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By an edhat reader
On Saturday I saw numerous tables at the Rose Garden set up for young adults to play Beer Pong – in a PANDEMIC! I did not see anyone wearing a mask or social distancing. The tiny signs prohibiting Picnics and Group Activities were ignored. Since we have been repeatedly told that alcohol is associated with the spread of COVID-19 it would appear that there is a conflict between allowing alcohol in parks too.
The Santa Barbara City Council will discuss mask enforcement throughout Tuesday starting at 2:00 p.m. To make a public comment and have a computer, internet access and a mic set up the Agenda item is #13. The Agenda can be found at the URL below: https://records.santabarbaraca.gov/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=592&doctype=1
Beer Pong with a paddles and a net? That’s called Ping Pong. I have a good one. How about Bong Pong? I bet it’s been done.
Drink Wine.
“Operator? There are boys in the park having fun and appear to be playing drinking games! Yes!! Drinking games that I assume involve alcohol. And the nudity!! OMG, none of them is dressed from the waist up. That’s right, NO SHIRTS (there oughta be a law against that). Please send someone at once as I feel threatened by their youthful exuberance. ”
Go try that at the beach this weekend and let us know how it goes.
Yeah, but they are all taking turns touching the ball–and then drinking and eating. Genius.
ALEXBLUE – doesn’t look like they’re eating. Plus, so what? People go into stores and touch groceries and other products and then someone else comes along and touches the ones they didn’t pick. I’d be more concerned with indoor activities. How do you know they aren’t all roommates? I used to live with a bunch of people in my 20s and we’d do stuff like this all the time. The point is, it’s nothing to go calling the cops and fretting about!
This post is offensive and going down a dangerous path. If you are going to secretly take photos of people, and public shame them on a local website, you should at least put your name behind the post. Is this really what we are doing now? We need to reject this privacy invasion.
I thought Y’all wanted to ‘defund the police’. Now you want to call them for masks and social distancing?
Whats the real solution? Having people understand that we are all interconnect and rely on one another to be healthy and thrive.
Agreed. In school they’d call you a tattle tale. But schools are closed, yet children still act like children.
That’s one of the huge problems with edhat – no names. Right – “liberty”?
6:03 yes that’s correct. People want to defund which will eventually lead to demanding to abolish the police yet want everyone to be monitored, jailed and fined for everything. I just can’t with these loonies. Smh.
Police have to pick and choose which of the many laws they can enforce. Enforcing the mask laws against drunk 20 somethings is a lose lose situation for them. Probably don’t want anything to do with maskless people just like the rest of us.
Omg leave them alone to get covid. Enough with citizen police.
Op what is different between them drinking beer and the other thousands of people that go there each month to drink wine and other cocktails? Or did you really not know that happens there since it IS permitted? These guys could be roommates who cares how they drink. Is your life really affected by this? Is your life really that bad?
oh no!!!!!! BEER PONG?!
Wait this is news to me…. we can drink in public at the Rose Garden?? I’ll be there this weekend with my beer and a mask! Being able to drink (responsibly) in a beautiful outdoor place like this is awesome! It’s about time we became more civilized and allowed alcohol in parks.
Also, got to say that of all the drinking activities, beer pong (or whatever this is) is perfectly easy to do while maintaining distance. You’re at the opposite ends of a 6 foot table! No need to wear masks outdoors when distancing. I’d be more concerned with indoor parties, bars, gatherings, etc. THAT is where the real problem lies.
What would Jesus do?
True.. a regulation beer pong table is 8 feet long.. seems like perfect social distance drinking game to me!
Played with a PING PONG ball IS beer pong.
Frat boy dice tossing is beer die.
Alcohol _is_ explicitly permitted at the Rose Garden and Mission Park.
https://santabarbaraparks.com/parks/mission-park-and-rose-garden/
In fact, alcohol is allowed at a number of Santa Barbara parks. See this map. Anywhere with a green glass icon is OK.
https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=159348
TAGDES – Yes, I knew it was not in the County all along, that’s SB City. I looked it up and it does say “alcohol permitted.” I guess I always assumed it was illegal to drink in all parks. Maybe someone should consider opening a proper Biergarten in one of these places. Bretzeln, bier, mackerel on a stick (plenty to catch locally), oh my!
Translation: come for the news, stay for the drama.
You My-Rights-Trump-Yours fools remind me of the limp City Council vote NOT to enforce mask wearing in public (“but encourage and educate”). Anyone think the crowd in the photo OR the bulk of commenters here can be encouraged OR educated? Cover your freakin faces and stop whining about staving off illness and death and long term economic disaster. MASKS HELP. Setting examples helps. You do not.
The gross thing about beer pong is that the players are drinking the beer that has contained a ping pong ball thrown into it by another player. That’s unsanitary on a good day. As for this public shaming, I think some people are enjoying it way too much.
SACJON–come on, a single photo taken at a moment in time doesn’t exactly capture a range of activity, now does it? I drive by there almost every day and on weekends I see lots of people that are eating and drinking and yes doing shots and playing games together. None of them have masks, and I am pretty confident that many of them don’t live together. So, they are creating circumstances where they will spread the disease. I’m not too worried about getting it because I’m young and healthy, it but mask-holes like that are f@!cking everything up for our economy schools and a bunch of people who will get it and die. If we don’t start taking this seriously it’s just going to grind on and on and on, so basically you can stick a mask in your talk hole, because you’re spewing nonsense out of it.
Defunding does not mean abolishing. But the Faux news types have pushed hard to make that the common understanding. In this case, the question is, do you need armed sworn officers to go monitor the Pong people, or could it be a Community Service Officer with pepper spray? They get paid about 1/2 of a sworn officer.
And by the way, SacJon, maybe you haven’t noticed but there are signs all over the place in stores related to sales of produce that ask people NOT to do what you are talking about, i.e., handle goods and then put them back–why do you think that is?
ALEXBLUE – simmer down kiddo, you’re getting flustered. I’m just trying to offer explanations. Sure, this isn’t the most hygienic game and yeah there are signs at grocery stores, but guess what? NO ONE follows the signs! It happens. When you go in a store and pick out an apple, I guarantee someone else has touched it without a glove, or maybe even sneezed on it. Once again, people playing in the park are not the biggest concern right now, even the CDC says to go outside. Really, you need to relax more.
ALEX – oh yeah, forgot to ask – how is that you are “confident” that small groups of people like this don’t live together? When you drove by, did you yell out your window and ask and then drive by again listening for their reply? Boy oh boy, you must have a fast car and great ears! Hahahaha!
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