Whether we’d like to admit it or not, most of us have made the journey to Columbia’s “neighborhood shopping district,” which happens to be better known for its cheap beer than its fine boutiques.
For some, however, poor decision making is a much more serious deal that includes violations of both civil and criminal law.
Let’s be clear: Drunk or not, no one has the right to destroy another person’s property or urinate in someone else’s vegetable garden. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had three shots of Kamikaze or six bottles of your favorite beer, those who happen to live near your bar of choice deserve the same respect you’d want if you lived near a college with 20,000 undergraduate students looking to stay up into the wee hours of the morning.
Imagine how your parents would respond if some random drunk kid destroyed their mailbox or stole an expensive piece from their front yard. It’s safe to say they would be supportive of any measures taken by the city to restrict such adolescent behavior.
If we expect the city’s leaders to care about our opinions regarding proposals to close all bars at 2 a.m., we should probably not bolster their arguments by giving them even more reasons to send us on our walks of shame a lot earlier than we’d like.
Plainly speaking, if you’re one of the idiots tearing things up and emptying your bladder in senior citizens’ yards — stop it.
You’re pissing all of us off.