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Originally Posted by dknv
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Originally Posted by sperry
...They'd rather spend the money and keep people away so that half-dead old people can drive they're busted ass cars down the middle of Higuera St. with the right blinker on while making left hand turns from the middle lane.
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 I think I'm going to take this up too, sounds like a funny way to piss off the other 99% of the drivers on the road.
Seriously, Austin, why did SLO ban a Mardi Gras celebration? Did one in a past year get out of hand or something? That's just sad. |
"Poly Royal" Back in the early 90's it started getting out of hand, I think there were riots 2 years in a row. (Course a riot in SLO is like two people walking down the sidewalk after 11pm.)
Anyway, they cancelled the party. A few years later, Cal Poly implemented their Open House instead of the big Mardi Gras party. The idea was to give the masses something to do, but make it more acidemic related, and do sort of a "hometown" feeling deal for prospective students that were coming to check out the school.
'Course, by about 2000, 2001 the Mardi Gras party started coming back. I hear in '02 it got pretty hectic... a friend of a friend of mine went back there and ended up spending the night in jail for "drunken disorderly" or something... know what he did? Walked out of a bar. He wasn't even drunk. The cops were just waiting right outside the door and putting everyone that walked out into a paddywagon to get carted off to the station. Fuck that.
And, since then SLO's been sending the cops out in force... hell, they even bring in Santa Barbara's cops and the riot police. IMO the message the city councel is sending is, "we're the rich people in this town, and we hate you bastard students, even though it's your revenue that keeps this town in the green. Fuck you and your civil rights, we won't let you have a party."
And this is just for one particular event... little things like this are all over the place... like the fact that there have been no apartments build in SLO's city limits since the 80's (apartments = student living space), the time local residents smashed the windows at a Carl's Junior down-town to scare the owner out of town (they didn't want a place open after 11 that catered to students), the laws that prevent cars from parking on the sity streets in front of houses (keeps students from renting homes since the usually have more cars than garage/driveway space allows)... and on, and on...