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A 22-year-old Long Island gymnastic coach was charged with unlawfully dealing with a child and endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly giving a 14-year-old student a bottle of Malibu Rum. Steven Lamensdorf apparently gave the teen the rum as a "reward" for executing a difficult move. The teen drank so much of the rum that she had to go to the ER WCBS 2's Lou Young (who explains,"The coconut-flavored booze is popular among underage drinkers because it's sweet") got a statement from Lamensdorf's boss at Spins Gymnastics Academy: "He has said he got pressured into it by being repeatedly asked and thought if I do it this once it will be over and done with. He had a momentary, absolutely bizarre lapse in judgment." Still, a parent said, "He should've known better, he's the adult."

Who said preteens don't know how to party? Oh that's right—nobody. Well, a few Connecticut middle schoolers really stepped up to the plate and turned their school bus into a booze cruise on wheels, selling mixed drinks to the other students on board for two dollars each. The Norwalk tween trio used juice, iced tea and Gatorade as mixers, but there was no confirmation of our suspicion that Miley Cyrus thermoses were turned into shakers. School officials are playing party patrol and disciplining the students without police intervention after being tipped off by parents. They claim that none of the students on board the party bus became intoxicated. Which makes us wonder: have these kids already built up a preteen tolerance or were these drinks watered down, thus officially making the junior bartenders the greatest young entrepreneurs since the Olsen twins?

You know a story is going to be good (as in crazy) when it starts "It's a story as old as the drinking laws: A teenage girl convinces a man to buy her a bottle of alcohol." And that's how an article in the Staten Island Advance starts - and it keeps getting better. The leader of a S.I. civic association! Her 21-year-old son! A drunk 14-year-old - and the girl's angry mother! Frank Ammirato,...