Boston to ban booze during World Series?

[El Barto]

Mayor Menino wants to ban alcohol sales in Boston. (http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=50312)

Anyone think this is a good idea?


Obviously a response to this: Emerson College student dies after postgame melee (http://www.boston.com/dailynews/295/region/Emerson_College_student_dies_a:.shtml)

Which city would game 7 be in?

[benfranklin]

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Mayor Menino wants to ban alcohol sales in Boston. (http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=50312)

Anyone think this is a good idea?

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We tried this once before. It was called Prohibition, and it didn't work. The Mayor needs to spend a little more time studying history and a little less running off at the mouth. You can't legislate against stupidity.

He needs to focus on the problem. Fans drinking in bars is not the problem. The problem is the mob mentality when a bunch of them start gathering in the streets, usually after the bars close. Every fan riot I've ever heard about happened after the crowd crossed over into property destruction and the police moved in. If the city had an intelligent proactive plan to prevent street crowds, instead of waiting to react to violence, these riots would not happen.

[Sponger15SB]

What a stupid stupid stupid idea. You think that there would be more outrage to prohibition or 1 death?

hmmmm

Also if I were 21+ and lived in boston, I'd go straight to a bar to watch the game, and this sure puts a damper on a good plan.

And if I'm not mistaken, aren't most colleges dry campus'. Why would he want to ban alcohol when it should already be not allowed.

The best part of the article was when they used the word "mowed down" to describe a guy getting hit by a car.

[Toro]

You think Menino is extreme? Back in the 1960's there was wild partying, some would say rioting, up in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire and a girl got killed. Alcohol was then prohibited and to my knowledge that town has been "dry" ever since.

[Neil Stevens]

Maybe they're afraid of drunken fans causing a forfeit, as we saw in LA not too many years ago.

[Blarg]

There's no need to ban booze. Just ban the Irish.




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