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YellowOrangePink · 2025-05-09T17:07:59+00:00

The shops that keep selling my 16 year old child alcohol? Is it worth reporting?

Intheshower · 10/05/2025 06:43

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Temporaryname158 · 10/05/2025 06:30

You don’t care they are doing it so I’m not sure why you posted. You see it as no problem

i’d say it probably isn’t a problem until one of these kids he sells too has too much to drink, causes trouble, ends up in hospital or the police get involved and then people ask questions and your child’s name is all over it for buying and selling alcohol to children

TimeForABreak4 · 10/05/2025 06:29

Intheshower · 09/05/2025 18:58

Your child is not only buying for personal consumption
but also selling

OP, your child sounds in dire straits

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"Dire Straits", give over. Teens have been doing this for decades, even when I was a teen the person who looked the oldest would go in and get the drink for everyone from the one shop he could get it. All of us now are law abiding citizens with good jobs and lives. Many teens drink alcohol at 16.

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zigazigahhhh · 09/05/2025 22:09

Yeah you could report anonymously! But also I’m a bit shocked at some of the other responses… I did this at 16/17 and so did most people I know. He surely isn’t the only one.

CaptainFuture · 09/05/2025 21:58

YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 21:46

My minor is more minor than the minors who are taking the alcohol from him after asking him to get it. They're closer to 18 than he is. But you're right, he's a serious risk to wider society, he should be in youth detention centre.

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So he's a precious angel with these big bad meanies taking his procured alcohol??
Why are you letting your vulnerable baby out when he lacks capacity or cognitive processing skills to know what a shitty decision this is??

grumpygrape · 09/05/2025 21:56

YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 21:46

The bit where you missed the sarcasm

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Oh, sorry. I forgot the MN get out clause of 'sarcasm' equates to 'it was only banter'.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and has no place in serious discussion but perhaps you didn't really want a serious discussion.

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YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 21:46

grumpygrape · 09/05/2025 21:43

Now I’m even more confused.You say you are OK with it which is why you want it to stop ? Perhaps we need to clarify what you are OK with, the retailer selling to underage people, your underage son buying alcohol, your underage son selling alcohol to other underage people, or what else ?

The seller is in the wrong but so is your son, so are the other underage buyers.

Please point out where I have below average intelligence.

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The bit where you missed the sarcasm

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YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 21:46

CaptainFuture · 09/05/2025 21:37

You're OK with your teenager providing alcohol to minors?
You're talking about yourself re below average intelligence yes?

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My minor is more minor than the minors who are taking the alcohol from him after asking him to get it. They're closer to 18 than he is. But you're right, he's a serious risk to wider society, he should be in youth detention centre.

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plantsnpants · 09/05/2025 21:44

Your local licensing department of the council will

grumpygrape · 09/05/2025 21:43

YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 21:24

Yes I'm OK with it and that's why I want it to stop. Sometimes I need to remember that 50% of the population have below average intelligence 🙃

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Now I’m even more confused.You say you are OK with it which is why you want it to stop ? Perhaps we need to clarify what you are OK with, the retailer selling to underage people, your underage son buying alcohol, your underage son selling alcohol to other underage people, or what else ?

The seller is in the wrong but so is your son, so are the other underage buyers.

Please point out where I have below average intelligence.

CaptainFuture · 09/05/2025 21:37

YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 21:24

Yes I'm OK with it and that's why I want it to stop. Sometimes I need to remember that 50% of the population have below average intelligence 🙃

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You're OK with your teenager providing alcohol to minors?
You're talking about yourself re below average intelligence yes?

grumpygrape · 09/05/2025 21:35

ResumedDeliveryBets · 09/05/2025 21:11

Are you saying they are equally responsible or more weight for accountability should sit with the teenager (that’s how I read the “dob them in comment”).

Licensing law is very specific. Adults operating licensed premises and obtaining a licence are made very, very aware of this. This is because should they choose to act outside of the law they may have it within their gift to serve many teenagers and create a localised teenage drinking problem.

Demanding that individual daft teenagers be reprimanded (prosecuted as some posters have said) is unrealistic, and a waste of time and resource.

Not only that, it discourages concerned parents from reporting the license holding adults who also have it within their gift to stick to their legally binding license and refuse to serve in line with their local Challenge protocols.

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No, I’m not saying they are equally responsible. I also didn’t say the underage child should be prosecuted. I didn’t ‘demand’ anything.

