NO, I definitely do not think it fair to punish the parents of a 24 year old man. Parents are no longer "responsible" under law for actions of adult children. Compare it to giving my mother a speeding ticket because I borrowed her car and was doing 75 in a 55 zone. Not Fair. tyvm

I admit it's too bad the parents have to suffer for their son's illegal drug dealing. At the same time it is the son and only the son who brought this on the parents

i dont think they should be punished for there sons actions...i think it is crazy that people would even allow that because oviusly the parents didnt know about the drugs and what the cars were being used for so no i think in this case they shouldnt be.

what happens if someone gets busted driving a rental car? drug is a good word to describe what happens, everyone gets drug into it. when the user runs out of money they usually have no problem putting everyone at risk. in this case its a hunch the parents knew the kid had a problem, even if they didnt ignorance is no excuse. the parents need to write off the loss and count thier luckey stars that somehow thier home didnt get confiscated too, kick the kid to the curb or rehab and call it a day.

The law clearly states that a vehicle used while dealing drugs can be taken and sold by the police. No where does it state that they will only take the car of the person who was dealing. It says that they will take the car being used. If you let your best friend borrow your car and they are transporting drugs with it and get caught......they will take your car. It is really quite simple and to think that it is too harsh to take the parents car is just misguided. What the hell did the parents think their unemployed, previously arrested for drugs kid was doing? Going to church??? Please.

I guess a good question would be..., were the parents really oblivious to their sons activities. Were they really that negligent in watching what their adult son was doing, or were they reaping the rewards either in drugs or money from their son. If they were in on it and not stupid, then they should lose it all, yet if they were naieve, then the son goes to jail and if the car was involved in the drug activity it should go also

If you let someone use your car, then you are responsible for what happens in it. Parents need to take more responsibility for their children and how they raised them. What is this "kid" doing using his parents vehicles?

Drug forfeiture laws were enacted to seize property paid for with drug profits. Law enforcement agencies misuse the laws in cases like this. What if he sold drugs on a public bus? In a rental car? Twisting the law to legally steal personal property is not what the law was meant for.

The system has once again demonstrated a double standard. There was recently a large cannibis grow,valued at several million dollars, destroyed in Marion County,Or. The plants were growing on land owned by the Weyerhauser company. No one has even mentioned confiscating anything from the Weyerhausers. Are we all being subjected to laws based upon greed instaed of right and wrong?

The seizure law has due process where the parents and their attorney will be heard. The question that will determine the outcome is whether the parents had knowledge the vehicles were being used by their son for drug dealing. The fact that they are the parents is irrelevant. This could just as easily be a friend of the drug dealer.

Punish the parents? I grew wary of the increasing double standards of our laws in Washington State in the 70's, when I learned that my 16-year-old daughter could have an abortion without my permission, but if she stole or destroyed property I was monetarily responsible until she was eighteen or emancipated. While neither of these were my personal problem,our laws have increasingly demonstrated the protection of corporations (see the Weyerhauser comment on this subject posted earlier in the day) and principalities. The incursion upon the freedoms of the dwindling middle class, such as these parents who loaned their vehicle to their child, only tells me that Big Brother is growing stronger and stronger. Our laws should protect the innocent, not seize their property.

Please, These parents were enableing their 24 year old son to use the car for his illegal activity. He's 24, no job, been arrested a number of times, still living in their home and they are letting him use "their" car, even though his license was suspended!!! What did they think he needed a car for. What if he would have hit and killed someone in "their" car that they were letting him use.

I think this is absurd!! Doesn't the law state that we are adults and responsible for our own actions at the age of 18. These parents should not be held responsible for his actions. They probably don't have any money to buy a new car and what about what they owe on these. Like the kid is going to pay them back?!?!? What a misguided use of our system. Give big brother more power and rope and he'll use them both to hang anyone they can get. Wait til something like this happens in your family and I bet you will change your prospective. Until then you better learn to live a lonely and separate life so you don't get drug into something your unaware of. The lesson in this__Don't trust others: friends or family and never lend them anything and you better stay away from them or you might just have big brother take all your things and too bad for you! What's next your house, bank account. Look out because that's not that far fetched. Doesn't promote loving and helping each other, rather a cold caloused look at life!! What a shame!

beware who you loan your car to...dah...anyone ever hear of guilt by association? Used to tell my teenagers that all the time...

The spirit of the law is to seize property purchased with drug profits, not to increase the municipality's coffers under the guise of making an example out of the family for not doing a better job of raising their son. Shame on all the public servants involved for not understanding that. Shame on our legislators for not writing laws in clear language so they can't be deliberately misconstrued.

Reality check time!

These people were NOT "punished" because they were the parents of a drug dealer.
Vehicles used to deliver drugs are subject to forfeiture no matter who owns them. In this case the owners of the vehicle had ample notice it was being used unlawfully. They allowed this to continue. Their relationship to the offender is not a factor.

Were the vehicles confiscated as a sentence imposed for conviction of a crime? I saw no mention of trial or conviction in the short article. No penalty should be imposed on anyone unless their guilt has been proven in a court of law or the alleged criminal has pled guilty. Was the son found guilty of a crime after due process? Were the parents? If not, this confiscation does not seem to me to meet the American constitional standard for imposing a penalty.

when the police, the courts, the judges and the F,B.I. think they can punish anybody and everybody for the actions of one person. that is why we had what we had in Waco and Oklahoma city. Just because those idiots wears a badge doesn't mean that have any common sense. Law enforcement should make sure they don't piss off the wrong person, because a few people don't give a damm what they do.

Of course the parents are responsible & should be responisble!His parents are the ones that taught him their values & ethics, which let him become who he is today. This is a great example of "absent parenting" I would be ashamed if I had no idea my kid was into drugs of this magnitude especially. Because that means I wasn't paying attention to the most important thing in my life, my kids! Either that or I'm in denial! It is time for parents to start paying for their children, instead of society. Thank you courts for this ruling.

Of course these people, parents or not, should be held accountable for their actions. Do you really think that they had NO IDEA what their grown son was doing? They were assisting in an illegal activity. Would he have stopped dealing without the car...probably not. Would he have been slowed down...probably. How can we all complain about drugs and refuse to hold ALL involved accountable??!!