It'd be kinda like making a piss-free zone in a swimming pool.

They used to just throw bags of urine, rocks and broken bottles at the gay float...

What did Ben Affleck say?

I like watching drunk people get beaten by cops, that just cracks me up.

I'll be pushing a pretzel cart at the parade tomorrow, drinking free beers and making some good cash. So for all those farkers out there at the parade, say hey to the guy pushing the run down brown pretzel cart.

What's the dumbass tag for? You're a dumbass if you'd like one patch of grass to be reserved to keep drunk boston frat boys away from your kids?

BLASPHAMY!!!!

/Guinness

Dambass, indeed!

Errr...dumbass. DUMBASS!!

Rock'n Fun Zone ?

I submitted this and put the Dumbass tag in. I love the idea and talked about it on a talk show I hosted here in Boston today. But the people who find this controversial are Dumbasses, hence the tag. I'm not Irish or a Boston native, so it amazes me that it's front page news when people are asked to respect the law at a frigging parade. (We can still say "frigging" on the air.)

As a local, I found too many lines in this article so funny that there's no point in quoting them. Boston is really the greatest city on earth.

Happy St Patrick's Day!

I dont get it. Its St. Patricks Day. Its a drinking holiday. Why dont they rope off a section of town on December 25 and have a no-presents zone?

You dont want your kids seeing drunks at a parade? Take them on a different holiday.

So...uh...What is the point then?

they're going to "crack down?" I call bullshiat on that:

for 1 the cops are irish,

for 2, EVERYONE will be drinking, they'd have to arrest half the city,

for 3, the cops only care about the trouble makers, if you can handle your booze you don't have a problem.

For 4, this is why we need to legalize WEED, stoners don't cause problems, like it's been said "marijuana leads to carpentry"

like it's been said "marijuana leads to carpentry"

IKEA surrenders

Hahaha, Good luck idiots. This would be like trying to rope off an alcohol free zone on bourbon street during mardi gras. Here's a tip to the idiot parents who are taking their kids to this parade - Stay at home. I mean come on, have some common sense, it'd be like taking your kids to a frat party. They're putting them in danger and if they think this is going to work, they're clearly dumbasses.

Boston with no drinkers at the Parade (Haha), thats like asking all the fleas on a dog to peacefully leave.

The Big Dig could be restarted and finished before they will get this "law" carried out.

I see absolutly nothing wrong with this.

The parades were meant for everyone to enjoy, the cops are being leniant (sp?) on the public drinking so why can't you drunk obnoxious farkers give the kiddies and familes thier space so some drunk asshat doesn't puke on thier 3 y/o kid?

What a bunch of sissies.


If they had a drink or two themselves I'm sure they'd lighten up.

Kid: "Why can't I go the the leprechan parade, daddy?"

Dad: "Because if we go some drunken asshat will walk up behind you and relieve himself on your head, junior."

Of course, it isn't like most of the people there are asshats. But they certainly are the loudest of the bunch.

The woman, who declined to be identified, said people might even confuse "alcohol free" with "free alcohol" and show up asking for some.

For some reason this made me giggle.

rhiannon - really. It this kind of attitude that turns everyone else harsher then they would normally be. Suddenly folks like be are getting cops to crack the skulls of guys like them and they don't understand why.

Bart: Wow! Can I see your club?
Cop: It's called a baton, son.
Bart: Oh. What's it for?
Cop: We club people with it.

As part Irish, I say that St. Patrick's day is for drinking. Leave the kids at home you farking pussies.

--am drunk

I'm not Irish or a Boston native...

Well there's a shock.

/drinking since Tuesday

Boston is really the greatest city on earth.

Agreed.

Here's a tip to the idiot parents who are taking their kids to this parade - Stay at home. I mean come on, have some common sense, it'd be like taking your kids to a frat party. They're putting them in danger and if they think this is going to work, they're clearly dumbasses.

Um, not quite... my moms used to take us to the Southie parade every year, there's always lots of kids there. If it were Mardi Gras you were talking about I would agree.

