Underage drinking happens.
Kids get older siblings or friends to buy beer or booze for them -- or steal from their parents’ liquor cabinets.
It's usually something parents worry about and try to prevent.
Usually.
So what about parents who let their teen-ager hold parties at home -- and provide the alcohol?
Really. Some things you can't make up.
A Mount Lebanon couple is facing charges after a party at their house in early October.
When police crashed the place, teen-agers scattered in every direction.
Officers found nine more kids in the basement, amid all the beer bottles and cans -- and some pot.
The parents -- a doctor and his wife -- thought nothing was wrong.
They seem to think it's fine that their son hosts "alcohol parties" because he's drinking and doing drugs at home.
They think it's okay to let other people's children drink. They claim none of the kids were allowed to drive home drunk.
Allowing a bunch of kids to get drunk and high in your basement isn't keeping them safe. It isn't teaching them responsibility, self-control or accountability.
It's dangerous, dumb and enough to give every parent -- every REAL parent -- nightmares.
The good doctor and his wife are charged with giving alcohol to minors and corruption of minors.
It's a shame they can't be charged with stupidity.
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