Observations Vol. IX

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By Chris Cosci

Beer. Marijuana. Stripper. What do these words bring to mind? A wild bachelor party? A Cheech & Chong movie? Another Monday for Woody Harrelson?

Well, for a high school football team in Chappaqua, NY, these words meant a celebration for completing summer training for the team. After receiving a noise complaint, police arrived at the home of a high school teenager and his friends (as young as 15 years old) to find a stripper naked, on her back, and performing "lewd sexual acts." These acts were part of an hour-long show that the stripper was paid $325 to perform, which included letting these teenagers lick whipped cream off of her body. I bet for an extra $50, she would have added some chocolate sauce.

So, where would a woman be stripping for underage teenagers? In the living room? In a bedroom? No. How about outside on the patio? Of course! They could have held the party on the roof, but that would just be stupid.

And the parents? They were there, fully aware of what was going on! Most parents would probably have a conniption if their children even heard about a party like this. However, these parents allowed their son and his friends to hang out on the patio, get drunk, smoke illegal drugs, and lick dairy products off of a woman they don't know.

There is no sign of intelligence in this scenario. The parents were stupid. The kids were stupid. Even the stripper was stupid. Come on. I don't care how desperate you are for money. You have sunk pretty low when you are willing to take your clothes off for a bunch of teenagers.

You might expect that these parents are hippies or free spirits or maybe even convicts. The truth, though, is that the father, 50, is an investment banker and the mother, 48, is a massage therapist. We are talking about working adults who should know better.

Who was arrested? It wasn't the stripper. She was just doing what she was paid to do, even if she should have had more sense that to do it for underage kids. It wasn't the kids. They were just stupid and just doing what their parents allowed them to do. It was the parents.

This is great because it was the parents who were responsible. This isn't one of those cases where the parents were ignorant to what was going on. They were around and condoned the illegal behaviors of their son and his friends. To sit by while their own son did these things is bad enough. However, to allow all of these children to do it was stupid, careless, and entirely thoughtless. I'm pretty sure that the other teenagers' parents were not aware of everything that was happening. And I'm also pretty sure that some of these parents are furious that the people they trusted to supervise their children let them take part in these activities.

So, what have we learned here? For one thing, parents can be arrested for being irresponsible. Secondly, if you're going to have a party out on your patio with teenagers drinking, doing drugs, and watching a stripper, try not to be too noisy and disturb your neighbors. And most importantly, you can get a stripper who will let you lick whipped cream off of her for just $325 an hour. And if that's not something to take away from this, I don't know what is.