Really, a 10% arrest rate? I'm disappointed in this new generation, apparently they aren't half as good at getting away with shiat as I was at their age.

Also, if this square is under the impression that drinking and sex among 17-year-olds is restricted to school trips and the beach, she's been living under a rock for quite some time. My knowledge of US cultural history makes me want to assume her entire family has been under said rock since the 1600s (when the average birth of the first child in the 'Puritan' colonies was 6 months after a woman's marriage) but I can only personally confirm that the vault doors couldn't have been sealed any later than the early 1990s.

By the time your kid is 15 or 16 you're way too late on teaching them the proper behaviors regarding sex and drugs. All you can do is hope they can work out to call a sober person to drive them home on their own if you haven't promised to do so yourself by then.

jaylectricity: The article was written by a woman. A mother, in fact.

Doesn't in any way reduce the likelihood of her being an over-excited pedophile. Just sayin'.

JackieRabbit: This is how I know that this is being way overblown. Unlike most other states, Maryland allows municipalities to set the minimum drinking age. In Ocean City, it's 21

I am most curious as to which parts of Maryland do NOT have a 21 year old drinking age.

ChipNASA:

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I am totally creeped out by the one in the sleeping bag.

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You want photos? No you don't

this is fark, yes we do

fireclown: I don't have kids, but as a 1985 graduate of a Maryland high school, I can assure you all that boozing and sex during senior week aren't new.

My Dad graduated from high school in 1940...He was on to my shenanigans 40 years later. I couldn't figure out how.

We didn't have this kind of thing where I'm from. No drunk farkery for me.

"We had meetings once a month since February," said a 17-year-old Catholic school grad from Lebanon, Pa...
"I had to beg, beg my mom to go," said a 17-year-old from Leonardtown...

Here's the thing, your kids are 17 and just graduated from high school. If you can't trust them to go off on their own, what the fark are you going to do next fall when they head off to college, or next year when they are 18?

If you can't trust your kids at this point, it's far too late.

FTFA:
"I had to beg, beg my mom to go," said a 17-year-old from Leonardtown. She and her two friends had matching henna tattoos of Chinese characters on their hips and matching short-shorts in three neon colors. I was drawn to interview them because they looked 12.

So they were already low-class, tatted-up skanks . Got it.

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You missed one...

Dancin_In_Anson: fireclown: I don't have kids, but as a 1985 graduate of a Maryland high school, I can assure you all that boozing and sex during senior week aren't new.

My Dad graduated from high school in 1940...He was on to my shenanigans 40 years later. I couldn't figure out how.

That is always a rite of passage -- realizing in your mid-20s or so that while you may have conned your Mom you got precisely jack shiat over on your Dad because he pulled the same insanity at your age.

I accidentally several girls in Ocean City back in the 80's, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Why does a thread about skanks on Fark invariably turn into biatching about skanks? You guys should be encouraging skankery. I know I do.

ChipNASA: //That is weird....what the hell is she doing??

"burrito-ing" It's the newest internet craze.

The real tragedy is that the article is nine pages. tl;dr

spentmiles: spentmiles: I was quite surprised to see my eighteen year old daughter on Girls Gone Wild. She had like a five minute scene. She's an adult, though, and if she wants to make pornographic movies, then that's her business. I just fast forward to that part if I've got the remote.

THROUGH that part...



Ooooooh, that was a bad miss....

And in those cages, your daughters are dancing like the nastiest strippers ever banned from TV

One can only hope.

facisto: The article omits the fact the Ocean City completely sucks.

They Don't call it "The redneck Riviera" for nothin' Hon. However for a 17-18 year old HS who's just graduated and is anticipating that in a few short years the world will shower them with their every desire in recongition of their staggering genius and heart-breaking uniqueness, a week in an OC beach House with all the booze, partying, and barely-clad, half- drunken girls as eager to get laid as you are, that you could ever ask for? That's got-damn near Nirvana

'Class of '88 Archbishop Spalding in Severn MD....

So let me guess, The author and I use that term loosely was the class of 1986 or something.

Magorn: They Don't call it "The redneck Riviera" for nothin' Hon.

I'm pretty sure that the redneck riviera is the gulf cosst, hon.

ChipNASA: wingedkat: ChipNASA:

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I am totally creeped out by the one in the sleeping bag.

Where???


