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TheMightyFavog

(13,770 posts)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 07:53 PM Mar 2012

If you are about to turn 21, or know someone who is about to turn 21, please listen to me

Please, please, please, if you're going out to celebrate, go out with friends who will watch your/their back.

There has been a tragic death at my alma mater. They pulled a kid who was celebrating his 21st birthdy a couple of nights before out of the icy Wisconsin River today. He was last seen leaving a bar near the river.

http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/article/20120305/SPJ0101/120305125/BREAKING-Body-recovered-from-Wisconsin-River-missing-UWSP-student?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Alcohol was likely a factor, police say. Duffey turned 21 at midnight Saturday, and the last time anyone saw him he was leaving Joe’s Bar at about 1:15 a.m., only a few hundred feet from where a diver found his body 60 hours later.

Police began searching the river after a witness came forward Sunday saying he heard someone yelling for help near the Clark Street bridge at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Assistant Chief Brian Kudronowicz said. The witness investigated, but did not see anything, Kudronowicz said.

A team of tracking dogs also led toward the river Sunday, and again Monday morning, Kudronowicz said.

No one is sure why Duffey walked toward the river instead of heading to his residence on Isadore Street. He left the bar alone, and police have no information that could place him in another location. Video of downtown establishments turned up no clues.

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If you are about to turn 21, or know someone who is about to turn 21, please listen to me (Original Post) TheMightyFavog Mar 2012 OP
Always a warning to the wise. calimary Mar 2012 #1
I figure the drinking age should be 18 with supervision. TheWraith Mar 2012 #2

calimary

(81,220 posts)
1. Always a warning to the wise.
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 07:58 PM
Mar 2012

I've got one of my own warming up in the bullpen now, for his 21st birthday. ALWAYS wary, I am. And I always make sure he knows it.

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)
2. I figure the drinking age should be 18 with supervision.
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 08:01 PM
Mar 2012

You get to drink alone at 21. It provides for a learning period.

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