booze and guns

Becoming less and less a fan of the city liquor license people every day. They recently played the part of Mr. Tough Guy by shutting Trinity down for two days for the heinous crime of selling beer at a brewery (most employees there don't have the luxury of a decent job like I do, so special thanks to those assholes for denting paychecks so close to x-mas). Yet, a downtown club called 13 Pure continues to be open for business. I don't think a month has passed since I've moved here that someone hasn't been shot or stabbed at that shithole. See the latest here. The name changes, as before it was called Eden and before that it was something else, but the trouble always remains.

This is what has happened there just in the past month: "In early December, a man was almost hit in the face by a bullet that went through his windshield. Less than a week before that, police arrested a 23-year-old man for allegedly threatening the club’s security guard with a knife. On Nov. 29, two men were stabbed during a large disturbance outside the club just after closing time."

Garbage. Why is that place still open? Oh yeah, because it's downtown. Cowboy's, RumBay, Blondie's (which has also recently changed it's name). Violently horrible shit happens at those places every weekend, and yet nothing ever happens. Guess the owners of those joints know the right people to bribe.

Not that downtown offers the only violent bars in the Springs. The Golden Cue has been in the news quite a bit recently for all the wrong reasons, this being the latest. Funny, the owner of that place continues to say the police have it in for him.