/LOL!!!
//That is weird....what the hell is she doing??
///POOP COMING OUT!!!!

I'd like to think that one -- or both -- of her hands is ...um... 'focused on other activities of a selfish nature'

max_pooper: spentmiles: I was quite surprised to see my eighteen year old daughter on Girls Gone Wild. She had like a five minute scene. She's an adult, though, and if she wants to make pornographic movies, then that's her business. I just fast forward to that part if I've got the remote.


If she were my daughter I'd...

What would you do Daddy?

I'd cover that girl in chocolate syrup and boogie till the cows come home.

\RIP Zappa

Heh... long time since I saw that reference

/well done

When I was 18 I was hammering nails into 2x4s. Guess I missed the bus.

Magorn: facisto: The article omits the fact the Ocean City completely sucks.

They Don't call it "The redneck Riviera" for nothin' Hon. However for a 17-18 year old HS who's just graduated and is anticipating that in a few short years the world will shower them with their every desire in recongition of their staggering genius and heart-breaking uniqueness, a week in an OC beach House with all the booze, partying, and barely-clad, half- drunken girls as eager to get laid as you are, that you could ever ask for? That's got-damn near Nirvana

'Class of '88 Archbishop Spalding in Severn MD....

I don't dispute the senior week, boozing, getting laid part of the equation; its the location that I don't care for. Its a dirty place. Its Atlantic City without the gambling or hookers, which is the entire point of Atlantic City.

Revek: So let me guess, The author and I use that term loosely was the class of 1986 or something.

I assure you that there was plenty of booze, sex and drugs in OC in 1986. And if my 19 year old self got some, everybody was getting some.

Is is just me, or is anyone else hearing the headline in the voice of Lana Cane talking about porn?

SandMann: When I was 18 I was hammering nails into 2x4s. Guess I missed the bus.

I was throwing hay bales and cordwood and pushing cow shiat around in a skid steer, so don't feel too bad.

SandMann: When I was 18 I was hammering nails into 24 year olds. Guess I missed the bus.
BANG BUS!
/at least I didn't say 2 4 year olds.
//too old

Mr. Coffee Nerves: That is always a rite of passage -- realizing in your mid-20s or so that while you may have conned your Mom you got precisely jack shiat over on your Dad because he pulled the same insanity at your age.

And every generation thinks they're on to something new.

I told my Boys early on, "There is NOTHING that you can say, think, or do that I haven't said, thought or done at least twice."

They still thought they were getting away with shiat. Ah well...so did I at that age.

namatad: You know, if your kid wants to go to senior week, you have already "failed".
On the other hand, did you really think your kid wasnt already drinking and farking long before senior year??

Did you know that it is easier for kids to get pot than to get booze?
Did you really think that your kids would be different than you were at that age???
ROFL

Your post is full of a lot of assumptions about the teenagers and about the parents. The sexual assault, rather than the sexual fun, is what seems most problematic for parents. Also, not many teenagers-per-capita are stupid enough to drink to the point of risking death every night for a week, but this article suggests they will all be in one concentrated mass. Parents who are worried their kids were secure at home with drinking and drugs are worried their kids won't know how to deal with actual out-of-control crowds and people who steal shiat, or even cops who are using their powers to coerce the kids into obedience.

facisto: I don't dispute the senior week, boozing, getting laid part of the equation; its the location that I don't care for. Its a dirty place. Its Atlantic City without the gambling or hookers, which is the entire point of Atlantic City.

Actually, it's Atlantic City without the Atlantic City. Which is great.

/AC is flat out filthy.

My idea of a good time back in high school was playing Halo with my friends, ordering a couple of pizzas and some soda. Today it's the same thing, with booze and fighting games instead. I guess I am kinda boring.

The thing is that girls who act like this are exactly the kind of girls guys love to party with and bang, but would never really want to marry. Deep down, part of us knows that acting like that is still wrong, even though it's a ton of fun. Same with guys really. What makes someone a ton of fun to party with in college and high school is pretty much on the opposite end of the spectrum to what makes someone a good partner, good son/daughter, etc. So we both love it when we're teens and hate it when we're adults, and it happens over and over. Teens act like this for fun, grow up, see it's the opposite of what makes a good husband/wife/son/daughter, and the act outraged by it.

Most of these teens will be against this very same thing in 15 or so years, and then they'll be the ones wringing their hands about underage drinking and sex.

