Comments for Go cup ban passes; Lafayette is saved! at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 27 out of 20 comments http://www.theind.com Sat, 25 May 2013 12:20:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-13224 When there's not enough crime in a city the police themselves will become the criminals. Sure there is crime in Lafayette, but show me a perfect place to live and I'll join you there. All this is going to do is allow the police more options to pick and choose who they wanna harass. Or maybe this is just gonna be another law that nobody wants to enforce, like having to be 21 to get a beer in a bar. What a big joke this will turn out to be. We're gonna have to pass two more ordinances to fix what this one is gonna screw up! - Moving Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:19:08 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12173 Inane. All you have to do is hang out with a Sonic (or Mickey D's, or BK) cup filled with a non-alcoholic drink, get arrested and sue the City for deprivation of your Constitutional rights. I see some money to be made here............ - ETEE Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:36:03 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12129 Solutionor says, ban the brokeass young blacks from Downtown. The solution lies at the toll gate. - SOLUTIONOR Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:43:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12128 XX EXPRESSO, Balancing the budget is a big brother term and heard most often pre-elections, the term was originated to pacify dumbasses who still believe in the tooth fairy, drink bottled water, and wear hush puppy shoes. - SOLUTIONOR Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:37:04 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12120 Self-indulgent children. When the h*** are some of these south la. people going to grow up? Really, I want to know. Of all the issues facing this world, this country, and this state (education, climate fail, indebture, infrastructure crumbling, social/economic injustice) we can have some of our citizens spending 3 hours on principle of arguing over the purity of constitutional intent of liberty from the enlightenment era? Let's face it, most of y'all couldn't have purchased the fancy clothes, throw away plastic and import beer, mardi gras beads from child labor in china, automobiles, 2200 sq/ft homes or daily 30 mile commutes 223 years ago anyway. All us peasants would have lived in the countryside and farmed, and some of us would have lived in cities, engaging in trade and manufacture. To say that our founding fathers have a lock on all knowledge of human nature for all time is a stretch. The prescious "gaux" cup is a modern luxury you may come to miss, but your life and our culture will go on as it was before. Now, put that beverage in a reusable container....I might be persuaded to reconsider. Meanwhile, I'm just waiting for the Tea-Party revolt against the "liberal" Republicans who run Lafayette over issues such as this and traffic cameras and sales tax increases and arts funding and all the rest. It will make for interesting civic theater. Meanwhile, will the real Progressive Democrats please stand up, please stand up. - Unempirical Observer Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:57:42 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12113 So it's No Go Cup. I am glad that is over with, now let us get back to minor issues, like balancing the Federal budget. - Double Expresso Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:06:21 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12103 "Lafayette saved"?? What ever happened to objective reporting? Way to stay neutral Independent Weekly. I'm being sarcastic just in case you didnt catch that. - LaFondas Smasher Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:34:15 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12090 Mai, In my profound conclusion in answer to the problema, the answer is to have the surveyman designate the points of infiltration by the riff-raff and minoritys and let the ambulancegreenman bid on construction toll b ldgs at these points, charge $ 25.00 toll to enter the downtown strip and shazaam, the problema is null and void, Poof ! AND the elite sons and daughters can frolic without being in danger of anyone changing their social caste, by unwanted minoritys. - Solutionor Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:35:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12089 When is Lafayette going to wake up and stop covering the story up with go cups its all about keeping the blacks and riff raff out from downtown - Go Cup Monster Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:46:46 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12086 "Certain City Sanctioned Events, ETC. What they have told you couillions, Ha-Ha, the message you can't see for standing too close is that the "Elite have to exempt their eventful elitism frolicing events Downtown Alive, Mardi Gras, EAster Sunday, Hee- Hee, I recall back in the 70's when our city fathers were having a big delivery of booze delivered to their downtown club for their Krewe, Mardi Gras Ball on a Sunday which at that time, to sell spirits ( BOOZE ) on a Sunday was against the law, when they were reported to have broken the law , HEY we're talking Police Chief, Sheriff, Mayor, etc and when they were busted, they said ... " We did not purchase the BOOZE on Sunday, we just drank the booze and got drunk on SUNDAY, AND WE DID NOT PAY FOR THE BOOZE ON SUNDAY, WE JUST DRANK IT AND GOT PIE-EYED SUNDAY, HOW STUPID WAS THAT, Tese were our city's Leaders, Drunk As Skunks Buying Liquor Against The Law, On A Sunday. Yep, me and my homie's delivered the booze and collected for the delivery then. