Cop Bolts "Loud Amish Party" After Facing Cussing Amish Kids

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Last weekend, a deputy sheriff left the scene of a rowdy Amish party after being confronted by dozens of cussing, drinking youths.

"We're waiting for this weekend," the sheriff said.

Altiere said his department has a new directive, should problems arise.

"I gave these guys orders: If they ever encounter that again, you call out everyone you can get hold of — Geauga, Ashtabula, Portage counties, and our own people — and just arrest everybody they catch drinking underage and causing a disturbance," Altiere said.

"We'll find the room. I don't care if we've got to put up tents in the parking lot."

He said people shouldn't assume that his department, trimmed by layoffs this year, has no punch.

Last weekend's party

Officer Milton Kellerman reported Sunday that he'd gone overnight to 10051 Creaser Road in Bloomfield Township in response to a complaint about a "loud Amish party."

He saw 200 to 300 people at the party, which included "lots of alcohol and kids running around," a barn "jampacked" with kids drinking beer and youths breaking bottles in the driveway.

No one would cooperate with the officer who, at one point, said he was surrounded by about 25 kids. The young people swore at him; Kellerman returned to his cruiser and left.

"Can you blame him?" Altiere asked, saying the deputy did nothing wrong by leaving.

The sheriff's department has a contract with a handful of the northern Trumbull townships for Kellerman to patrol, seven days a week, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.

"This is the first time that's ever happened," Altiere said of his deputy's encountering such a large rowdy bunch and leaving. "He knows we're low on manpower. I think, if he had it to do over again, he would have called for mutual aid."

The sheriff said he doesn't believe the situation would have gotten so far out of control as to endanger Kellerman's life.

The sheriff contends that because of budget concerns and layoffs, he can't afford to put extra people on duty for the weekends. Deputies who used to patrol the roads have been staffing the jail in downtown Warren, and some floors there have been closed.

The sheriff can, however, quickly call out as many as 10 of the county's deputies, as well as rely on other departments. Champion police, for example, are in the vicinity.

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want to put on some Amish duds and crash the party? Now, THAT would be funny!

Maybe the cops could threaten to put buttons on their clothes, or make them use the phone, or something.

We could go there and pretend to be agents of Satan!
Warren is about 1/2 hour away, we might just have to do that...

Or do a select few play banjo and mouth harp?

Amish Theology states that each individual has to choose to join the community at adulthood. Young men (I don't think that the young women get this option) are given a year or so without either the restrictions of childhood, or of adult Amish life.

Amish parties can be some of the most rocking imaginable.

And then they go wild. It's definitely hardrock/punk. Years of frustration are released so it's a Motörhead audience.

Thou wouldst do well to begone from these parts.

An Amish has to decide as an adult to follow the life. So they live as Amish, but around 18 they have some free time to decide what they want to do, and they have freedom to do what they want while they make up their mind. If they choose to follow the faith, they don't have anything held against them for what they did during that time.

It was actually pretty fascinating. These parties they throw are HUGE, we're talking several state's worth of kids.

Forget everything you know about the Amish. When they get their moment of free at 18 then they make a frat party look like boring accountants.