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Kenmore Square, Garden area to become 'restricted access' zones on Super Bowl Sunday
By adamg on Fri, 01/26/2018 - 10:15am
As has become usual in the City of Champions, Boston Police will once again set up cordons around the two sports-focused areas to prevent any massive knuckleheadedness, this time at the end of the third quarter of the Super Bowl.
After the third quarter, police will restrict access to the areas, blocking roads and banning parking on them. And people parked in parking garages in these "restricted access" zones won't be able to leave until after police determine the area is safe.
Harvard Avenue in Allston could also become a "restricted access" zone depending on how things go that night.
In a memo distributed to the owners of all the city's drinking establishments this week, the Boston Licensing Board added all bars need to be especially vigilant - and is asking owners to bar re-entry to anybody who leaves during the game.
Bars and clubs, the board wrote, need to be especially careful to not exceed capacity. And places that normally allow lines outside when they've reached capacity inside are being asked to instead shoo away people waiting outside. "You must be proactive in this regard, and disperse lines when it is apparent you will reach capacity," the board wrote.
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Have the parade in Foxborough
Have the parade in Foxborough this time.
I don't mind having the parade in Boston
What I do mind is the City's unwillingness to hold the parade on a day and time when it will minimize the impact to those people that don't care one bit about the ego fest and are just trying to go to and from and work or otherwise trying to get on with their normal activities.
And the
excusesreasons given every time are enough to cause anybody's BS meter to go off-scale. Every other city that's had similar victory parades has managed to hold them at a date and time of their choosing instead of this "it must be no later that two days after the game" idiocy that Boston always seems to fall for every time.it is because the players
want to get out of town ASAP to go back home, golf in florida, beach in the caribbean. they aren't going to hang around for a parade the following weekend.
Yeah
Devoted fans spend tons of money, take time off work, and generally worship the team. They wear the team clothing, name their pets after players, and stress during the game.
But the players can't be bothered to delay their off session by a few days in thanks? What ungrateful assholes.
Oh yeah, real assholes
That work their tails off and do nothing but win while we sit on our couches enjoying the beauty that is victory. I don't particularly care about millionaires getting max vacation time, but if anyone is an ungrateful asshole, it's you.
Can't make the parade (if we have one) this year? Tough, most people can't. Good news is there will likely be another one before you know it.
If you don't like the way they do victory parades here, move to Cleveland or Detroit and you won't have to worry about many victory laps.
Wait a second
Cleveland knows how to do a parade to honor their football team. In fact, the fans weren't bothered by the fact that none of the players made it to the parade, which was held the week-end following the end of their season.
Oh, cool
So, the private business is supposed to be tasked with telling people not to congregate on a public sidewalk? Then why is anybody paying for this police force?
It's not people congregating.
It's not people congregating. It's lines to get in, organized by the bars themselves.
Fun fact about bars
They are not police departments. If I'm standing on a public sidewalk, and you tell me to move, and you don't have a gun, there's a chance I'm not moving if I don't want to.
Funner fact
When you apply for a liquor license in Boston, you have to agree to abide by rules set by the licensing board, and that includes keeping the sidewalk in front of your establishment nice and orderly.
And if you fail in that task, another rule requires you to call 911 and request police assistance.
I know you don't like any rules set by the licensing board, but it's not like this should come as any great surprise to establishments that pay several thousand dollars a year (and possibly paid well over six figures at the start) for the right to serve alcohol.
Et tu, Gaffin?
Citing the rule of law: Put a dollar in the jar.
The Jar
It's not a jar for bringing up the law, it's a jar for how often you get owned by this and it's overflowing.
The bars chose to enter a voluntary contract saying they will handle lines outside the bar. It's a voluntary law. If you don't agree with it, don't sign up for a liquor license.
Not to mention you cite the rule of law over and over again.
Stop breaking the law (explitive!)
Stop breaking the law (explitive!)
http://www.universalhub.com/2017/dorchester-man-charged-trying-blow-poli...
A voluntary law?
Are you a moron?
If I play the Liar, Liar card, it's because I agree with the law that's being broken. When I don't agree with the law, I state as such.
But hey, you got to parrot the post right above yours! Swing your partner, do-se-do!
Correct
The law only applies to people who volunteered to sign up for a liquor license. Government didn't force the bars to sign up for a license, so you are volunteering for that law being enforced with your ink on the license contract.
Maybe they should stop breaking the law, (explitive.)
You are the one who is always dancing around it. You ignore counterpoint after counterpoint and then stop responding once you don't have anything left.
Yeah
And nobody forced government to make a Boston Licensing Board exist. Doot doot doot...
Wrong Again
Boston is representative Democracy. If the will of the people feel the Licensing Board is too strict, they can vote on it and vote it out.
Clearly, they are not on your side about this.
Not really, not directly
The licensing board is not elected, so if you don't like how they operate, you'd have to replace the person who appoints its members - the mayor.
You literally comment weekly
You literally comment weekly on stories about the BPD and how there’s “too many cops”. Now you want them to be bouncers, block streets AND protect all the neighborhoods in one night.
I don't want them to be bouncers
The private sector already does that.
The problem is when government tells private enterprise that they have to do the work of government when I'm already paying government to do work. People waiting in line outside of a bar was not a problem until the Licensing Board said it was one in this memo.
