The Mother of All Keg Parties

Dustin Zebro insists he didn't throw a root beer keg party to embarrass the police. His school, yes, but not the police.

It struck him as unfair that D.C. Everest Senior High suspended students from a dance team awhile back because they were pictured on Facebook drinking out of red plastic cups that tend to signal a beer bash.

So Zebro, an 18-year-old senior, devised a plan to show that things are not always as they appear. He bought a quarter-barrel - of root beer - and a tall stack of red cups, and he spread the word that the party was at his house in Kronenwetter, a village just outside Wausau, on a Saturday night this month.

"There were keg stands and root beer pong and all that, so it looked like a real party," he said. The idea was to post photos on the Internet and fool the school, he said.

Police showed up because of a complaint about cars blocking the road, and an officer administered breath tests to 89 teens.

Every kid blew 0.0.

There was not one underage drinker in the whole place, at least on this night, because they were all consuming 1919 Classic American Draft Root Beer, brewed in Minnesota and named for the year Prohibition was enacted.

"I'm going to be so diabetic in the morning," one of the kids says on a five-minute videotape of the faux kegger that has been viewed nearly 17,000 times on YouTube.

rest of story

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And the youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfQCE2917NE&feature=related