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:58:33 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12081 Lafayette is such a "backwards thinking po-dunk town". Every bar owner who voted for this ordinance is basically holding patrons hostage in their establishments. Those bars should take a hit in sales if patrons do their research. I agree with "Deconsolidate Now", it is not good when the NEW MAYOR of Scott is the deciding/changing vote on a downtown Lafayette issue. - beheard Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:43:05 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12080 How is a "cup" defined. How is a to-go cup defined? So if I'm drinking out of crystal - then I'm good? - Whatcup Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:07:30 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12078 "written by Happy , November 03, 2010 This is great. Now if we could pass a law that you have to have a tie and coat to walk Downtown it would be a place worth going. Its time to stop the under dressed population from bumping into us better dressers " I think that was the saggy pants thing and it failed - something about the constitution. - Hey YOu Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:50:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12077 Excellent article analyzing the pros and cons except for one factual error -- "Captain Kirk" Piccione's office is no longer downtown. Furthermore, Bill Goode's office is on Johnston Street, on the outskirts of the true "downtown" that appears to be the thorn in the side of certain folks, i.e., that section of Jefferson street from Vermilion to past Dwyer's. - Truthseeker Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:27:10 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12073 “I suggest that Rome is burning and no one smells the smoke.” Uhhh, who exactly lit this fire, Mr. Bertrand? With your history at the PZC, with Chief Craft's history on the boards of downtown development authorities....who exactly is Nero in your eloquent little analogy? - ragin_cajun Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:59:33 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12071 I cannot understand why go-cups should be allowed anywhere in the parish. The SAFEST place for people to leave a bar with a drink IS downtown and the strips, where they might actually be leaving to patronize another bar -- not immediately hop behind the wheel, drunk as a skunk. This vote was a vote for downtown's economic development over the parish's public safety. If you really care about public safety you ban go-cups and drive-thru daquiri huts everywhere. - Lou Rom on KVOL Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:34:15 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12068 This is great. Now if we could pass a law that you have to have a tie and coat to walk Downtown it would be a place worth going. Its time to stop the under dressed population from bumping into us better dressers - Happy Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:17:39 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12062 I could not agree more with this statement: "All the laws on the books would take care of any of the situations.” What power does the go cup (or as I like to call it the geaux cup) ordinance provide Downtown police they don't already have? I also think it's going to open a new world of problems, mainly what constitutes a geaux cup? If I am walking to a bar from my home Downtown and I have a beer in my hand am I subjected to the new ordinance? It's not a plastic or foam cup, it's a can. Perhaps this was addressed at the council meeting or it will be determined at a later date. I agree with downtown goer. The geaux cup was a scape goat for larger problems facing Downtown. It would have made more sense to pass an ordinance that patrons of bars Downtown be 21+. This would have at the very least reduced the number of patrons Downtown making the crowds more manageable. Will the litter in Downtown Lafayette be reduced? Absolutely. Will it deter the intoxicated people exiting bars at 2 am from staying Downtown after hours? Absolutely not. Will it reduce the amount of Downtown crime and violence on the weekends? Absolutely not. - JG Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:28:40 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12060 If they REALLY wanted to get a handle on the problem, all they had to do was pass or enforce a NO LOITERING Zone, just like they(the police) did in the late 70's at the strip. You either had to be in the bar or in your car. Everyone knows its the people hanging outside the bars thats the real problem downtown, not a go-cup. Nobody has the kahunas to say it because they would then be labeled a racist. So, once again, lets punish all for a few bad apples, instead of tackling the real problem - Southsider Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:50:57 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/7232-go-cup-ban-passes-lafayette-is-saved#comment-12059 Actually Deconsolidate Now, with just a city council in place it would have passed. It was the two "parish" morons that jeopardized the passing. On the "city" side it was 3 to 2. Maybe you are right. - Hamburgerhelper... Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:31:07 +0100