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The Phone Call That Never Should Have Been Answered It was a Saturday night in North Huntingdon, and your son or daughter was supposed to be at a friend’s house. The call came anyway. Or worse — the call never came at all. Instead, a Pennsylvania State Police trooper knocked on your door, and a Westmoreland County deputy followed, and the words that came out of their mouths will live in the bones of your house for the rest of your life. On March 31, 2024, two Norwin High School students — Adam J. Bilinsky, 19, and Colin Bargiel, 16 — left a house party on a dirt bike that ended in a concrete culvert on Ridge Road. The 16-year-old had a blood alcohol level of 0.028%, above Pennsylvania’s Zero Tolerance threshold of 0.02% for minors under Pennsylvania Vehicle Code § 3802(e). They were missing for more than a day before anyone found them. The families have now filed separate wrongful death lawsuits in the Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas against the adults who allegedly let the drinking happen, against the parents of the teen who allegedly used a fake Ohio driver’s license to buy the liquor, and against…