She raised her own drink and finished it off in answer to his statement, which wasn't wrong at all. The number of stupid things she'd seen kids do when they got some cheap booze was substantial. Sometimes they survived it unharmed. Sometimes they didn't. Sometimes the cops got involve, just like Jim was saying.

"Except here, maybe you only get the ridiculous stuff. Investigating why ... there's suddenly a rash of robberies by little gingerbread men or something."

It could happen around Christmas.