The point is there's nothing wrong with kids being at a parade where people are drinking. The parents there have no problem keeping their kids clear of trouble. Christ, it's drunk and loud, but it's more of a boring parade than a raging riot. Figures that someone from outside the city is the one biatching about it. I wonder if the poster has ever even been to the St. Paddy's Day parade...

If anything, seeing 45-year-old men singing with puke all over the front of their shirts and not caring made me hold off on drinking for a few extra years.

All this drinking, violence, destruction of property...is this what we think of when we think of the Irish?

/obligatory

You dont want your kids seeing drunks at a parade? Take them on a different holiday.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

This is so stupid. St. Patrick's day isn't about church and family - it's about getting wasted with your church and family! I seriously cannot believe the government gave these asshats $500,000. There you go America, you tax money at work, reserving prime parade real estate for uptight housewives who think that alcohol is the work of the devil, and think that they're irish.

Seriously though, the only people who should be allowed to reserve "seats" at a parade at the handicap. Throw your kids on your shoulders like every one else, and have a pint

This reminds me of an idea I had a while back. Take a 50lb bag of hemp seeds. Add about 100 marijuana seeds, mix the seeds. Rent a plane, fly over a national wildlife refuge or simalar large area of land and gradualy release the seeds over as much area of space as possible. There would be at most, 100 marijuana plants from the seeds and thousands of hemp plants. With no easy way to tell, the government would have to go in and find every plant and destroy it. They will waste so much money people will beg to have pot legalized.

/Has too much time to think

farkin Fark.

there's supposed to be a pic of the Fark personals guy

Using kids as a way to push your own irrational ideas of how everyone should live.

Diabolical

Muahahahahahah!

I'm sick of farking fundies who want us to be as boring as them so they can further feed their codependant dysfunction.

You know what, farking fundies? Religion is fake. Getting a buzz on alcohol is fun. So are a lot of other things I like to do and you don't. We are going to die and not exist at any capacity within the next 100 years or so (a quick amount of time). Everyone we ever knew is also going to be dead. The sun is going to eventually become laden with helium and expand, swallowing the Earth and everything it ever did (unless we can escape this amount of space).

It's America. If you want to willingly believe in your well-planned condescending bullshiat mysticism, it's your choice. Do it yourself, but stop forcing your puritanical purity on others who are better utilizing their 70 or so years of existence having fun.

Let people farking drink at St. Patrick's Day. While you're at it, Quit supporting politicians who deny first amendment rights. Turn off the radio if Bob and Tom annoy you. Go fark off!

Get the HELL OUT OF MY WAY!

/obviously didn't RTFA
/Past beer #4
/always sticking up for personal freedom/responsibility
/might be a moron if the FA I didn't R wasn't about this
/laughing at fundies anyway.

The southie St. Patricks day parade is a great time. It's fantastic to be able to drink in public like Boston is some civilized European city. Houses are open, people are friendly, it's a good scene.

THe one thing last year that did disappoint me was at the end of the parade when a group of vietnam vets marched behind protesting the war in iraq. Rather than just let them have their say a bunch of locals stared booing them. Nothing like seeing a southie fattie with a bud in one hand and a cigarette in another giving shiat to some veterans for speaking their minds.

Still a great parade.

people yelling, flashing breasts and rear ends, vomiting and fighting

You see, Timmy, just like the 4 food groups, there are 4 behavior groups.

Yelling
Flashing breasts and rear ends
Vomiting
Fighting

Best Line Ever:

"The woman, who declined to be identified, said people might even confuse "alcohol free" with "free alcohol" and show up asking for some."

Got a question..

When was St. Paddys day on the 21st???? Back home in Ireland they celebrated it already on the 17th.

Anyway if you farkers are celebrating it today, I guess that means I have to get drunk all over again ;)

Wasn't St. Patrick's day on wednesday?? Do I get to have another one??

Umm the dumbasses are the people who try to turn everything into a family affair and 'won't you think of the children' type event...really getting sick of hearing about it......They're your kids not mine and I really don't care about them......Why don you try holding their hand in the parking lot, not letting them run amok in the restaurant and basically making them behave, before you try makeing the rest of the world change to accommodate you...

Why don't they just watch the parade from the window of their $850K home?

/Damn carpetbaggers ruin it for everyone