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The Death of Joy

Bay to Breakers organizers and city officials are cracking down this year, announcing a zero-tolerance ban of alcohol, nudity, and parade floats on May 17th.

Apparently, the poor bastards who can afford houses along the route are pissed because of all the people pissing on their property once a year (which is particularly atrocious because there's absolutely no way they could have known this might happen when they bought the place). While a drastic increase in porta-potties would seem a simple solution, the people in charge have instead decided to rape and kill the only piece of my soul that could still feel love.

If you want to contest this unjustified maiming of a century-old tradition, contact info for the people responsible is at the bottom of this article, and some kind of petition website has also sprung up. Alternatively, I suppose the sixty thousand or so bay area residents who usually show up could simply ignore the new rules, in a good old-fashioned display of mass drunken anarchy.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).