find out it was against the law when the cops came to break up the party.
In one case, a kid left such a party and killed someone in a car accident. Blew double the limit. Parent was convicted of reckless endangerment.

 

I'm predicting that Johnny TD is going to go off the rails in spectacular fashion before his time is up at A&M.

 

All of this is true but I'm talking about a parent letting his/her own child have a drink. As long as daddy wasn't buying drinks for other minors (assuming there were any present) I don't think Manziel or the bar can be charged.

 

Then there's this:
http://tinyurl.com/a7dt8vh

No, having one drink as a minor in a club is not a disaster. And being in a casino in Oklahoma isn't illegal for a 20-year-old. But there's a pattern here, as Boom has suggested, and if Sumlin or Manziel's parents don't get control of this, there will almost certainly be something worse in the future.

 

And you're wrong. There isn't a single state of which I'm aware that lets a parent buy drinks for a minor child, or lets that minor child drink in public. There is no such thing as a parent granting that kind of permission. Not only will the kid get cited but the parent will.

 

And so will the bar, if it knew, or should have known, that the alcohol was being purchased for a minor. In short, if alcohol is being purchased in a form that can be easily shared, everyone at the table has to be carded.

 

In some states, including Texas, I beleive, your kid can drink with you underage but they have to be with you and on private property. So, for the prom after-party, you can let your kid drink in your home. But that kid can't get in a car afterwards. Also, you can't have kids who are not your own kids drinking without their parents.

 

So apparently:
8. on alcohol-selling premises, with parental approval:

In some states, underage consumption of alcohol is allowed on an alcohol-selling premise, such as a restaurant or a bar, if the alcohol is furnished to the minor by a legal guardian and if the minor is in the presence of his or her legal guardian.


According to this site: http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002591

Never knew.

 

Is a bar private property?

 

So I'm not wrong.

 

From the article:
But Manziel needs to realize that he is the face of college football right now and he can’t post tweets like a 17-year-old recruit or an overpaid professional athlete.

Why not?

 

If that site is right, looks like you're spot on.