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Belmont Park Predicament Not Amusing
Maybe if the owners of WaveHouse (and pretty much Bellmont Park) hadn't blown all their money pushing to pass the beach alcohol ban, they'd still have some folding money and be able to afford their rent. They spent literally tens of thousands of dollars trying to get the ban passed so that their clientele would need to go to them for an overpriced Tecate on a pseudo-beach. Good riddance. Please don't tell me they did it from the goodness of their hearts, and that they wanted to clean up the beach. There's more trash picked up at the beaches than ever before, and they continued drunkening beachgoers well after the ban went into effect, but from then on it was through their dispensary.— November 11, 2010 12:46 p.m.
Milan Modern
I tried out Bice a few weeks ago and had a good sample of the menu. It was amazing. This review just makes me want to go back and experience Bice again.— December 23, 2009 12:46 p.m.
Not So Fast, Faulconer
Alright OB! The truth comes out. This thinly veiled attempt to make people go away so that the busybodies can be more comfortable on their beach-front patios has had some economic consequences. Imagine that.— July 30, 2008 2:18 p.m.
Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?
And on the note of a separate beach to drink on, that system was already in place: The alcohol-free beach was called La Jolla. You should check it out sometime. It's nice up there too. As with any decision one would make for their children and entire family, weigh your options first. I'll readily admit that the foot of Reed St. before the ban was less than family friendly, but simply walking three blocks down you'd find almost a mile of deserted Mission Beach until you reached Belmont Park. Going north of the pier was pretty easy too, or to Crown Point, De Anza Cove, Playas, Ski Beach and plenty of other places. Now the rest of us working folk can't make a free choice to go anywhere for a beer on the sand. We'll just have to get inner tubes and float out three feet onto the bay this 4th of July to crack open a cold one instead.— July 1, 2008 9:32 p.m.
Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?
Well, thankfully LOVETHEBOOZEBAN!!! is not doing any favors for his cause. He's trying to dig the bottom out of a hole he's already dug with his stupidity. I'm beginning to think he might be one of the homeless who used to live at the foot of Reed St. It seems like he never took any time to see the other 26.2 miles of beach from which our freedoms were revoked. Or maybe he just watches TV news all day, or maybe he's Kevin Faulconer's lackey. I wouldn't want to be any of those three things, personally. Keep it up, pal. You're making the rest of us "punks" look like nuclear physicists with the way you present yourself and your point.— July 1, 2008 9:26 p.m.
Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?
PBresident- What beach were you on at this time last year where they weren't issuing citations? I have never spent a day at a popular/patrolled beach in San Diego and not seen the cops and lifeguards issuing citations. If it's serious crimes you're talking about, they were already decreasing before you got your ban. Ask Boyd Long of the SDPD. He'll readily explain to you that Chief Lansdowne's three-year plan for holiday beach management was bringing about the drop in crime in general, and violent crime particularly, that you're looking for. It's also pretty safe to say that there have been significant serious crimes committed this year with the ban in place. Shootings in hotel parking lots, DUI deaths, tourists beaten and thrown into fire pits, stabbings. You won't catch me rooting for those things to happen -as you know I'm against this ban- but if you want to compare some numbers, please take these crimes into consideration. Your "logic" of waiting it out until the end of 2009 is a shaky attempt to make your legislation permanent while the rest of us are at our jobs instead of at City Council meetings crying on a Wednesday afternoon at 2pm. Again- figures don't lie, but liars certainly do figure. See you at the City Council meetings later this year.— June 30, 2008 8:24 p.m.
PB Police Prepare for Beach Booze Ban
Or maybe people don't like to hang out at a beach where the cops stick their noses into your sodas every day because everyone is a suspect. Who knows what kind of stuff is tangled up in those guys' mustaches.— June 20, 2008 8:58 p.m.
PB Police Prepare for Beach Booze Ban
There you go again, lovetheboozeban. Which part of the beach do you own? That's great. Who did you go through to get the title for that? I want some of it too. Now instead of them partying on your beach, they'll be partying at your neighbors' houses on both sides of your mansion. Do you think the cops would rather stroll the beaches or charge into private residences to crack down on the punks you speak of? Ask the Chief of Police what he thinks about that and he'll tell you the truth. He's NOT nearsighted.— June 20, 2008 12:10 p.m.
PB Police Prepare for Beach Booze Ban
Now the wealthy busybodies have exactly what they'd wanted all along: a beach with no people on it for their personal enjoyment. Crime will be down just because nobody is at the beach anymore. You know what other place has great sand and no crime? Planet Mars. Nobody is there, so crime is non-existent. The beaches are public recreation areas. What is this city coming to when it is goaded into taking steps so people won't go to its public recreation areas? San Diego is now just another white-bread community like all those corners of LA. Why come here now? There's nothing special about our beach communities that LA doesn't offer x3.— June 19, 2008 5:11 p.m.
PB Police Prepare for Beach Booze Ban
You mean that the PBTC is still spending all their time trying to stop alcohol from destroying the world? All my friends have let their memberships expire because it's been taken over by a bunch of people who are just trying to run "youngsters" out of town. I'd rather spend my $20 membership fee on a ticket to a StayClassy event. They truly HELP the community.— June 19, 2008 3:24 p.m.