Geo Duarte
July 16, 2023, 10:39 am
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By Geo Duarte
More than a dozen teenagers drinking beers on the beach on Saturday night.
Fire service response, plus, law enforcement also requested.
In my opinion, hope the kids do not get cited. Back in my day, when there were many more freedoms, this would not have been much of an issue.
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OMG kids drinking beer at the beach!! This town is going to hell in a hand basket, I tell ya! Why, back in the day…
Oh, wait… Never mind.
But what if the beach caught fire? Did they have enough beer to put the fire out?
Yes, but to extinguish the fire the beer now comes in the form of urine. 🙂
I agree. It is an awful thing when teens have fun. They should be chastised to the full extent of whoever wants to do it.
Brings back great memories.
The good thing about this is that they weren’t reported to be fighting, shooting guns, or lighting off fireworks/homemade explosives. Back in the day we had a beach fire at Leadbetter near the point, the fire was starting to diminish and there wasn’t much in the way of dry driftwood available. Well….several of “the boys” scurried up off the beach to the corner of La Marina and Shoreline and returned about five minutes later with about a 12-foot section of picket fence…into the fire it was tossed. Cannot imagine waking up in the morning to see that a portion of my fence was missing: “What the ‘H’ happened to my FENCE!!!!”
Ahh, I remember those days.
Take their keys…
Back in ’66 a bunch of us from the 1221 Club, Sears, got a wild pig from Figueroa Mountain, dug a pit at “the pit” and had a Luau.
I’m pretty sure most of us who grew up here have a teen memory of fires and beers at the beach. Great memories.
Add the bird refuge to the list. And then going to the dance at the rec center and a try at getting past the “human breathalyzer” at the entrance. I think he was a security guard, any hint of booze on your breath and you didn’t get in.
agree with poster, hope they didn’t get cited….this is just what we do as teens. i did it, all of my friends did it, people we dont know did it. people before us did, and generations after us did. Now we live in a thin skinned world where everyone thinks everyone elses business is theirs to get involved with. I have some incredibly fond memories of bon fire parties at Hendrys in the 80s. My first kiss. My first bonfire, my first acoustic guitar song, my first girlfriend, hours of songs and laughs and a few fights and a little vomit, but all in good times. Spent many a night camped on the beach with friends too. Now, they haul you off to jail for simply being a teen. Lame.
100%!
The comments are pretty amusing! I too grew up drinking at the beach, often at Mesa Lane, the rock, Schofield Park… And quite often, someone called us in and we got tickets for being a minor in possession and/or drinking in public. They were like $50 back in the 80’s. True we did it, but even back then, we paid the consequences.
Grew up doing this, and I have SUCH fond memories of the beach nights. A healthy fun thing.
Many fond memories of doing this in the 90s. Glad that kids are still being kids and doing what they’ve done for decades (or more). We had an adult bonfire (with beers) at Haskell’s a couple months ago and saw many young people out there doing the same. Consuming alcohol in public is not the end of the world (unless you’re in the USA).