The Eagle-Tribune - Latest Comments in Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Brock Landers — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:36:52 -0000

Education is the only way to prevention. Yet we pretend our kids don't drink until something like this rears its ugly head...

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Jamie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:42:05 -0000

Umm, yes. The bar and the bartender has an obligation not to serve you if you are drunk. The host has an obligation not to turn a drunk lose on our highways to kill.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Wake Up — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:01:11 -0000

It says: is this the line for my welfare check?

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

a concerned mom — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:31:46 -0000

To suggest such things in the wake of such a tragedy makes you the most vile and contemptable of human beings. I suggest you see a psychiatrist to amerliorate your obvious paranoid-schizophrenic condition. bearing false witness against thy neighbor is a cardinal sin. put your politics aside, you low life anonymous coward.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

RobertRogers — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:37:27 -0000

I don't have blond hair or blue eyes. Guess you just lump me into that Aryan Nation group because I can't stand people who can't just become AMERICANS like the rest of us. I am only 3rd generation - none of my grandparents were born in this country. They came here to make a better life for themselves and their families. Work like hell to make sure their children (my parents) had a better life than they did.

They had pride in themselves.
Had pride in their neighborhoods
Respected themselves and their neighbors
FORCED their kids to speak english and not their native tongue so that they could be AMERICANS.

So, while I love my heritage and we still have unique cultures, I NEVER look at myself as anything but AMERICAN.

You on the other hand, came here like a plague of locust. Err...take that back, locust work pretty hard to wipe out a field. More like large leeches. Just keeping sucking up blood off the host. Only thing you leave behind is your excrement and a bloody wound wherever you've been.

So, have fun speaking Spanish and raising whatever flag you want to raise. Very soon, you'll be the only ones left here. Know what happens to leeches when there are no hosts left? Doubt you do...but you'll find out.

Oh...and you won't be alone here, your liberal friends like Teddy Kennedy and Deval P and John Kerry will be here to help you. N-O-T.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

RobertRogers — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:23:29 -0000

ZZZZZZZZZZz....zzzzzzzzzzzzz.....zzzzzzzzzzz

GUILTY

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Cretins of the Carribean — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:31:10 -0000

What is this rubbish? We don't blog in Polish,French or German,etc. You read the story in English,please blog in English.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Joe Dirt — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:11:56 -0000

How do you say JAIL en espanol? Comprende?

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

ShadowHawk — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:12:00 -0000

They will face the REAL WORLD, life outside of Lawrence, when that jury sits down. When you're doing "anything you want" in Lawrence you're safe from the Silent Majority. But break the law and Silent Majority will give you your punishment. Justice at last.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

66 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:46:48 -0000

Fathers?
In Lawrence?

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Unidos — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:06:20 -0000

Hispanos Unidos en los Estados Unidos, Que bello suena eso.
Escriban en espanol, Me gusta me LAWRENCE.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

twosidestoeverystory — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:52:55 -0000

Bottom line here......this mother provided a "safe" haven for underage drinkers which many, many parents do...and I include a particular city official....please, just because a parent is a city official doesn't mean they follow the law!! Their reasoning is that the kids are going to drink anyway, so it might as well be at home. Would there be more teenage deaths if this philosophy was not utilized by some parents?
At Hampton Beach, parents rent the cottages, supply the alcohol, and leave them to party away!! Is this the best way for kids to sow their wild oats and experiment with alcohol? What is the best way to handle this dilemma? Parents need to be vigilant and talk, talk, to your kids and not try to be the "hip" parent. I always tell my kids that these same situations will, someday, be theirs. In the end, the ultimate price was paid....a son was lost....no amount of should'a could'a's helps now.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

acadia_axemen — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:08:59 -0000

Yes. Rest in Peace, Ryan.

While Ryan was at St. Patrick, he came over to my house to play almost every day with my son. He trusted everyone, his ideas empowered all his teen neighborhood friends. I miss him a bundle.

Modesta Brito would learn a lesson for not able to see her kids for 90 days to be served. It is even worst for US for not able to see Ryan FOREVER!

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

vwjetta — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:21:07 -0000

In the country that has been voted the most 'free' country in the world, the place where my ancestors came here from, If you don't learn the primary language of the country (Finnish) the best job you're going to get is a cleaning job at a hotel. Despite a majority of the country being fluent in both Finnish and English, it is frowned upon not to know the language of the country. There is no welfare 'aka pop out another future criminal as young as physically possible to get free money at the expense of the tax paying citizens' so if you don't learn the language, you're going to get deported. If you immigrate to Finland, you must have a job the whole time you are there or else you will be deported.

That is how it should be here. If you don't have a job, and you can't speak the native language after several years, then YOU HAVE WORN OUT YOUR WELCOME AND YOU CAN KISS YOUR @SS GOODBYE!

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Theman — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:18:03 -0000

If someone leaves a bar s*** faced and dies your not goin to take the bar to court are you? They shouldn't have been drinking to begin with... But the kid got a ride home then TWO hours later went out. As soon as he was at his house the "host" of the party was no long responsible for him.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Buford Pusser — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:03:52 -0000

The country belongs to whomever controls it.

First the buffalo, then the "natives", then the Europeans.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Buford Pusser — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:59:57 -0000

In the United States, the parent is legally responsible for the actions of a minor child in their custody.

Are you 12?

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

How sad — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:23:08 -0000

A boy is dead. His parents are still hoping he'll walk through the door. Their lives and the lives of the rest of their family will never be the same, and Mrs. Brito spent her time trying to get away with the cdrime she committed. Does she think her son in enterprising charging friends for alcohol each weekend. Now she is pleading for no jail time. This family gets no time off from their grieving. i know.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

66 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:55:23 -0000

Dito

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Realist- in- ME — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:40:09 -0000

I find it offensive she can be a citizen and live here for years and not speak English. It is all a charade !!!!! She doen't WANT to be an American. Call me a racist. I don't care anymore. Try pulling this in Russia or China. You think they cater to you because you don't speak the language and don't want to learn ??? She turned down 3 months. I hope she gets 3 years !!!!!

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

WOWlol — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:37:39 -0000

He charged $5 \ beer? WOW where the hell he thought he was at a bar? LOL I would never go to a party where they are SELLING beer.. haha he definitely KNOWS better.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

WOWlol — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:36:33 -0000

Oh I didn't know that. So, that right there changes my thoughts completely if they drove him home and he decided to go back to the party on his own. How about HIS parents? Where were they when he got home? Why did they let him leave?

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

66 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:06:29 -0000

Ummmm, No......
Lets see here..........Hair : brown
Eyes : brown
Skin : brown
Yup, I look american !!!!!!!
It has nothing to do with what anybody looks like, it has to do with who people actually are and being proud of it.....
try this, for two days, ask everyone you know what nationality they are...........I bet most are american born americans.
then see how many actually define themselves as such. For some reason, people still define themselves as their familial heritage not by there nationality.
For the record, I am from french decent but who cares....I am American just like the majority of you. And I'm proud of it....

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

Native American — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:43:48 -0000

I dont know why, You all are so hatefull towards any other race other than blond hair and blue eyes you are all imigrants too this land belongs to the native americans. The thing is that when we die we all smell the same way.

Re: Mother, son reject plea bargain in Lawrence underage drinking case

So Distraught — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:53 -0000

Rest in Peace Ryan.

Ryan was my brothers best friend and my brother misses him like crazy. This mom should have known better than to allow this in her house. If u wanna risk the lives of her own children then fine, whatever, but dont risk the life of someone elses kids!!!