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Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?
Since most of us pay taxes this issue should really go on a ballot, I would feel more comfortable about this decision if it was voted by the tax payers of the city, instead of just the city counsel. And really what is this nonsense about "thugs" and "hooligans"??? It is an uneducated argument with no premise or conclusion filled with stereotypical generalizations. If anything there is more drunken behavior on the streets of PB at night then on the beach during the day, and since apparently the powers that be are worried about drunken behavior we might as well shut down bars altogether and while we are at it lets make San Diego a dry county, that way none of us "hooligans" can cause any trouble.— July 1, 2008 9:47 p.m.
Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?
I feel conflicted over the matter because the beaches are cleaner and nicer, but it is so nice to drink a cold beer on the beach on a hot day. I think they should have specific beaches where you can drink and specific beaches where it is banned that way everyone would be happy. Also to respond to the article, "If the ban on booze is merely pushing those hardened faces away from the beach and towards downtown, it is clear that the issue is much more complex than just drinking on San Diego's beaches." Not to sound obnoxious, but DUH!!! Hello San Diego has an awful homeless problem. Instead of worrying about a few young people that had a few to many beers at the beach (which is what generations of young San Diegans have always done) WHy don't we spend that much time and money into developing ways to fixing our homeless problems, with current housing costs everyday more and more people are going homeless, and its not just "hardened faces" in OB its women and children too. When are we going to start focusing on the real issues instead of the superficial?— July 1, 2008 10:10 a.m.