I do understand the licencing laws but felt that the OP was putting all the ‘blame’ on the licensee.

I would have no issue with the licensee being prosecuted but I think OP’s child should have to be dealt with for their transgressions.

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YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 21:24

grumpygrape · 09/05/2025 20:46

OP, I’m not sure what you want to achieve. You seem to be OK with your underage son buying alcohol, including selling (yes, it is selling even if he isn’t making a profit and they provide the money) to others but you want to dob the retailers in to the authorities for their part in the transactions.

Both your son and the retailers are in the wrong. Both should be reprimanded.

Yes I'm OK with it and that's why I want it to stop. Sometimes I need to remember that 50% of the population have below average intelligence 🙃

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CaptainFuture · 09/05/2025 21:20

So according to the posters on here who have teens buying alcohol and passing it on....
It's absolutely not their fault...the shops are of course dragging them in and forcing it on them?!
The poor teens would never, ever want to drink or share alcohol if they weren't being FORCED to by these evil mean shops!!

ResumedDeliveryBets · 09/05/2025 21:11

grumpygrape · 09/05/2025 20:46

OP, I’m not sure what you want to achieve. You seem to be OK with your underage son buying alcohol, including selling (yes, it is selling even if he isn’t making a profit and they provide the money) to others but you want to dob the retailers in to the authorities for their part in the transactions.

Both your son and the retailers are in the wrong. Both should be reprimanded.

Are you saying they are equally responsible or more weight for accountability should sit with the teenager (that’s how I read the “dob them in comment”).

Licensing law is very specific. Adults operating licensed premises and obtaining a licence are made very, very aware of this. This is because should they choose to act outside of the law they may have it within their gift to serve many teenagers and create a localised teenage drinking problem.

Demanding that individual daft teenagers be reprimanded (prosecuted as some posters have said) is unrealistic, and a waste of time and resource.

Not only that, it discourages concerned parents from reporting the license holding adults who also have it within their gift to stick to their legally binding license and refuse to serve in line with their local Challenge protocols.

WisePearlPoet · 09/05/2025 20:59

CaptainFuture · 09/05/2025 20:16

Was your son also using fake ID? So of course 'not his fault' 😪....

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I'm not sure how to take your response, he wasn't using any ID, the kids were simply being served. I didn't say it wasn't his fault, it absolutely was.

grumpygrape · 09/05/2025 20:46

OP, I’m not sure what you want to achieve. You seem to be OK with your underage son buying alcohol, including selling (yes, it is selling even if he isn’t making a profit and they provide the money) to others but you want to dob the retailers in to the authorities for their part in the transactions.

Both your son and the retailers are in the wrong. Both should be reprimanded.

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YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 20:45

WisePearlPoet · 09/05/2025 20:02

I had the same issue some years ago now. An off licence selling alcohol to underage kids, one of them being my son.
The first thing I did was to to into the shop and make them aware that I was aware.
I then spoke to the Police who by this time had received lots of complaints by concerned residents. It ended up with a licencing hearing and the shop being closed. It was a scurge on the neighbourhood and resulted in me being assaulted by my son due to intoxication. I would do the same thing again if I had to.

Gosh I'm so sorry that happened to you. And I'm glad to hear the shop was closed down

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YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 20:43

CaptainFuture · 09/05/2025 20:15

So your working full time teenager... so not a school child.
Is proudly and illegally buying alcohol for children, using fake identification.
But.... poor lamb.... ITS SOMEONE.ELSES FAULT!! Get them! But not my poor innocent baby?....🤨

Where on earth did you get the bit about the fake ID? He's not using any ID. I don't see how he's any different to kids that are still in education, I would be keen to hear that - is this a legal distinction? Girls who have left school can consent to sex sooner than those who do their GCSEs?

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YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 20:41

CaptainFuture · 09/05/2025 20:18

@YellowOrangePink hopefully you will contact police and your teenager will be arrested and charged for their fraudulent actions and for giving alcohol to children!

So the child giving other children alcohol is a bigger problem than adults giving it to children. OK dokes 😉

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YellowOrangePink · 09/05/2025 20:40

CaptainFuture · 09/05/2025 20:16

Was your son also using fake ID? So of course 'not his fault' 😪....

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No fake ID, he's not being asked for any ID, he doesn't need one. If he was using fake ID why would I go to the police?

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CaptainFuture · 09/05/2025 20:18

@YellowOrangePink hopefully you will contact police and your teenager will be arrested and charged for their fraudulent actions and for giving alcohol to children!