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Club manager: Life would be a lot simpler without foreign students

Rumor, on Warrenton Street, had to explain to the Boston Licensing Board why it was cited by police for having a customer smoking inside during an inspection on July 3 and why a 19-year-old was allowed to get a drink before slipping on a step and cracking his head open on July 20.

Club manager Tom Montgomery blamed the difficulties of catering to foreign students.

"There's a certain clientele, it seems like their whole purpose is to smoke," he said, estimating 90% of his security staff's time is spent dealing not with drunks but with smokers. "It's a difficult task. We've barred people, kicked them out ... Whatever we do, it is just an impossible situation." He estimated Rumor has 20 signs both inside and outdoors warning that smoking is banned.

BPD Sgt. Robert Mulvey, however, said Rumor stands out among Boston clubs as a place where he finds people smoking inside.

Montgomery was at a loss to explain how a doorman, whom he called an excellent long-term employee, let in a 19-year-old with an expired and altered Venezuelan passport on July 20. The kid might have gotten away with it, except he slipped, hit the back of his head and wound up "lying on his back in a pool of blood," which resulted in police and EMTs being called, according to a police account.

Board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer said the ease with which he got in with a bum passport concerned her; the club said it has changed its policies and will no longer accept expired documents of any sort.

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I work on this street and it is a madhouse every night these clubs are open. It is also impossible to walk down the sidewalk because they set up barriers and don't allow pedestrians by which forces you to the other side which there are no doormen and it is just littered with smoking club goers OR to the street filled with probably drunk drivers with their music blaring, blocking traffic. The theater district would be a better place without them.

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without foreign students, as few of those nightclubs would likely stay in business.

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The club manager, Tom Montgomery, calls Rumor employees "the best trained staff in the city".
LOL

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but they can expire as a drivers license. The expiration of the passport had nothing to do with him being allowed into the club. This legal ineptitude is inexcusable.

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Try getting through security at the airport with an expired drivers license. You won't even make it to the pat down.

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Do what I do: Show 'em your passport card if you have one. Federal ID > something the DMV printed up.

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My previous supposition holds for passports too, professor.

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I usually travel with my passport, even for domestic flights. I was getting a late seat assignment for a Chicago flight, when the agent asked me why I handed him a passport instead of a license. SO ... I handed him my license.

A piece of paper with a print out of my new license. Standard issue MA temporary when you have just renewed.

Then he asked "Where is your REAL license?". I handed him the plastic one, which had expired the day before.

"Passport it is!".

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Most people renew their passports and licenses when they expire, so an expired ID probably means that it isn't their real ID, it's probably a friend's old passport.

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Not according to M.G.L Ch. 148 § 34B:

Any licensee, or agent or employee thereof, under this chapter who reasonably relies on such a liquor purchase identification card or motor vehicle license issued pursuant to section eight of chapter ninety, or on a valid passport issued by the United States government, or by the government, recognized by the United States government, of a foreign country, or a valid United States issued military identification card, for proof of a person’s identity and age shall not suffer any modification, suspension, revocation or cancellation of such license, nor shall he suffer any criminal liability, for delivering or selling alcohol or alcoholic beverages to a person under twenty-one years of age.

http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/Part...

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I would submit that an expired passport is not a valid passport. I would further argue that it is not reasonable to rely on an expired document, as the expiration thereof means that the issuing authority no longer warrants that it is effective or valid.

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