Posted on 08/03/2005 9:25:56 AM PDT by Puppage
BELMAR, N.J. -- Keep the beer pong and games of quarters inside.
In the ongoing tussle between summer renters and year-round residents of this seaside community, the borough council has banned outdoor games involving alcohol.
The so-called "Beer Pong" ordinance, which goes into effect Aug. 17, prohibits alcohol-related games or contests on porches, decks, lawns, front and side yards, or anywhere that can be viewed by the public and neighbors. Fines begin at $100 for a first offense.
Adopted last week, the regulation takes its name from a drinking game in which players bounce pingpong balls into cups of beer, with successful bounces triggering rounds of drinking.
Borough Clerk Margaret Plummer said residents near some rental areas have complained about people playing such games on their front lawns, getting progressively drunk and noisy.
Belmar, located about halfway between Manhattan and Atlantic City, has an offseason population of 6,000 that Plummer said can surge to 70,000 on a hot summer weekend.
Some summer renters, such as Michael Todd, say the borough is trying to drive out young people who provide an economic boost to the area. Todd, 27, filed a complaint against a police officer who issued him a summons for playing Wiffle ball, the Asbury Park Press reported in Wednesday's newspapers.
"I didn't know Belmar all of (a) sudden turned into a big dictatorship borough," Todd said.
The borough also plans to establish taxi stands around bars. A public hearing on that proposal is scheduled for Aug. 10.
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I am very good at this game. 4 years in college. One degree and hundreds and hundreds of opponents served. Some call it beer pong others call it Beirut or death ball. There are many variations.
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What do you consider top dollar and why is belmar NOT a family area???
oh well...when they ban jello body shots, thats when I'll be mad....;)
A decent house sleep 6 close to ocean 7 k for the month of July.
Why is Belmar not a family area.
That is a odd question.
There are plenty of laws on the books to handle something like this.
"You must have lived in a crappy part of the state."
I loved in a half dozen places over the years - most recently Jackson. It's not so much the surroundings as the fact that, if you don't have a high paying job, you better get nowhere near New Jersey, because even the lousy little house my ex and I once lived in cost $270,00. On top of that, the state is as overpopulated as China - EVERYWHERE you go in New Jersey is clogged with traffic (most of it with tolls, just to add insult to injury), and - perhaps because of THAT (or the proximity to New York), N.J. has bred a whole generation or more of kamakazee drivers, who somehow read the traffic sign "Yield" as "F YOU."
Oh, yeah, I may miss a lot of things in my life... but one of them isn't New Jersey...
"when it hits a lady in the head driving a minivan filled with kids, yeah theres a problem. "
Wouldn't it be easier to just pass a low requiring people to drive with their windows up? That would be the safer thing to do as there are things other than whiffle balls that can fly into an open car window.
I remember very little,it was the 70s.
If one is going to defend the area then deal with the noise in the summertime.....: ))))
I have no idea why you posted this to me.
Beer pong?
What a lamester.
If people are renting homes out for what you say, 7 k then kids can afford to group up and do this before they go into the real world.
I am sure you are not the complainer however,,,if Belmar wants to get some good PR then they can stop being a summer party town and rent to groups of kids who split the bill.
Do you want the revenues in Belmar or not?
We probably know alot of the same people...And that scares me a little.
Sounds like my kind of BBQ - too heavy on the sauce, then start playing games. Here - hold muh beer!
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