New Jersey Borough Bans Outdoor Drinking Games

WNBC Television ^ | 8/3/2005 | Puppage

[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.

[kstewskis]

and please go back and read what I wrote, and tell me where I accused the state of banning beer pong.

I refered to the smoking proposal.

Learn to read.

[Slicksadick]

http://www.nbpl.net/
Find at this link, rules for all types of beer pong, paddles or not.

[Xenalyte]

Screw 'em. I always play quarters inside anyway.

[kstewskis]

Thanks!

Things have changed since the day..../sigh

[Slicksadick]

West Coast rules

from Beerpong.com

• If you drink beer while playing beerpong, drink in moderation and stay in control. This keeps it fun for everyone.
• Lobs only (strictly enforced, not like regular ping pong. Each ball should have a solid 2-3 foot arc). Winning shots which aren't lobs don't count. Re-do the point.
• Cups go in the corners of the table (paddle in from the side and back ofthe table)
• Hoops in the cup = The person who got hooped has to drink a designated amount of beer (determined before the game starts).
• Hits on the cup, but not in the cup = one sip.
• The point is never over until the ball is hit off the table, or it bounces twice. A hit on the cup does not count as a bounce (i.e. hit the cup then hit the table, you can still hit it back before it bounces on the table a second time)
• All drinks (an accumulation of hits) occur after the point is over.
• The team hooped has the opportunity to throw the ball back into their opponents cup (either one) from their side of the table(don't lean in too much). If the throwback is successful, the person throwing back gets to decide if both teams drink, or if the drinks are cancelled. Also, if the throwback is successful, the other team gets the opportunity to throw back, thus nullifying the original throwback, and so on.
• Doubles - partners rotate shots (just like regular ping pong).
• Singles - cups go into center of table (paddle in from edge).
• Must win by 2 points.
• Play to 21 or 11 if others are waiting to get on the table

Other rules to point out:

• Stoners: If the ball skips off the edge of the table before the other team can get a paddle on it, its declared a "Stoner". Although the team who made the stoner still gets the point, they have to drink once since they got such a cheap ass point.
• Space: If you forget the scores, or forget to drink or any other space, you and your partner have to drink.
• Remember, one for all and all for one. If one teammate drinks, both have to. No saying, "You got hooped, or hit, you drink". Both teammates drink together.

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[frithguild]

Doesn't the city already have a "public drunkenness" or "public nuisance" ordinance?

Yes, but it does not put enough cold water on the situation. This just allows allows the clam diggers (Have lived at the shore for 20 years consecutively) to nip the inevitable bennie (A transient and usually rude and loud intermeddler from north of the Raritan River) behavior in the bud.

[dead]

I guess you are just one of the people we dread having in our town. its all about respect, which is lacking.

Yes, I play wiffleball. Little old ladies with open windows and cars full of kids be damned!

Have you considered wearing a catcher's mask while driving, grandma?

[kstewskis]

ROTFLOL!

That's more like it! Thanks for the great memories (of what I can remember) :)

[nfldgirl]

They say "freedom first" out of one side of their mouths, and "take freedom away from the lowlifes" out of the other side.

It's called Personal Responsibility. With freedom comes personal responsibility...those who choose to act like noisy, bosterous, loud-mouth derelicts at the expense of others can expect to have some of their freedoms restricted.

[Slicksadick]

Check this video. A guy funnelates a whole bottle of red wine....
http://www.yikers.com/video_guy_chugs_a_bottle_of_wine.html

[alisasny]

Raise the rentals..//seriously if you want a better clientele then you need to charge more to rent there.

Its quite simple CAPITALISM : )))

But oh wait only stupid kids rent these run down ant infested places anyway....

[Calpernia]

Cross hairs have moved to alcohol

[Madeleine Ward]

You are right about personal responsibility.

[Calpernia]

Doesn't this new law spill over to drinking on private property?

We have BBQs in our yard all the time.

Are we now breaking the law because we are having a beer with our burgers on our deck?

[1stFreedom]

Groups of people being excessively loud, vulgar, intoxicated, puking,

Yea, all that. People don't want to live next door to that....

[Living Free in NH]

Are we now breaking the law because we are having a beer with our burgers on our deck?

Only if you're having a good time. Try to look bummed out - look like a democrat.

[Calpernia]

ROFL!

Frowns for all!

If I fail to post here Thursday night, blame it on a giggle!

[calex59]

Seen plenty of whiffle balls hit bike riders and such....

Yeah, there is nothing worse than a terrible wiffle ball strike to the head while riding a bike. They have been known to hit so hard that sometimes the rider actually knows he/she was hit with something./S

[frithguild]

Are we now breaking the law because we are having a beer with our burgers on our deck?

Almost.

They should just change the law to read, "Bennies go home!"

[Calpernia]

How about, "No Beer For Bennies" :)