Sunday, March 8, 2009

New Neighbors "Top o' the mornin to ya."

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A snippet of an email blast among the owners of a swank downtown complex in Hoboken the day after St. Patty's Day 2009.

These neighbors have been in the building about 2 weeks and must not realize they live with actual people with real homes and families and olfactory senses.
Enjoy the dark side of Ireland:

"-Made a ton of noise
-left empty beer cans & bottles all over the stairs & hallways.
-splashed beer all over the walls in the hallway
-proped open doors to the street for hours at a time
-left garbage all over the buliding
-left garbage on the roof
-many drunken visitors scouring the building
This behavior is unacceptable. This building is not a frat house. We should not have this element here. Most of the people who live here have young children. We do not want them and the rest of our property to be at risk with these animals in our building. Please make it so this never happens again."

HobokenSandwich thinks this could be a quote from a city council meeting.
at 1:44 PM
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2 comments:

  1. I'm not sure when the Hoboken St. Patrick’s day festival turned into an excuse to spend all day drinking and act like an asshole, but that is essentially what it has become. The city was filled with people that on any other day of the week wouldn't consider it normal to start drinking before 9:00 am and puke all over their neighbors' porch or doorway a couple hours later. Or order a pizza and discard the box and whatever else they didn't want onto the sidewalk, or worse, the halls and stairways of whatever building they happened to be in. This type of behavior on a particular day is not new. One only has to look to Fat Tuesday or Halloween to see this type of idiocy in action. The idea being that if everyone else is acting like a drunken asshole, I can too (or if all my friends are dressing like complete whores, so can I). I wish I could say I was immune to this sort of thinking, that I was writing from some sort of ivory tower, but I am not. I am sure that I have acted like a drunken asshole on more than one occasion. Essentially, I have fallen victim to the very same herd mentality that seems to grip society on these particular days (and I am not proud of it - but I am also not a hypocrite). Perhaps the civility of our society is but only a thin veneer, and whenever we are given even the slightest hint of acceptance, we rush back to animalistic behavior that on any other day, in any other circumstance, would not be acceptable. What happens when the catalyst isn't a drinking event but some other force, mass unemployment, food shortages, war, military rule, and government oppression? Does civil society as we know it become as quickly discarded and forgotten as it appears to be on days such as Hoboken St. Patrick’s Day? I think I know the answer and I shudder to think at what may lurk beneath the surface of our civilized society.
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  2. You have given me a lot to think about. I'm very depressed and will probably do harm to myself and others.
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