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| Happy Lepre-versary |
Here it comes... again.
Unlike leprosy (the disease), Hoboken's Lepre-sy (the bar crawl) is incurable. The March suck-fest keeps coming back. Year after year, Hoboken residents can rely on another booze-engorged flare-up. And this year...?
On Saturday, March 2nd, the City of Hoboken will break out in thousands of green boils. There is no escape. Beer-bloated pustules from out-of-town will infest our streets... some will vomit, some will attack other boils, some will try to slug a Hoboken cop.
Who pays for this 'fun'? WE do.
Boy, could I use a good live sex act on a bar counter right now. C'mon people, what's up? Hoboken had a whole year to legislate the fun out of this creepy bar crawl and we did nothing? Because a few council members pander to their donors? Really.
Sincere best wishes to the Hoboken police and other emergency workers who will be on Lepre-sy's front lines. If history is any lesson, it won't be easy. As reported by hMag, 2018's Lepre-sy police stats were:
- 386 calls for service (down from 488 in 2017)
- 23 individuals transported to the hospital (down from 28)
- 4 arrests (down from 11)
- 37 summonses (up from 31)
Okay, Hoboken has another year to legislate the fun out of this costly suck-fest. GA would like to see this as a campaign issue from DeFusco's challengers, and the challengers of other do-nothings. Wouldn't you?
Thanks for the head's up. I'll make plans to leave town. The list you shared still adds up to 450 incidents. If the average cost of incident is $ 300, then not counting the cleanup and police overtime, this costs Hoboken 135K, but probably more.
ReplyDeleteWould love to see council take this on, and for the mayor to do more to stop this. It seems like all we can do is have the ABC commission punish the bars after the fact, as they did with 1 Republik.
DeFuckup's competition may make this an issue, but they may not have to. Mikey sold out to corrupt developers and fake ID bar owners, but he hasn't been able to deliver for them, except appearing at the Jersey City ZBA and remaining mute on the whole bar scene problem. Probably the only time he's ever shut up about anything.
Those contributors will want a return on their investment. New energy and new ideas doesn't cut it when they're looking for new money.
was a nice job by the city, HPD, and all who worked with them.
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