- Bussa nova. Drums and bus.
I’m just wondering because I’d never been on one before last night, and wow. We had a keg, we had flashing lights, we had self-directed pole dancing, and since it was an off-brand party bus, we weren’t sure there was anything we weren’t allowed to do. Do the cops just ignore a party bus or does the driver drive in fear the entire time?
The party bus was our ride back from the otherworldly 35+-mile, three-day, two-night, public art project called The Long Walk, which involved about 50 people, and which I Tweeted about all weekend. (You can also find Tweets by other Long Walkers—at least one I know of—if you search for #tlw, but that hashtag also involves lots of non-related stuff in Spanish.) I’ll tell you more in next week’s paper…
Well first of all it helps to not brag about breaking the law in a party bus in a popular local blog. I am sure the cops know what goes on in there but just like going after marijuana they have better things to do until someone complains.
Thanks a lot for helping ruing the fun…
i troll on you hard because a: you ‘teach’ at my alma matter and b: you work at my prior paper. get your shit together, this town does not need posts about a fucking party bus.
The Long Walk? You should have gone to Critical Massive instead.
@2, looks like your alma don’t matter for shit.
People drink in the back of limos all the time. How is this any different? Some of the Hummer limos (shudder) have tiny stripper poles in them!
A party bus descended onto the bar I used to work at just before closing. We kicked them out after 10 or 15 minutes, it was a 21st birthday party and we couldn’t check everyone’s IDs with two people on staff and 30 kids showing up all at once (they were buying pitchers).
As they were pulling out, I saw a very young looking girl take a big pull off a handle of vodka and chase it with a 2 liter of coke. It was sad, I’m scared that the party ended with a bunch of vomit and date rape.
Please tell me that picture is from an Ugly Dress Party.
Wow. I will try to “get my shit together.” Thanks for the intervention.
Just one other thing: @2: If this town needs something, why don’t you provide it?
@4, nice.
@ 9 jen, agreed.
This sounds like fun… I am going to write the WSLCB and demand they put a stop to it.
We’ve got these fake trolleys built on bus chassis that roam the city in a similar fashion. The drinking itself isn’t a violation, in most states you can even drink in the back of a conversion van, but the whole standing-up-wasted-while-moving-down-city-streets thing must exist in some legal gray area.
@12, Perhaps the cops are just so impressed at the level of drunken balance required for a party bus that they don’t mind.
Open container laws often contain exceptions for these sorts of vehicles (and motorhomes!). They vary by state, but sometimes it’s outright allowed, sometimes you can need a special event/catering type license. I would read the law carefully before trying somewhere like, say, Utah. IANAL.
Geez, Jen. Maybe you should have focused more on the amazing experience we all had hiking through eastern King County on trails that ranged from bucolic pasture scenes, tree covered rivers, a few construction sites, busy thoroughfares, and ever increasing trail grades with 40 really cool people to the mountains…all of which totaled at least 60 hours vs. the 30 minutes on the much more mild party bus than perceived by all your off-based responders.
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@Beth Sellars: Hi Beth (if that is you — one never knows on here).
I’ve written repeatedly on Slog about the Long Walk; I Tweeted it, with images, *all weekend*; I’m working on a feature for next week; and I’m including it in a research project that will become an essay later this year. Please tune in, stay tuned, and accept the joys and limitations of fragmented coverage if you can.