squawking ....

Our local newspaper has a squawkbox. I think its put there to purely irritate people.... and it's successful in doing that to me. They, of course, are annonymous squawks, mainly becuase people are probably to embarrassed to admit they said something stupid. Today's stupid squawk was this:

"We need to quit blaming and holding store clerks responsible for underage alcohol sales. The blame for this rests squarely on the kids and their parents for breaking the law."

HELLOOOOO, and selling alcohol to persons under the age of 21 is NOT breaking the law??? This was my response:

Kids attempting to get alcohol is an age old problem. The law plainly states that the sale of alcohol is prohibited to anyone under the age of 21. Any drivers license, issued to a person under the age of 21, clearly states so in RED, and under the person's picture. The responsibility starts with the sale of the alcohol, by the retail clerks. How hard is it to take 3 seconds to check an ID and save a life? If alcohol is sold only to persons of legal age, then the responsibilty is completely lifted from the retail clerk!

What I really wanted to say, is the clerks that sell are idiots, colorblind or can't read or all three.
Don't even get me started......
We'll see if that gets printed!