Yeah, no shiat, that's a huge improvement. Stay the fark away from State Street when this stuff is going down.

Ahh yes, the fond memories from UW...

Maybe I just haven't watched enough COPS, but how is someone arrested and NOT taken to jail? Wouldn't that just be a detainment while being ticketed?

Best breakfast I've ever had: 3AM on a Saturday morning at a Madison Denny's. Place was packed, and nearly every single person there was blasted out of their minds on something.

Good times... good times

for us, not the wait staff; and I feel deeply for whoever had to hose down the bathrooms.

clancifer: Maybe I just haven't watched enough COPS, but how is someone arrested and NOT taken to jail? Wouldn't that just be a detainment while being ticketed?

Citations are non-custodial arrests. Your signature is your bond.

The Mifflin Street douche-fest is one of the reasons I hated living in Madison. Just a bunch of drunk amateurs vomiting on the street. The Halloweens there are even worse.

/I hate Madison.
//Chicago is where it's at.

Never been to Mifflin, or to Halloween (I go to school in La Crosse). We party hard enough here, no reason to be herded like animals by Capitol police.

//Oktoberfest is a real party

default_user01: The Halloweens there are even worse

Ohio University has the better Halloween party anyway

ragekage: Yeah, no shiat, that's a huge improvement. Stay the fark away from State Mifflin Street when this stuff is going down.

And I completely agree.

435 West Mifflin in the mid 90's.
Man we trashed that place.

Most of the problems occur when out-of-towners come in to party and trash the place.

Nearby streets were blockaded and signs reading "No open alcohol, no glass, no public urination," greeted party-goers.

I only go to these parties for the public urination anywaz

/Lives near madison

a friend and i were partying at the end of block one year and decided to take a drink of beer every time we saw someone arrested. 3 beers and a half hour later we decided it might be a bit much.

Becky Beerings: a friend and i were partying at the end of block one year and decided to take a drink of beer every time we saw someone arrested. 3 beers and a half hour later we decided it might be a bit much.

light weight!

They are really hurting for money.
Expect a lot of new ways to screw you.

140 arrests? That's really not bad. I'd expect at least that many underage consumption citations.

I loved living in Madison and hope to go back some day. But I never bothered with the Mifflin street stuff. It seemed like the kind of party meant for underage kids and their friends, and I was a bit too old to find being crammed on a street drinking out of a plastic cup fun. Still, that it happened made me happy.

Now, if I could figure out how to transplant the endless sunny days of the southwest to Madison, it'd be perfect.

ugh.
Add this to the list of reasons why I don't want to visit Madison.

I missed the party this year, but maybe twice in the past was enough crowded drinking in back yards. Spending the day fishing was much more satisfying.

In years past I've heard stories about guys being arrested once, ticketed, released, and going back to the party only to be arrested for something stupid again.

gwendolyyyn: ugh.
Add this to the list of reasons why I don't want to visit Madison.

ZOMG they have 2 parties a year that get a little out of hand! run away!

I am sure Mifflin was a great thing back in the late 60's and 70's when it was a protest against Vietnam and the drinking age was 18. Now the only people that go to Mifflin are minors and people from out-of-town.

>RantI think the cops at the event are very nice. They see overflowing houses and drunk minors all over the place being a pain in the ass. All they ask is you keep open alcohol containers off the street, and people still complain about the "evil police" just out there to arrest people having a good time.
Farking whiners!
>/Rant
/From Madison area
//Went when I was in High School
///Not college
////Hungover Slashies...

So happy I live on East Mifflin instead of West Mifflin right now. You. Off my lawn.

/hotlinked

Sorry, had to post it.

Huh.. sounds like the Tea Partys the fiscal conservatives had across the nation. If only the media had been responsible and reported on them that way as well.

gwendolyyyn 2009-05-03 11:02:52 AM
ugh.
Add this to the list of reasons why I don't want to visit Madison.

Well,you're smart enough not to use this as the ONLY reason.

State Street during Halloween '87, wearing a motorcycle jacket with 'TOXIC WASTE' on the back. Some guy was there with a hocky mask and chainsaw, firing it up while standing in various intersections. Never saw people run so fast and I was in a few Summerfest melees...

I had fun, and it lasted waaay longer than 5 hours.

Okay, let's get this over with:

I was at the FIRST MIFFLAND block party (sheesh, 40 years ago?!?!). I was 14. Took some great pictures including then alderman (later mayor) Paul Soglin getting arrested. Remember the tear gas that night, too.

Good times.

I have a house on Mifflin right now, and it's a complete shiathole. There's about an inch of mud on our floor. When our kegs ran out, everyone on the street just used our house for our bathroom.

Mifflin Street Block Party FTW!

APO_Buddha: Now the only people that go to Mifflin are minors and people from out-of-town.

Wasn't the case when I was there in the 90s.

Ericfoos: 435 West Mifflin in the mid 90's.

which years? I may have been one of the people who helped trash it during the party.

UW Madison, you guys ROCK!!! Had a freind who was in grad school out there. A bunch of us did 2 summertime road trips to see him back in the day. Went to college in New England, does not even come close to UW. Madison is definately the ultimate party town!!! GO BADGERS !!!!!

Went to Mifflin once, grew up near Madison but went to school at U of M. Left once the idiots started throwing beer bottles at a fire truck, and the riot police started breaking out the tear gas. It wasn't that fun.