re: LSUPD Crackdown on Tailgates

I'm no longer under 21, but for the last few years, from what I was told and experienced, the only way an 18-21 year old could potentially get an MIP on gamedays was for these reasons:

a) Walking around in open areas with a drink. Typically, the guideline I followed was to never leave the tent with a drink. As long as I was in my tent not acting drunk then I was fine.

b) Drinking out of a can/bottle. If you drink out of cup in your tent, you wouldn't be bothered.

c) Visibly drunk/behavioral issues. Don't act drunk.

d) Being oblivious to the presence of LSUPD. If the bike cops are riding near, set down, throw away, or down your drink. Don't be in possession.

If you followed these guidelines, you were pretty much guaranteed not to get an MIP. This past Saturday was a completely different story though. Anyone who looked under 21 was fair game no matter where they were, how they were behaving, what they were drinking out of or even if they were actually drinking underage.

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Good advice, but here's some more... learn moderation and pace. Beer pong is fun. But avoid beer bongs. Don't let peers pressure you into drinking way too much. EAT SOMETHING! DRINK SOME WATER!

Drink. Enjoy drinking. Learn how NOT to be an a-hole when drinking and how not to drink to excess every time you take a sip of alcohol.

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+1


That's the KEY to fully enjoying your tailgating experience - and it also applies to Mardi Gras as well. You gotta pace that drinking, not so fast you get hammered and fall over before kick off, but not so slow that you don't have a really good buzz to a light drunk going into the game.

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but he can not take your chest for that,

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Can he? Is it actually explicitly legal to have an open container on LSU campus on gameday, or is it just a system of salutory neglect? I know that, for instance, in New Orleans, its actually only technically legal to be in public with an open contain in the French Quarter - but the open container law is NEVER enforced outside the quarter.

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F you old farts who are telling us to follow the "law"

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As if you never drank or smoked when you were younger.

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I remember when I was a student, which was 70's.
As long as you guys are acting in a civilized manner, and not causing problems, you should not be harrassed. I also think anyone old enough to vote, or join the military, should have the same rights as other voters.

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I did have a run in with a cop going into the student section though. dude patted me down and then asked how old i was and if he could see ID, i was like im 21 and dont have anything on me why do you need to see my ID? he said, "just fricking show it to me and stop spitting in my face when you talk". so I 'd, showed him the "frickin id" and then he told me to get out of his face

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Was it LSUPD? They are total dicks. I think they are pissed off they can't cut it as real cops.


I remember back in 95 myself and a van load of 6 other hippie looking people got pulled over in Kirby lot on Aster back when Aster wasn't paved yet. The pig wouldn't tell us why he pulled us over, and he insisted he saw us smoking a joint (which we weren't). It took up about 2 hours of our time. By then end of it there were about 3 or 4 other LSUPigD cars there and some a-hole in plain clothes ordering them around. They never found any drugs on us.

The morons missed the half ounce that my friend had hidden in his shoe at the time of the pull over and which he slipped in between the two seats of the cop car they had placed him in!

Sadly I'm not surprised. And police wonder why so many don't respect them anymore. You have to give respect to receive it. Just because you represent my government doesn't give you the right to abuse me. I give them their power willingly as a citizen of this country. It's not inherantly theirs.

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The morons missed the half ounce that my friend had hidden in his shoe at the time of the pull over and which he slipped in between the two seats of the cop car they had placed him in!

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No they didn't.

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No they didn't.

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What's funny is in a way they did have the last laugh. They were just about to let us all go, then the plain clothes guy said "why don't you search their shoes first" ? So my friend, who was in the cop car, see's them start to look in our shoes. So of course he takes it out of his shoe and sticks it in the cop's car. The funny part comes when they get to him - he was the ONLY person whose shoes they DIDN'T look in!

Did anyone get busted smoking weed?

agree if you are old enough to serve in military at 18 you should be able to drink...

but the folks between 18-21 and drinking and causing problems.. are not in the military nor do they have any intentions of doing so..


and the ones I see are the worst ones about trashing the campus