re: Hurd cited for underage drinking - oh teh noes

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What sucks is most of the people getting underage kids in trouble these days used to be able to drink at the age of 18.

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Sorry, but that's just not true.

Tennessee's drinking age was 21 from 1933 to 1964, at which it was lowered to 18. It was raised from 18 to 19 in 1979 and then raised to 21 in 1984.

There was a 15 year window from 1964 to 1979 when an 18 year old could legally drink and a 20 year window when 19 and 20 year olds could drink.

The youngest person that could drink legally at 18 in Tennessee is now 53 years old and the youngest that could legally drink at 19 is now 49.

Those guys are now in senior LE positions if not already retired from their LE careers. They aren't out making MiP busts.

Any street cop under 30 years old wasn't even born when it was legal for someone under 21 to legally drink alcohol.