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Carver Police Say "Tragedy" Averted After Teenage Binge Drinking

CARVER (CBS) - A Carver teenager ended up in the hospital this week with hypothermia and alcohol poisoning after drinking in the woods all afternoon.

The 14-year-old boy's friend stole alcohol from his parents' liquor cabinet, poured it into water bottles, and brought it to high school.

After school, he and two friends walked into some nearby woods, and drank.  At some point, they moved their party to another spot behind the public library in town.

WBZ-TV's Christina Hager reports from Carver.

At about 5:30, police got a 9-1-1 call from a mother. "I have a teenager with alcohol poisoning," she said.  The boy's friends had called her in a panic because he had passed out.   "He's unresponsive," she told police.

"That young man is very lucky," says Carver Police Chief Mike Miksch.  "His body temperature was very low.  Had someone left him in the woods, or had they not called sooner, we could have really been looking at a tragedy."

He had consumed 15 shots of hard alcohol, and his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit. Police say his two friends were also dangerously drunk.

All three are now facing charges in the juvenile system.  Police say they are notifying the registry of motor vehicles, which may eventually delay their efforts to get learner's permits and driver's licenses.

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