I live one block from Reed. Same stuff every year for 14 yrs I live here. I was pro booze 10 years ago, now no more. With a wife, kid, & home owner forever having drunks screaming at 2 am, taking a dump or peeing on my house wall, leaving trash, driving drunk at 50 mph hitting park cars / people, fighting, and taking 15 – 30 mins to get a cop to show up (“hey 911 is busy so if no meat cleaver hanging out of your head we will NOT come” quoted from SDPD finest!) – I say NO BOOZE!
The whole story from yesterday I was told started when one person push the police ATV into the water, but another push it out and HE got arrested! Wrong guy! The crowd started throwing stuff, cops got piss and call for back up. With 60 – 80 cops on end of Reed the rest of SAN DIEGO WAS LEFT WITH NO COPS!!! THAT MEANS YOU!!!
Then they sweep going after everybody, driving people out. I got to watch a couple of OZ looking guys (prison tattoo’s, HUG muscle guys (one was at least 6′ 6″ plus) running by cursing the overhead helicopter paging everybody they were filming. Why? They where looking to cause trouble and not get caught!
Then it got worse as a trailer trash family came by drunk, with momma (age 50 +) peeing behind my neighbors truck! Her son with a 12 pack stumble by then sat in the car and proceeded to drink can after can of beer, throwing them out the window on the sidewalk.
We call the cops, got on hold with the machine. By now my neighbor started snapping pics with his cell phone to get their plates. The son (big guy also) stumbles out of the car, screaming, ready to fight. His mom (still drunk) finally realizes this is bad, puts a cuople of cans thrown out in the trash and starts to slap him around, forcing him back in the car with the rest of the kids. 5 people jam in a broken down eco box, driven by drunk mom then roars off down the road, with him tossing more beer cans. We still are waiting for SDPD to pick up the phone.
This is what us owners have been dealing with for years, low life people from out of town, get drunk, and start trouble.
Yesterday was VERY CLOSE to a full riot, I ask people coming off the the beach and every one said the same thing.
Free PB group will try to spin control this, save your freedom, etc., yet they did NOTHING against the smoking ban . The bars and liquor stores run PB by MONEY donations through lobbying city council and TAX revenue. This is how the PB block party went from small family event to full drunken event with out of towners, gangs, low lifes coming here to PARTY, TRASH and FIGHT in PB. Heck, the internet ads for the block party made PB look like to place to PARTY like a drunken sailor on leave! The last PB block event they had a riot almost happen and SDPD had NO riot plan in place!
Yep the laws are in place but even with tons of cops something ALWAYS happens! I live across the street on the boardwalk at Reed, drug deals all day & night long, drunken marines and bums fighting EVERY WEEKEND during summer, beer bottles throw at me from passing cars at night, and so forth. Still not enough cops to handle this TYPE of crowd!
If no cops on every street corner then the low lifes, gangs, drug dealers just move around the police presence, I know because they hang out on my street and alley!
My wife makes us leave both on the 4th of July and labor day every year because of such madness. YOU try to living here with this madness every year – if banning booze cuts this even 20 – 30 % it is WELL WORTH IT!!!
I love PB 99% of the year, just 1% trouble makers (alway under age 30 punky guy with sunburn, screaming and fighting) every summer – the same problems, over and over, always from drunk and drug behavior. Even a holiday ban on booze would help!
GET RID OF THE BOOZE and the 1 %that causes trouble will be gone also! I know, I grew up in LA and rarely saw trouble at the LA beaches, cause by the 1%.
