Despite verbal assurances to the
Amherst
Police
Department that they had changed their evil ways, the denizens of 83 Morgan Circle reverted back to their party habit over the weekend--with a vengeance.
According to APD narrative: "Extremely loud music and yelling was ongoing and unreasonable upon arrival. Approximately 500-600 people eventually left the residence with some resistance. Peace was restored and three parties were placed under arrest for Unlawful Noise."
Mark Edward Holland, age 21
Michael Jason Cabasso, age 21
Sergey Vuytik, age 25
83 Morgan Circle: Previous award for "Party House of the $emester."
Larry, you (and the town) are missing the point - in arresting the kids, in making this a CRIMINAL (as opposed to civil, like a parking ticket) matter, the town is going to eventually be looking at having to pay for lawyers to defend them. That is expensive -- and don't expect the state to pick up the tab because this is a municipal criminal offense and not a state law.
ReplyDeleteI encourage you and everyone else to carefully read Deb Saunder's column --
http://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2011/03/06/first_the_public_service,_then_endless_litigation --
Yep, and do you have any idea how many unemployed lawyers there are right now? ANY idea???
A few years ago I placed a bid on clean up of this property. All I can say is it was, and probably still is, just short of needing HAZMAT clean up.
ReplyDeleteThere were in excess of few hundred beer containers and just as many liquor bottles piled up everywhere. And the trash left behind was absolutely disgusting.
But hey, they had a good time right?
Fines are fines and kids will be kids.
ReplyDelete"There were in excess of few hundred beer containers and just as many liquor bottles piled up everywhere. And the trash left behind was absolutely disgusting."
It's like the war on drugs it will never end.
Ryan Willey
But 40 years ago Nitwits would actually use as an alibi that they should be found innocent of vehicular manslaughter charges because when they got behind the wheel of a car they were "totally wasted."
ReplyDeleteEnough is enough.
Can a community draw a line on certain kinds of behavior that adversely affect the well-being of neighbors?
ReplyDeleteAccording to some of the posters on this blog, apparently not.
And as far as I'm concerned, no matter where we draw the line, the Nitwits at 83 Morgan Circle crossed over it.
ReplyDeleteWe're supposed to ignore all of this............for the children.
ReplyDeleteI agree: enough is enough.
It's not like the war on drugs....unless there's some sort of addiction to noise-creation that we haven't been told about.
ReplyDeleteAmherst residents are entitled to the quiet enjoyment of their own property. That's not too much to ask.
The town is not going to have to pay for court-appointed attorneys. Once again, Ed has no idea what he's talking about.
ReplyDeleteBut long-time readers of this blog know that that goes without saying.
We're not missing any point. We CAN say that we don't tolerate this behavior.
"I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
ReplyDeleteShout it from your windows, forward to your Facebook friends, email the Select Board, Umass Chancellor Holub, Stan Rosenberg and Ellen Story.
You do not have a constitutional right to party all night so loud that your neighbors can't sleep.
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact that we have to debate about this indicates how far we have fallen.
These "kids" are tomorrow's adults. Will they be the ones who kill another father at a hockey rink because they didn't like what he said? Will they be the ones driving so aggressively that they cause a death?
ReplyDeleteMost of us (who went to UMass.) threw up after too much Bud -- once. We didn't do it every weekend. We didn't annoy the neighbors and keep their babies awake. Oh wait. We had to live on campus. We learned self control and we learned to live in a society where there are consequences to bad behavior.
Besides the fines, we should publish their names in THEIR local home town newspaper.
Amherst, the town without fun.
ReplyDeleteAsk the folks along Fearing Street whether there's enough fun in town.
ReplyDeleteWho said anyone is debating this.Everyone on this post agrees, except ed, who never agrees to anything.
ReplyDeleteRaise the fine.
This is then:
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and this is now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHoh-zjheZE&feature=related
Why don't the neighbors just sue the landlords for nuisance? It's a tort (or personal injury) to interfere with a person's quiet enjoyment of their property. Personal injury lawyers work for free and just split the damages award with the plaintiffs. If the propery owners around the university and party houses started launching some lawsuits against landlords and tenants, there will be very quick changes.
ReplyDeletePlease explain more. I'm not familiar with this.
ReplyDeleteUnderstand, though, that the streets too (Lincoln, Fearing especially) become street parties - Vegas style all-night bashes. The walkers are just as bad if not worse. Once you call the police and by the time they arrive, the crowd is down quite a ways. Then more walk by, screaming and yelling, and this goes on all night long. They all carry open beer and red cups, and the streets and yards are littered with this garbage the next morning for residents to clean-up.
anarchy
ReplyDeleteHas anyone just tried talking to the kids? Saying hey please keep it down, we have kids and its really a problem for us. I know I lived in a party house while going to UMass and found the neighbors more influential than the cops.
ReplyDeleteI agree - arguing through he authorities will only fix so much. Most of these kids can't have lived there for much longer than a year given that only juniors and seniors live off campus. It's a bit myopic to write these kids off as "nitwits" and petition for more severe punishments when they're faced with the decision of how to make a living. No, it isn't right for families to have to deal with such disturbances, but how many of these 'nitwits' are really the cause? Perhaps a more civil approach involving direct contact with these kids might be more effective than simply being locked into a "its-just-not-right" mentality.
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