Daughter goes into the cage. Daughter dances in the cage. Skank comes out of the cage. Your skank.

SandMann: When I was 18 I was hammering nails into 2x4s. Guess I missed the bus.

So, what, making shiat bookshelves for your dorm?

Doing some interior frames for a sheet-rock wall?

Making a prop for your fan-made Warriors sequel?

Teaching someone who runs barter-town?

Euphemism for what TFA describes?

//Not a lot of 2x4s in actual construction, is why I'm asking, apart from the aforesaid wall frames, so I assume you're not talking about getting a job.

spentmiles: spentmiles: I was quite surprised to see my eighteen year old daughter on Girls Gone Wild. She had like a five minute scene. She's an adult, though, and if she wants to make pornographic movies, then that's her business. I just fast forward to that part if I've got the remote.

THROUGH that part...

[applause]

I smell another MTV reality show coming from this.

facisto: The article omits the fact the Ocean City completely sucks.

No joke. We hit the beach down in lower NC and my daughter said she wanted to go to Ocean City because it was closer. I opened up Google Maps and showed her the beach, which was wall-to-wall people all the way up to the Delaware border. Now she never wants to go there ever.

/she's claustrophobic

taurusowner: Most of these teens will be against this very same thing in 15 or so years, and then they'll be the ones wringing their hands about underage drinking and sex.

AND the pictures of damned near everything will still be floating around facebook/internet/whatever. I'm kinda glad that cameras weren't as common back in the day.

A couple days after high school graduation, I was doing Basic Training at Fort Knox.

JackieRabbit: This is how I know that this is being way overblown. Unlike most other states, Maryland allows municipalities to set the minimum drinking age. In Ocean City, it's 21. High school graduates are four years too young. More, the city is rather strict about drinking in public. It's illegal to do so on the street or the beach. Some kids are going to booze. Most are not. More, Ocean City has been working for some time to discourage these kids, as they are really bad for business. It's easy to find yourself in trouble there. They'd do better staying at home and partying in private.

Yeah OC is real strict hell they can even bust you fro sleeping on the beach. My parents live in Rehoboth so I always get to hear tales of the kids getting busted for drinking. In the 90s when I graduated I was staying with friends there but I got kicked out for fighting. A few hours later they got busted for drinking.

If your daughter is slutting it up in a dancers' cage, you have failed as a parent. You're a bad person and should feel bad.

/Zoidberg

taurusowner: The thing is that girls who act like this are exactly the kind of girls guys love to party with and bang, but would never really want to marry.

So, given that no one should ever get married until age 20 or so at minimum, it's probably a good thing for society that 17-20 year olds overwhelmingly act this way.

//Applies to guys, too, no one wants to settle down with a souse, and that's great for a souse that has no intention of settling down.

Is there no limit to the stupidity of these brain dead punk kids??
Their future looks grim!

They're safer in a cage. Quit your biatching, parents.

spentmiles: spentmiles: I was quite surprised to see my eighteen year old daughter on Girls Gone Wild. She had like a five minute scene. She's an adult, though, and if she wants to make pornographic movies, then that's her business. I just fast forward to that part if I've got the remote.

THROUGH that part...

Lol, i was kinda wondering....

It must be spring. It's the annual "YOUR KIDS ARE GOING TO FARK THEMSELVES TO DEATH AND HAVE AIDS BABIES!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!" bullshiat scare stories.

fireclown: /AC is flat out filthy.

Agreed, but for the longest time it was the closest place with legal gambling.

Triumph: facisto: The article omits the fact the Ocean City completely sucks.

No joke. We hit the beach down in lower NC and my daughter said she wanted to go to Ocean City because it was closer. I opened up Google Maps and showed her the beach, which was wall-to-wall people all the way up to the Delaware border. Now she never wants to go there ever.

/she's claustrophobic

Outer Banks is the way to go.

Dancin_In_Anson: I told my Boys early on, "There is NOTHING that you can say, think, or do that I haven't said, thought or done at least twice."


why would you state something that will obviously be interpreted as a challenge ?

your cunning plan...I'm not so sure.

Yipee! My seventeen year-old daughter is down there right now in the thick of it.

She's a good kid though. Really. I'm more afraid of her getting sucked into the ocean by a riptide then I am of her getting knocked up.

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