(root)beer

KRONENWETTER, Wis. - A root beer keg party hosted by a Kronenwetter, Wis., high school student attracted police who suspected underage drinking at the shindig. Dustin Zebro, 18, said the idea for the root beer party was cooked up to mock school administrators who suspended some of his friends from sports after they were caught drinking, the Wausau (Wis.) Daily Herald reported Monday. The party displayed enough similarities to parties with the root beer keg's alcoholic counterparts that police showed up to administer breath tests to the rowdy high school-age party-goers. However, every reveler tested was found to be free of alcohol. "We didn't know it would work well enough to make the cops show up," Zebro said. The student said he and his friends believe that underage drinking off school grounds is a matter to be handled by police, not school officials. However, Principal Tom Johansen defended the school's actions. "I think we have an obligation as an educational institution" to investigate underage drinking and mete out penalties, he said.