The San Francisco Citizen

It’s been printed in the San Francisco Examiner, (so it must be true):

Captain James Dudley of Central Station in North Beach plans to ask the San Francisco Entertainment Commission to consider making mandatory handstamps specific to a bar or club so police can more easily make connections between specific locations and drunken behavior.

According to the Cap’n, “it would be helpful to be able to track people.”

Will this idea pass constitutional muster? Is it justified? Feel free to read the Captain’s weekly newsletters to see what he’s dealing with  on a nightly basis in the world-famous North Beach area.

Will mandatory handstamps make your San Francisco bacchanal safer? Adamcomerford via Flickr

Be sure you don’t spend too much time showing off all your temporary tracking stamps to your friends on the street, as loitering too long in front of a club will soon get you into hot water as well.

Stay safe and have fun!

This photo in no way shows the humongousness of the 2008 Union Street Festival (aka Eco-Urban Festival) in San Francisco.

Be sure to check out the ginourmous house party at 1760 Union - it’s huge. Here’s the back entrance on Filbert.  

These four kids from the south bay are shotgunning together in the backyard of the house party. Movie maven James Lipton is an idol to all bay area youth, so of course they love to emulate his naughty behavior.

The beer gardens are filling up, the sun is shining, and the Republican Party is recruiting (srsly, at Webster Street), so what’s holding you back?

See you there!

All the participants, after the jump

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