As for "too many cops," maybe there are. I seldom use them. Who are they protecting, and what are those people being protected from?
When I read a story about a cop busting up a massage parlor, unless he's there because somebody tipped him off about human trafficking or a minor, I think "overstaffed." When I read a story about a cop choking a guy to death for selling individual cigarettes, I think "overstaffed." When I get pulled over by a cop for turning right on a yellow turning red without having impeded the legal progress of any car or pedestrian, I think "overstaffed."
I can't speak for Will, but
I can't speak for Will, but there's nothing mutually exclusive about:
a) Complaining there are too many government thugs and parasites;
b) Complaining that the ones that there are won't even do their jobs and demand that private citizens or businesses do their jobs for them.
Willie - you always lead with your chin..
Some days you show up as merely a contrarian, other days as a misanthrope - mostly, you are basically a garden-variety internet troll. What is extraordinarily interesting is the fact that you carry no portfolio. You're just a kid trying to find his way in life - you can't get there on merit so you seek out attention via negative behavior.
Look at your life and what you have accomplished - nada, nothing, zilch. You barely work and when you do it is at a semi-skilled levels, your sole education achievement is that you graduated from high school, your occupational success is that you worked for tips at bars hosting trivia games - in short, you've done pretty much nothing of an importance or of contributory value.
Yet you get on this and other boards offering nothing more than tired, long discredited, libertarian views on subjects you really don't much about, The fact is, If you disappeared, no one would care nor probably even notice.
By the way, before claiming to pay for the police, how about getting a regular job (that lasts longer than a few months) where you actually pay taxes - better yet, own some property requiring you to pay real estate taxes (thus giving some legitimacy to your claim you have skin in the game with regard to funding government services).
Do you view me favorably?
I'm not clear on this.
EDIT: As for your actual claims, what do you care? Are you sleeping with me? So what if I didn't attend school past high school or that I work temp jobs?
I've "accomplished nothing?" I've built a bar trivia franchise, I cashed a five figure horse ticket in 2009, and I've traded stocks quite well. I could buy education, but I'm not going to pull that money out of the market right now. I'm not going to buy a house, because those are overvalued. I'd rather wait for others to pass away from old age and/or get kicked out when they can't pay with their magic beans like in 2008.
My health is excellent, and I'm a smart guy. I'm treading water, but I'm not drowning in the water. And I sure as hell haven't asked for a life preserver.
Patriots are
Going to win...I’m someone who knows.
With respect
Let's hope you haven't just jinxed us.
Only hi-
Jinx....I’m someone who knows.
Sportsball People
why do they hate our beautiful city so much? (i am thinking because most don't live here and actually come in from the burbs)
its sad that we have to put up with piss, vomit, fights, vandalism and death (remember the girl that died during one of these sportsball "celebrations"?).
For the sake of our great city........Go Pennsylvania Eagles.
Yes
We should be more like the staid sportsball fandom of the City of Philadelphia.
I think you'd like Philly. Much more civilized than us Boston savages. You should move there.
no we shouldn't.
because there is really no difference between sportsball fans in northeastern cities.
i do hope the Pennsylvania Eagles win so we don't have to put up with celebrations. but i will feel bad for the residents of Philadelphia that have to put up with sportsball fans ruining their great city.
So
You want the Philly yuppies to suffer so you can have your peace.
My concern is more for the
My concern is more for the elderly residents and residents with young children...rather than yuppies or life long residents.
ideally I am rooting for the game to get cancelled or end up in a tie.
Oh sure
You are just dripping with sincerity there, dude.
Give it up, you sad pathetic fraud.
That whole freedom of
That whole freedom of assembly as a natural right thing that the US Constitution states .Gov has no right to trespass against is totally getting shat upon. It would be nice if the SJC and MA AG cared about such things instead of playing coy games to score points with whatever political cause was blowing favorably with the wind on a given day.
Someone please get the ACLU out of the cocktail lounge and wake Jeff Sessions from his daily nap-time spent dreaming of busting pot heads to file a Civil Rights complaint.
The Constitution
Became a mere suggestion a very long time ago. You seen the gun laws around here? How about how long some of these court cases take?
Sorry,
You're only allowed to make those kinds of criticisms inside the designated free-speech zone. You know, the one inside the chain-link fence, under the highway overpass.
Been napping, have you?
The ACLU has slightly more important things to do these days than ride to the rescue of your possibly-maybe-some-day-MIGHT-be-infringed-upon rights of assembly of sports fans in Boston. When the violation of your rights moves from hypothetical/projected to actual, you can give them a call your own damn self.
I was reading this post with
I was reading this post with the same skepticism you are, but I don't think there is a case here.
They're only banning and regulating motor vehicle access, which unfortunately is well-established that they can get away with. There's no legal "right to drive" or "right to park" even on public property. If the city starts cordoning off the sidewalks, demanding IDs from pedestrians, searching people on foot on public streets or demanding to search people's cars without a warrant, then there's a case here.
Same goes for the impositions on the restaurants—these are licensed commercial establishments who are already by virtue of their license consenting to be regulated in myriad ways. These restaurants have no civil liberties claim against the city. And if a restaurant tells people they can't wait on the sidewalk, or they can't come back in after they leave, that's well within the restaurant's right as a private business; the person has no civil liberties claim against the restaurant.