Crackdown in New Jersey on St Patrick's Day drunks

st patrick - of a roman-celt origin whose day in celebration of his conversion of pagans falls flat with drunks puking and acting belligerent in his memory.

St. Patrick's Day parades have become a humiliation to many Irish. Save a few, but get rid of the rest...

Perhaps there is a Parade of Public Pee-ers in New Jersey or New York. Perhaps Mayor Bloomberg could be the Grand Marshall!

Here in Somerville the parade is wonderful, and the local watering holes and restaurants really get into the spiritI've never seen rowdiness or offensive louts in the street. I see more of that in Bound Brook and Manville on an ordinary Saturday night. Every week the paper publishes the public police activities and there is an amazing list of people peeing in public! Are there no toilets in Bound Brook? Or no manners?

The law here in Ireland have it easy when it comes to Paddy's Day.We spend the rest of the year drinking anyway so when Paddy's Day rolls round its merely a case of drinking a tad more.

Been going to the St, Patrick Day Parade in Belmar NJ, since 1990 Not once that I seen any people getting out of hand maybe a few here and there but that all. I Used to go to the bars there like Pauls Tavern had some good time there playing bumper table with the Kennedy Boys and Bar A as well. My Sister lived in Belmar since 1988 - 89 near the train station of River Rd and 10th Ave, So now I just go down there with family member and friends and visit my sister and have some corn beer and cabbage after the parade and cold beer. So if you want to see a good parade Belmar the place to go I been to Seaside once didn't like not it not as big or nice than the parade in Balmar.

MY husband and I march in the Seaside Heights Parade with our neighbors and have a lovely time. People should get out an march more..it's such and Irish ting to do.

All the drunken morons aren't celebrating anything but being drunken morons.

Cheers !! (In moderation of course)

Hey Mayor McDrunky, better saty in Jersey City this year unless yer willing to endure another election-year naked photo. LOL

It's about time.

I don’t see anything wrong or unusual with ridding the streets of drunks. The Irish police do exactly the same in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway etc. in the evening and late night of St. Patrick’s Day here. One American visitor I met told me she couldn’t sleep at all in her city centre hotel on SPD night for all wee-waw wee-waw sounds throughout the night! No, nothing unusual there, for St. Patrick’s Day/Night. The sensible ones go home for tea ard 6pm or go for a meal, staying off the streets. Besides, it's only for one day/night. What do New Yorkers do when Scottish people celebrate Tartan Week - for a whole drunken week!

If you're writing this from New York, I'm terrified that you don't know that it's Hoboken and not Holboken.

i have been to the Morristown, NJ parade several times. In my opinion it is a very well organized parade,run well and a pleasure to attend! Remember it is a parade! Love it.