The Strawman Cometh
This is where it starts to get fun; brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor, north vs south kind of fun. That’s right folks, as if we didn’t see this coming, more booze fueled news in today’s T&G! In this weeks episode we find three middle-aged schmucks from Marlboro arrested for drinking Coors Light in the Green Hill Park parking lot. The real crime, possession of Coors Light, is over looked in favor of the more fashionable charge of possession of an open container. Already the foes of public drinking (from this point forward to be known as ‘Team Batshitinsane’ are claiming these arrests are proof of how the city has no control over the golf course and therefore drinking can not be allowed. What in the name of Sam Adams are these people talking about? What school of broken logic did Team Batshitinsane graduate from? If anything this proves that people from Marlboro have shitty taste in beer. It also shows that each and every concern Team Batshitinsane holds is baseless if anytime they see questionable behavior they can just ring up the POPO and order will be restored in no time.
The money quote from today’s article comes to us courtesy of Mr Brian McCarthy, who appears to be a new recruit for Team BSI:
Brian P. McCarthy, who lives on Marsh Avenue, said neighbors of the golf course took pictures of the arrest and noticed beer cans and alcohol bottles stuffed in the course’s trash bins.
He and other neighbors also walked along the “dry” course during the tournament and say they saw alcohol in several carts.
“It was out of control,” he said. Some of the players had coolers in the parking lot, he said.
I don’t want to downplay Mr McCarthy’s idea of ‘out of control’, but until I see Rick Rushton driving a golf cart through the park like Johnny Knoxville in ‘Jackass the Movie’, I’m gonna say things are perfectly under control.
Give me libations or give me death!
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Really. If they were allowed to sell beer, you wouldn’t have people drinking in the parking lot. They’d be chilling at the clubhouse or a patio outside it. If they sold beer, they’d have money to opick up the litter around the course. Also, there’s no guarantee that the empties were from players–they were just as likley from neighborhood teenagers drinking at the course after hours.
If you sold beer to players, they wouldn’t need to bring cololers, and you could prohibit outside alcohol and even have money (and a big incentive) to police the “no outside beverages” policy. You also have the power to not “overserve” rowdy players.
That said, I still don’t think it’s the best idea to allow alcohol sales in public parks, at least untilt here is a solid plan to police it and prevent outside alcohol from coming in.