People who do not use alcohol probably don't understand the meaning of "hard". When you stop to consider all the other stuff out there like Jolt and Red Bull and Energy X or whatever, Mike's Hard looks like just another gimmick drink pushing caffine or sugar. Remeber the day when common sense ruled and virtually anyone in that guard's situation would have said "Say friend, do you know that is an alcoholic drink?" where upon the errant parent (!) would have said "Wow! No, i didn't know. thanks for telling me,. and that would have been the end of it, except perhaps the guard would have continued to observe to make sure that it was just an honest mistake. I guess this is what you get in a over-active "Nanny State". A giant game of "Gotcha"!