Patrolling citizens save cold teenager

Anyone else notice the irony that this wasted kid was found a stone(r)s throw from Detox??

Hope the kid gets properly disciplined, although I doubt it.

Good work guys! Nice to know we have people looking out for us and our Children.

Thanks to your good work and fast actions! Can’t thank you enough!

Shame on you Thomas. It is the parents responsibility to be watching out for their children. Therefore the parents should be disciplined, though the boy still needs some schooling in the matter for sure. But why did he become intoxicated is the question that begs to be asked…

I commend the actions of the Citizens on patrol for providing this service for the community of Whitehorse.  It is common practice that teenage children in Whitehorse have easy access to alcohol and there are many individuals who are willing to purchase alcohol for minors.  This is a wake up call for all service providers to take this issue seriously and also begin taking proactive approach to alcohol issues with children.

Its an unfortunate even, but 14 years old? Wheres the parents? People get themselves into this situations, use your brain next time.

Ha ha Thomas Brewer I’m glad someone pointed that out, it is quite ironic. Hopefully the ordeal alone will help the kid to realize that drinking like that isn’t such a blast.

DISCIPLINED??? How about HELP!!!
Everyone now a days goes on discpline,when what some people need is help. Maybe start listening to the kids, or even doing things with them sothey are not left alone to drink or party or even do the drugs. Maybe it should be the parents that need some more guidance on how to keep up with their children now adays as thats how they were brought up and so now the kids are following in the parents footsteps. who’s problem is this?? EVERYONES!!!!

Thanks to the volunteer patrol who found him, But here we go again Drinking
was at the bottom of things. And, Again
Where were his Parents? Drinking themselves?

How can you say /he/ needs to be disciplined? What about his parents, or the person who bought him alcohol in the first place? Clearly what this boy needs is guidance, and loving and caring support. There’s far too much alcohol abuse in the Yukon and not enough being done to help people—especially young people who turn to it in order to “fix” problems or to entertain themselves. From what I’ve seen, without a lot of healthy support and positive outlets for children, the Yukon is a very toxic place to grow up.

Just what we need.  A bunch of amateur cops sticking their noses where they don’t belong.

Teenagers are going to try and sneak out and get drunk, it’s a known fact. The social acceptance of alcohol, not to mention the glamorous booze commercials, make kids think it’s cool and fun. They don’t realize that maturity is a key factor in being safe and knowing your limits. Parents know that teenagers are going to start sneaking out, they should be trying to regulate it a bit better but it is hard as kids lie and parents want to trust their children.

You can’t really punish the parents as they were probably under the impression that this young man was staying over at a trusted friends house or something like that. What we need to do is educate youth better on the down side of drinking and show them that it’s not as cool as they think it is.

There is a problem with the way families function now. Parents are too busy to trully take care of and raise their kids AND if they try to do any discipline, they get reported to Family and Children Services as being abusive. And I am not meaning beating kids, I mean, parents have lost their rights to be parents to their children and in turn have lost interest. They settle for trying to be the child’s friend- and we know that you can’t raise a child by being their friend. You have to parent the child. Children nowadays don’t show any respect, are lazy and think everything should come to them on a silver platter. I remember that I wasn’t afraid of my parents, but afraid of their disappointment if I misbehaved. Kids don’t have that now. They don’t have to work in school to pass, they can stand around and chat at their jobs, live at home for nothing forever and still things given to them. It doesn’t teach them anything. Things have to change and parents have to get back their rights to parent the children… can you imagine what the workplace will be like in 20 years?? Our generation will have to continue working because the next generation won’t know how!

Thomas…..do you remember being a teenager?  I think we’ve all tried underage drinking with varying results.  I’m willing to bet he was so hung over he vowed to ‘never drink again’ like many of us have.

Next time he’ll be aware of his limits.

wayne, poor poor atttide dude.

Hats off to the c.o.p.s program for saving the young kids life, hopefully he got a lashing from his parents when they picked him up.

as a father myself of a young child, i am scared about my son ever being in this situation, but hell we were kids once and every parent knows, our kids dont tell us everything that goes on in there lives, nor can we enforce that.

If i had my way i would put a beacon device on my son

Our jobs as parents are to teach them about right and wrong, and unfortunalty our children will learn the hard way if they do wrong.

When i was a teenager, it was cool to be around your friends, have a few brewskies and have fun
times havent changed now that im an oldtimer

I propose a statue of this kid to be made and immortalized in Pioneer cemetery.

Thank you to the citizens on patrol who found this young man.  I am certain his parents, his family and his community is thankful.  I believe youth need to understand the dangers of drinking and hypo-thermia.  Knowing the signs and symptoms are similar in nature may help the youth to understand when one of their buddies are in danger.  This may also help them understand how to avoid the dangers.  I know many youth today who are intellegent, creative and generally easy going. They are open to learning and they need to feel they can safely report a friend in need.  They need to trust us parents, adults and community.

I just don’t understand how stories like this or that stupid dog get lots of comments but issues like giving corporations the right to vote or having a first nation legislate gender roles gets virtually ignored.

We might has well just hand the whole thing back to the federal government and be ruled by a bureaucrat again because the citizens certainly do not care.