WINONA, Minn. – A14-year-old girl admitted passing rum around to companions on the school bus on the ride to school. One of her friends still had a trace of alcohol in her blood – 0.001% — when police did a breath check 3-1/2 hours later. The girl who brought the rum on the bus said she had poured it into a metal tumbler from a bottle at home. She denied drinking any herself. Police could still whiff the rum in the tumbler and cited the girl as a minor in possession. Two other girls, both 14, admitted to sampling the rum. One of them, however, didn’t show any alcohol in her system. The other girl, with the 0.001% test, was cited for minor consumption .The parents were called to the high school for an uncomfortable discussion.
