WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg. Drinking games inside.
Police spotted what they thought was an underage drinking party and made dozens of teens take a Breathalyzer test. None tested positive for alcohol.
This was a root-beer kegger hosted by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don't always drink alcohol at their parties. It has gained fame on the Internet site YouTube, where thousands have watched a five-minute video of police testing the teens.
Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at D.C. Everest High School got suspended from sports because of pictures showing them drinking from red cups.
The root-beer kegger was "to kind of make fun of the school," he said. "They assumed there was beer in the cups. We just wanted to have some root beer in red cups and just make it look like a party, but there actually wasn't any alcohol."
Zebro purchased a quarter-barrel of 1919 Classic American Draft Root Beer from a local grocery store and by 10 p.m. on a Saturday night, the scene outside his rural Wausau home had all the makings of a teen drinking party -- cars, noise and kids.
Kronenwetter Police Chief Daniel Joling said an officer was dispatched to the home March 1 on an anonymous complaint of cars blocking the roadway, and he determined seven had to be moved.
The officer called a wrecker after he knocked on the door to Zebro's home and no one answered, Joling said. Juveniles began coming out of the house after the officer used his squad car's loud speaker to warn that cars would soon be towed, Officer Jason Rasmussen wrote in his report on the incident.
All received breath tests -- nearly 90 of them.
Zebro's mother, Ruth, then allowed officers into the home, where they even searched locked rooms for hiding teens.
The video on YouTube shows merrymaking at the party and some teens taking breath tests. It had been viewed about 19,000 times by Friday afternoon.
"You blew that like a pro," someone hollers in one of the scenes. In another, the officer giving the test can be seen smiling too.
