Maybe if the Green Monkeys knew how to act . Then this step taken by the MTA wouldn't be necessary ! I remember what happened last year on the [7] train after the parade . These dummies started by my count [7] fights on the train between Vernon, & 33rd. st .

The conductors are not going to enforce it!

People will just pre-party before getting on the train..you can't stop people from drinking.

Slainte

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Regarding the headline:

"Outcry Over MTA's St. Patty's Booze Ban"

If you are going to use the familiar tense when referring to the saint, instead of the formal Patrick, it would be Paddy, not Patty.

Patty is a girl's name.

cheers.

Being around drunk people on trains is terrible. As far as I'm concerned a train is a public place and therefore, since drinking on the street is already illegal, I don't see why it isn't always banned.

Either way, this should make bar owners in NY very happy, since people won't be able to bring in their own booze/pregame on the train they will now be forced to pay exorbitant drink prices at bars.

I love how the civil rights activists start whining about "lost rights". Whatever happened to "It takes a village"? Of does that mean "the village" has to pay for the overtime it takes to cleanup the trains and the "villagers" have to smell your vomit?

I've lived and worked in Manhattan all my life and that's the first time I say a photo of people waiting on line at 8:30 in the morning on St. Patrick's day drink at a Bar.

Any other revelations I should know? I'm usually working on St. Patrick's day and head home after work.

i think they should ban people from coming in from long island and connecticut. oh, and definitely new jersey. i'm all for the b & t ban!

they should ban the juice all the time, as far as those motherwhoringirishniggers, fuck em all!

Get off my ass you wee bitty fuck

If I pull out the Claymore you're shit outta luck

Who's that girl, that pretty young thing

After I fuck her she'll get up and sing

Aye Aye Aye -- sharpen your boot, and bludgeon your eye

Aye Aye Aye -- the Blarney Stone brings a tear to me eye

Down to the pub for a two shilling ale

The bread on the counter is going stale

If I don't get some fresh bread soon

Gonna punch you in your face and bark at the moon

Aye Aye Aye -- sharpen your boot, and bludgeon your eye

Aye Aye Aye -- the Blarney Stone brings a tear to me eye

Ain't got no girl 'cuz I haven't the time

Got too many other things on me mind

Patty was nice she was pale and cute

But I threw her away like an old piece of fruit

Aye Aye Aye -- sharpen your boot, and bludgeon your eye

Aye Aye Aye -- the Blarney Stone brings a tear to me eye

Got ooze in my pores my feet are all wet

Got mold in my ears but I ain't dead yet

Got stones in me bladder got a crack in me head

When Patty starts cryin' this is what I said

Aye Aye Aye -- sharpen your boot, and bludgeon your eye

Aye Aye Aye -- the Blarney Stone brings a tear to me eye

The ban isn't new. It's been in effect at least for the last few years. Why are they just freaking out about it now?

Also, as a regular LIRR passenger (with a reverse commute, so I get the evening train-drinkers going into the city to party), I'm fine with trying to prevent the inevitable drunken altercation. Plus there are already enough empties and beer spilled all over the train car floors as it is without a holiday traditionally known for drinking adding to the problem.

Being Irish I get so angry at the stereotype of us all bein' a bunch of drunk brawlers that it makes me want to have a few shots and then go out and punch someone.

Post # 7 is a racist asshole.

The stereotype that all the Irishlike to do is drink and fight gets me so mad I want to have a couple of shots and then punch someone.

Post # 7: Yeah, the only people I see acting stupid on those days are the Puerto Ricans and Irish. Asshole.

The comment by the Emerald Society VP complaining that the St. Pat's Day Parade is unfairly being discriminated against in comparison to the Gay Pride Parade is so ironic it makes me wonder if he was joking.

I propose that both parades be policed to the same extent whenever the number of non-Irish partygoers claiming to be Irish-for-a-day on 3/17 is matched by the number of straight people donning rainbow-wear and proclaiming "They're here, they're queer, and we should we should get used to it" whenever the Gay Pride Celebration comes around.

"I’m looking at you Puerto Ricans and Irish"

Because God knows no one other than the Irish get drunk in St. Patrick's Day.

Why is it that whenever the short comings of a group of people are pointed out by anyone else, the group immediately cries racism?

How about not acting so ridiculously stereotypical at your parade/debauchery fests?

I’m looking at you Puerto Ricans and Irish.

This ban on alcohol may make people drive instead of take the train. Do you realy want more drunk drivers?

Your logic is terrible.

Sure... it's freeedom to puke in public.

If you're old enough to drink, you should be old enough to understand why they're inforcing the ban.

If your need for alcohol is so pressing that the hour long trip on the MTA is cramping your style, you need an AA meeting, not a St. Patty's party.

Seriously.