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re: Is downtown BR going back to a ghost town?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:42 am to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:42 am to Tigeralum2008
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My buddy owns one of the places on 3rd street. He told me a group of bars asked BRPD to enforce the open container laws so that trashies wouldn't walk into a bar carrying a drink they bought from somewhere else.
Seems like a better way to do this is to enforce a rule that a person is not allowed INTO an establishment with outside drinks. That forces them to buy there if they want to come in, instead of restricting EVERYONE.
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Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:47 am to fr33manator
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Didn’t her moronic blubbering arse manage to screw that up too? By making the open container thing an issue?
Imagine if they enforced it on game days. Br would die.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:49 am to dgnx6
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Imagine if they enforced it on game days. Br would die.
I think there might be literal torches and pitchforks
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:49 am to fr33manator
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I think there might be literal torches and pitchforks
I'd buy a pitchfork and then light it on fire.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:51 am to The Pirate King
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Have you seen the sketchy mofos that walk downtown late at night?
Yes. Most of them are the same ones that walk around during the day.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:51 am to dgnx6
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Imagine if they enforced it on game days. Br would die.
That will never happen.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:52 am to The Pirate King
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Have you seen the sketchy mofos that walk downtown late at night?
You can call it a lazy excuse, but there’s just not a big enough draw to make the inconvenience worth it when you can roll up and park anywhere else in Baton Rouge.
I lived in Beauregard for five years. Never had issues. Would walk to Happy's, walk to the casino. Ride my bike up and down the levee. Br was on the up. What changed was the people in charge.
You really shouldn't be rolling up to a bar anyway. Drinking and driving is illegal.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 9:54 am
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:53 am to kingbob
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Things were really looking up for BR for a while there. The plants and refineries were experiencing a renaissance of expansions, the hospitals were expanding, IBM was investing in the town, new tourism with riverboats, pageants and big competitions and conventions at the River Center. Then, 2016 happened. It started with Alton Sterling and the resulting protests, then the shooting of police officers the following summer, then the flood a few months later, then Broome gets elected right after the flood by campaigning as Kip 2.0 but
This is total bs. Your perception of br might have changed but last I checked the hospitals are still expanding, Exxon is still expanding, ibm is still here (article today about them hiring more ppl). River boat tourism was on the rise? Didn’t know this. Monroe can have the pageants
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:53 am to Boudreaux35
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Seems like a better way to do this is to enforce a rule that a person is not allowed INTO an establishment with outside drinks. That forces them to buy there if they want to come in, instead of restricting EVERYONE.
This. If someone makes it into a bar with an outside drink, that's on the BOUNCER. He has 4 jobs:
1. check ID's
2. collect cover charges (if there are any
3. break up fights/toss unruly customers
4. check for weapons and outside booze
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:53 am to LSUDbrous90
I agree walking around w/ drinks is needed. But on the other hand, at what point does that attract loiterers that just hang out in the street and cause trouble.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:55 am to crewdepoo
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ast I checked the hospitals are still expanding,
true
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Exxon is still expanding
BR lost multiple billion dollar expansion projects that were supposed to happen here but instead were put in Corpus Christie as a direct result of policies supported by both Sharon Weston Broome and Governor Edwards.
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ibm is still here
also true
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River boat tourism was on the rise
Yep. Baton Rouge landed a stop on a Viking River Cruise route that takes people from New Orleans up to Memphis, St. Louis, and maybe even up to the Twin Cities, but I'm not sure about the specifics.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:58 am to Deactived
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Downtown was dying long before the new mayor came in to office.
Your opinions about downtown bars are one thing, but this is false.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:59 am to kingbob
quote:there are a handful of cities in the country which allow open containers, yet there are bar hopping friendly entertainment districts in hundreds of others. the open container laws are not the problem. its not hard to finish a beer and then walk next door to a different bar. Downtown Athens has the best bar hopping scene in the country without allowing open containers
It was actually a big factor for a lot of my friends. None of the bars downtown are the best bar of their type in the city. There are better cover band bars, better cocktail lounges, better pool halls, better patios, better night clubs, better beer bars, etc. What made downtown fun was that you could go with a big group who all wanted different experiences, and get different experiences as you walked down the street. The value of a strip of bars you could bounce between with your drinks was better than the sum of its parts. You could hop from bar to bar trying to find the crowd and atmosphere you wanted that night. Once the bar-hopping was essentially outlawed via open-container laws, those peeps went back to Tigerland or the Perkins Overpass area and the culcha took over.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:00 am to facher08
Do you agree with any of the opinions about said bars?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:00 am to fr33manator
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where do you get off calling everyone who can’t stand broome and wants Kip back racist
My man, Broome may very well be a terrible mayor.
Kip May very well be a much better politician for BR but go back and look at the blanket statements made about north Baton Rouge, Democrats, then mix a little St George talk in there and tell me race plays no role in the comments.
Most of it isn’t that subsurface.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:02 am to Deactived
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Do you agree with any of the opinions about said bars?
I do.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:04 am to stewie
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blanket statements made about north Baton Rouge,
North Baton Rouge is a shithole....those are facts
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Democrats
Not going there
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then mix a little St George talk in there
because citizens are tired of mismanaged funds and lies
So much racism...
Dude frick off
ETA:racism
NOUN
mass noun
1Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
The fact that there are black people in North Baton Rouge, black people who are democrats, and white people in the proposed St. George area does not make it racism.
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 10:07 am
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:04 am to bee Rye
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. its not hard to finish a beer and then walk next door to a different bar.
Exactly
King Bob argues that him and his friends basically play a game of speed dating downtown with the bars going to a new bar every few minutes.
Hey let's go to Happys.
Ok I got half a beer. Be ready in a minute
Hey let's go to Happys
Just got a drink, I'll meet you there in a few.
NOOOOO, you must come this second
I know it's cool to blame the mayor for downtown, but the bars there and the bars elsewhere are to blame. The bars downtown arent that good. All the best bars in the city are elsewhere
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:07 am to stewie
It goes both ways though, just listen to this woman Whitney Vann interviewed in 2012:
What race are you most interested in?
What race are you most interested in?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 10:08 am to Deactived
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The bars downtown arent that good. All the best bars in the city are elsewhere
What are your favorites?
I enjoy the Overpass area and the occasional Bulldog/Uncle Earls
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