Help me protest the new tailgating rules

[HardCoreHawkFan]

Please join me in protesting the new tailgaiting rules this week and every week the rest of the season. When you head down Melrose please grab a can of your favorite non-alcholic beverage and place it in a koozie marked like a beer can (a straight Bud one seems to be the most convincing, they are available at most liquor stores). You will be stopped on Melrose. Please have a friend handy with a cell phone to film it (this will be handy to have if the cop claims public intox, most LEO's will search for easier prey once they figure out you will fight the ticket). If enough people do this the open container effort will soon be swamped. Seems to me this will do more to solve the problem than complaining on the internet will.

 

[Elwood]

I doubt anything you try will change the rules. Lincoln has done the same thing, no drinking in parking lots, no drinking in cars, basically no drinking anywhere near the stadium. All of the drunks at the games have brought this on. Why do so many think they have to drink to enjoy a football game? I will actually enjoy not sitting next to loud mouth drunk guy/gal at a game or concert.

 

[IH8IAST8]

Please join me in protesting the new tailgaiting rules this week and every week the rest of the season. When you head down Melrose please grab a can of your favorite non-alcholic beverage and place it in a koozie marked like a beer can (a straight Bud one seems to be the most convincing, they are available at most liquor stores). You will be stopped on Melrose. Please have a friend handy with a cell phone to film it (this will be handy to have if the cop claims public intox, most LEO's will search for easier prey once they figure out you will fight the ticket). If enough people do this the open container effort will soon be swamped. Seems to me this will do more to solve the problem than complaining on the internet will.

I'm in. It will not solve the problem but it will diffuse the cops. Diet coke is better, because the upper part of the can is silver

 

[okeefe4prez]

I was pondering self immolation on the Melrose bridge, but maybe this idea is better.

 

[PeoriaHWKI]

The only rule I question is how you consume a beer in the parking lots. I understand the no liquor only beer rule, but how can you legally enforce how someone drinks that beer if you are not the one to sell it to them. i am not pro beer pong, flippy cup, or beer bong.... I am just asking this question based on the legality of it.

 

[H8IAST8]

I think they can legally do whatever they want since they own the lots. No if you are on private property they can suck a Di*k

 

[mj4cy]

As a clone fan, I'd like to help you guys protest. Tailgating is a lot of fun and people pay good money to the university to be able to tailgate.

 

[mj4cy]

Where are you guys supposed to drink?? That's really too bad. I do love in Ames how we can drink anywhere, play drinking games, and basically drink right up until we pass through the gates. My favorite is the beer on the go into the game!

 

[Hawkeyes1982x]

Why can't we drink to enjoy the game, whats with being over 21 and wanting a adult beverage before a football game? I like my beer with my brats.

 

[IH8IAST8]

I think they can legally do whatever they want since they own the lots. No if you are on private property they can suck a Di*k

Man, did I start to change your opinion at all? That's been my attitude all along, and we are pretty lucky that University Heights is just a stones throw away from the stadium.

 

[H8IAST8]

Man, did I start to change your opinion at all? That's been my attitude all along, and we are pretty lucky that University Heights is just a stones throw away from the stadium.

I've never went the private lot route, since the crackdown the last few years. I guess i don't reall know where to go.

 

[IH8IAST8]

I've never went the private lot route, since the crackdown the last few years. I guess i don't reall know where to go.

Try Golfview in University Heights, or up koser around the Olive court area.

There's also a couple of houses on Melrose just before golfview that used to have a kegger if you paid to park in their yard; I don't know if they still do that but they still allow parking on the yard. I think a lot of people that live in University Heights use it as a revenue source to pay off their high property taxes.

 

[ShadasRevenge]

Yeah, I can see this working.

 

[Hawkfromnorwalk]

As a clone fan, I'd like to help you guys protest. Tailgating is a lot of fun and people pay good money to the university to be able to tailgate.

For this protest you actually have to have some carrying nothing and some carrying beer. Since we're good sports I think all the clone fans coming to visit should carry the real beer.

 

[hawkcub42]

I think I will protest by just parking in non university lots next year and possibly this year (even though this year won't effect them as I already bought their parking pass).

 

[IH8IAST8]

Since we're good sports I think all the clone fans coming to visit should carry the real beer.

There's always gotta be an idiot, right?

 

[DwayneTwill]

Why can't we drink to enjoy the game, whats with being over 21 and wanting a adult beverage before a football game? I like my beer with my brats.

No one is stopping you from doing that.

 

[DP5555]

They aren't stopping you from doing it but they are controlling where you do it at and how you do it. What's wrong with wanting to have a beer as you stroll into the stadium enjoying the awesomeness of the atmosphere? There's gonna be WASTED people no matter what rules or limitations are put into effect. I have no problem with those people being arrested because they deserve it, but those people will continue to get hammered regardless what limits are put into effect. The only thing the new rules do is give the cops an excuse to get people who aren't acting like drunk idiots in trouble as well. This is America and if you can't handle your alcohol then you should be arrested if you're in public, if you can handle it then you should be able to do whatever you damn well please.

 

[lightning1]

Good idea.
If I could afford it, I'd hand out Budweiser koozys and diet soda to every car coming down Melrose.

 

[cincyhawk]

They aren't stopping you from doing it but they are controlling where you do it at and how you do it. What's wrong with wanting to have a beer as you stroll into the stadium enjoying the awesomeness of the atmosphere? There's gonna be WASTED people no matter what rules or limitations are put into effect. I have no problem with those people being arrested because they deserve it, but those people will continue to get hammered regardless what limits are put into effect. The only thing the new rules do is give the cops an excuse to get people who aren't acting like drunk idiots in trouble as well. This is America and if you can't handle your alcohol then you should be arrested if you're in public, if you can handle it then you should be able to do whatever you damn well please.

This.

It isn't the not being able to drink that bothers me. It is the infringement of basic freedoms that occurred during the enhanced enforcement that bothers me. Looking into someone's vehicle for no reason, belligerent officers acting like bullys to make a show of force, protection of civillians taking a back seat to the enforcement of the law. Drinking != drunk. Music != disturbing the peace. Assembling in large groups != crazy partying. Flippy cup != date rape waiting to happen.

I don't like giving cops excuses to ticket or arrest average citizens who are otherwise law-abiding because they are doing something some people do not approve. Others morals != my morals. Thank God I still have a right to my beliefs and the right to express them.