Wtf is going on on South St tonight?

[thegreattwizz]

It's *this* coming weekend, not August.

Perfect weekend to go to the shore....

[Giavella Water]

They should start scheduling Blue Grass and Country/Western. The thuggish types avoid that stuff like the plague! Maybe we can get Barry Manilow and/or what remains of Lawrence Welk's orchestra as well?

I like your idea. I once read of a 7-11 or WAWA that played Muzak on speakers outside it's store to keep slime balls from hanging around outside and it worked!

[goobee2]

Well the police were out in full force. I forgot all about the picnic and was sitting at Catahola(s) and seen two horses ( with cops- which I didnt see from behind) go by and thought " better switch my drinks". Then I seen bike cops, more horses and cars. Nothing happen on the street that I know of but then again I stuck with my initial drink....(S)

[BarryG]

There were half a dozen cops hanging at the turnaround at 3rd and bainbridge around 1am,looking bored. I asked them about Greek picnic, they said nothing happened.

[loveisnoise]

It was a record Saturday at my place for Saturday. Decent people all around, and if the neighborhood groups didn't advertise this nonevent with doom and gloom, no one would even know it was Greek picnic. In fact, they purposefully had events this weekend that were far outside any impact zones.

[Lyte233]

The official greek picnic that was regularly on the 2nd weekend in July for years hasn't happened in ages. Some people still equate that weekend with the Greek picnic and most of those people that act out that weekend are 1) not affilated with a Greek-lettered org or 2) never attended college to begin with. There is a much smaller more sedate Greek picnic that is run by the people that started the July one in August. You have waaay more older people at that one than you have had at the old July one. I am talking people in their 40-60's along with some of the younger ones meeting and quietly having fun. It is a family affair, you have mothers/daughters, fathers/sons attending that one, meeting with old friends and not causing a ruckus at all. Those that rampage on the 2nd weekend in July have nothing to do with the Greek picnic then or now, they were mainly outsiders.

So those in the 'know' do know when the other one is and quietly attend that one while others remember when the old one was and automatically assume that any shenanighans on the 2nd weekend in July *must* be greek-picnic related and "oh the horror!" I do not condone any acts of violence that occured during the 2nd weekend in July and know that the official organizers backed off for a few years and there was no "official" picnic while they re-grouped because of that. Itis a shame that something that had a history of 30 years strong got ruined by those who have nothing to do with it at all.