The friendly powers-that-be are setting the boundaries for this year's St. Patricks' Day festival. Whether or not these priorities are enforced remains to be seen, but you may as well know about them lest you become acquainted with someone who isn't quite feeling the luck of the Irish.
The BPD released a statement on what you might be able to expect from law enforcement while you're celebrating:
Throughout the weekend and on Parade Day, the Boston Police Department will be taking steps to increase patrols, focused not only on the Parade route and calls for service but also on drinking establishments…. We will not allow a few excessive revelers to ruin the festivities for parade-goers and other individuals celebrating responsibly.
The statement also mentions that detectives will be in local bars to make sure revelers don't get out of line.
We're interested in how involved the law will be because this is Boston's first St. Patrick's day under Commish Ed Davis. Other cities have also started getting jittery about the partying.
The T has posted which lines will be affected by Sunday's St. Patrick's Day parade, which starts at 1:00 pm. They have promised extra trains on the red line to South Boston (Broadway and Andrew). They also promise extra police on the trains, which isn't surprising given the recent burst of violence on the T. However, we're confident that people will be in a better mood given the holiday.
Image of the bad leprechaun from Amazon.com. If people start looking like this to you, you should probably start laying off the green beer.
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