Almost 300 people arrested during South Beach Memorial

[Sela V]

Originally Posted by tres-b

Memorial Day attracts a quality crowd to South Beach. Too bad they are on their way back to Atlanta as I type... :P

And when they get back to Atlanta, I hope they think long and hard about paying a bunch of money to be locked down for the weekend... LOL

[tres-b]

Originally Posted by pod

They lock you up for the weekend so you cause no further issues, and then tell you to get lost on Tuesday.

Keep it simple. If they arent roaming the streets they arent causing trouble.

[pod]

Exactly.

It's akin to being grounded like when you were a kid.

[Sela V]

Originally Posted by pod

Exactly.

It's akin to being grounded like when you were a kid.

No it's not. It's like paying to go to the movies, and getting arrested if you look at the screen.

[coach]

Originally Posted by sela

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Total count so far of 557 included 80% misdemeanors. What they did was flood the streets with cops and arrest disorderly people. Quality of life offenses, just like how NYC did it back in the 90s. Grab as many people as you can for the small stuff and you'll reduce felony crime. It works. All in all I thought it was ok this weekend, except for the traffic. It was at a stand still and these hip hoppers are morons for bringing their cars. The local bus was free this weekend, but it seems I was the only one taking it. ???

On a more important note, 44 guns were confiscated. Thanks to the police.

I'm pretty sure this is part of an effort to discourage this crowd from returning next year.

You know, the thing is, if I was a hip-hopper, I'd be really pissed off at the 557 idiots who ruin for the rest of us. I mean, enjoy your music, no matter if it is polka, C&W, or hip-hop, but don't be an asshole about it. Sure, hip-hop (or rap) used to be the music of the revolution, and that was a different thing because it stood for something. But now it is just fluff, like any commercialized music.

So, come, be welcome, listen to all the hip-hop you want, but don't bust the place up. I mean, is that too much to ask? I know there are more behaved hip-hop fans than non-behaved, but the percentage is not high enough yet. If the hip-hop community would just apply some peer pressure to the idiots, they could come to South Beach all they wanted and party all they wanted, and we would welcome them.
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I read that there were 117 arrests during the 2006 Winter Music Conference at Ultra alone, and they confiscated a whole bunch of drugs... At any given time, the hammer can descend, and it does not have to be hip hop for it to happen. I see people walking down Ocean Drive with open drinks all the time, coming straight from Wet Willies sippin on a Taxicab... But this past weekend, that same activity would have resulted in an arrest. Don't believe me, watch what happens after MDW is over... You'll see people go right back to walking down the street with their drinks, and they will not get arrested.
[/quote]If *all* that they were doing was walking down the street quietly drinking their drink, I guarantee you that none of this would have ever come up. Unfortunately, there are a few in the crowd that cause a lot of trouble and this fucks it up for everybody. When so many people are here, the police do not have the kind of time or manpower it would take to really discern between the "good" lawbreakers (walking down the street with a drink in hand minding their own business) and the "bad" lawbreakers (same but causing public nuisances). Remember, that when the first Hip-Hop weekend happened, there was not this huge police presence. The police state has been instituted in response the to irresponisibility of some of the attendees. Had ALL the hip-hoppers been well-behaved from the get-go, then none of this would be necessary.

[JMT]

more like going to the movies and insisting on standing on your chair the whole time, and then shooting at the screen.


god bless the MBPD. i take back the bad things i said about them in my parking incident in 2001.

[Sela V]

Have fun guys.....Next...

[240turbo]

Originally Posted by JMT

more like going to the movies and insisting on standing on your chair the whole time, and then shooting at the screen.


god bless the MBPD. i take back the bad things i said about them in my parking incident in 2001.

Damn right. These animals get arrested because they are unable to conduct themselves in a normal manner. I say animals because South beach is literally like Metro Zoo for MDW. Jumping around like a bunch of apes. They constanly need a cop up their asses to tell them to behave. If they didn't do anything stupid they would not get arrested. So Sela V's example about paying to go to the movies and getting arrested for looking at the screen is a poor one, not to mention an irrelevant one. You don't get arrested for merely taking a plane and "being on south beach" as an innocent bystander. You get arrested for taking a plane to south beach and acting like a jackass. Ladies and Gents, wake up and smell the coffee, please stop trying to defend a group of idiots that do not know how to behave.

[all4tribal]

Originally Posted by Rick'

[quote author=JMT link=board=2;threadid=28530;start=20#msg330584 date=1149002742]
more like going to the movies and insisting on standing on your chair the whole time, and then shooting at the screen.


god bless the MBPD. i take back the bad things i said about them in my parking incident in 2001.

Damn right. These animals get arrested because they are unable to conduct themselves in a normal manner. I say animals because South beach is literally like Metro Zoo for MDW. Jumping around like a bunch of apes. They constanly need a cop up their asses to tell them to behave. If they didn't do anything stupid they would not get arrested. So Sela V's example about paying to go to the movies and getting arrested for looking at the screen is a poor one, not to mention an irrelevant one. You don't get arrested for merely taking a plane and "being on south beach" as an innocent bystander. You get arrested for taking a plane to south beach and acting like a jackass. Ladies and Gents, wake up and smell the coffee, please stop trying to defend a group of idiots that do not know how to behave.
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+1...

[coach]

Originally Posted by Rick'

[quote author=JMT link=board=2;threadid=28530;start=20#msg330584 date=1149002742]
more like going to the movies and insisting on standing on your chair the whole time, and then shooting at the screen.


god bless the MBPD. i take back the bad things i said about them in my parking incident in 2001.

Damn right. These animals get arrested because they are unable to conduct themselves in a normal manner. I say animals because South beach is literally like Metro Zoo for MDW. Jumping around like a bunch of apes. They constanly need a cop up their asses to tell them to behave. If they didn't do anything stupid they would not get arrested. So Sela V's example about paying to go to the movies and getting arrested for looking at the screen is a poor one, not to mention an irrelevant one. You don't get arrested for merely taking a plane and "being on south beach" as an innocent bystander. You get arrested for taking a plane to south beach and acting like a jackass. Ladies and Gents, wake up and smell the coffee, please stop trying to defend a group of idiots that do not know how to behave.
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Layin' down da law, baby!