A man who jumped into Boston Harbor from the roof deck at Whiskey Priest in August has gotten the bar in hot water.
A manager at the Northern Avenue watering hole told Boston Licensing Board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer today they've added additional staff to the deck and posted 10 to 12 signs around the deck warning that harbor jumping will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law - assuming they can catch the jumpers to begin with.
According to the bar and Boston Police, two bar workers had to fish the guy out of the water, because he kept trying, but failing to get up on a floating dock across the water from the bar. A bar manager and doorman tried to hold the man - a member of a bachelor party, possibly the bachelor himself - but he slipped away and ran down Northern Avenue. The two workers caught up with him by Jerry Remy's, but then he managed to run away again.
The jump happened four days before a similar incident at the neighboring Atlantic Beer Garden, which has since posted similar signs.
The manager, however, said there is little the bar can do to stop a determined jumper from performing "spontaneous acts of stupidity" - especially somebody who is surrounded by guys egging him on - and hiding him. In this case, bar workers had absolutely no indication the guy was going to jump, he said, adding there have been no further jumps since then.
The board will decide in the next week or two what action, if any, to take, after board members Milton Wright and Suzanne Ianella, both absent today, listen to a recording of today's hearing.
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