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A Common complaint
By adamg on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 12:04pm
The Tab reports police filed a license violation against the Common Ground on Harvard Avenue after a woman allegedly committed "assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (pint glass)" on April 5 by throwing her stein at another patron, getting him in the face and sending him to the hospital (report does not state if the pint glass still had beer in it).
The police blotter also contains some useful advice for BU students: Roommates might not appreciate having their shampoo bottles filled with what appears to be semen or having male genitalia drawn on their dry-erase boards and so might call the police (who will then advise the lot of you to go seek some counseling at BU).
Free tagging:
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Comments
the bar violated its license? how?
Bar serves beer to patron A, patron A uses the glass as a weapon against patron B, and the bar is somehow guilty of assault and battery? I don't get it. Are bartenders supposed to exercise precognition and clairvoyance now?
If I had to hazard a guess
Patron A was probably served many beers and got verbally belligerent before the pint glass became a weapon; bartenders and security staff should have cut the patron off and shown him/her the door before the incident happened.
It's not exactly fair, but bars are responsible for their patrons' actions.
OK, but then...
the license violation should be serving an intoxicated patron. Not assault and battery.
Bar violation
As far as I can tell, the bar is required by law to protect patrons from assault by their fellow patrons. Bars in Boston routinely get hit with a license violation any time a fight breaks out inside or even in front of the premises. It's not necessarily related to the person being intoxicated - I suppose they could be hit with double penalties if the aggressor were both drunk and violent.
If?
Would it be going out on a limb here to guess that most people who start fights in bars are drunk?
Not at all
Obviously not, although plenty of people get into fights who aren't drunk (though not necessarily in bars.) I think the point is that whether or not they're drunk, it's a license violation for the bar not to keep an eye on their patrons and keep them from mixing it up.
Ironically
The Common Ground is one of the classiest places in the neighborhood. I've never seen any trouble there.