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Allston bar that is already in trouble for letting underage students drink gets caught with more underage students drinking
By adamg on Tue, 01/16/2018 - 2:14pm
Two Boston University freshmen told police detectives who nabbed them with vodkas and cranberries at Wonder Bar, 178 Harvard Ave., that they got in without showing any ID by slipping the doorman some money - $10 in one case, $15 in another.
An attorney for Wonder Bar told the Boston Licensing Board today his client is using its current seven-day shutdown for letting underage students drink during the Head of the Charles to really clean house.
Attorney Robert Allen said he is not yet convinced the two 18-year-olds nabbed on Dec. 3 actually paid off a doorman, but acknowledged they got in somehow and that as a result, owner David Eisendrath has fired the entire door staff. Eisendrath also purchased a $6,000 license scanner, partly to catch fake IDs, partly to scare off kids who see it and decided to go elsewhere rather than risk having their bogus licenses taken away, Allen said.
"We get it, we get that there's a problem," Allen said. In November, Eisendrath made a similar statement at a November hearing on the October Head of the Charles incident, which involved six under-21 college students who'd managed to get drinks.
Allen said Eisendrath is committed to returning Wonder Bar to what he said was its former "Fort Knox" reputation as a difficult place to try to sneak in.
The board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take.
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Comments
$10 for a fake?
I know doorguys in Allston who get paid $20 for confiscating a fake, so at a $10 bribe, either Wonder Bar is not compensating its staff properly, or these kids are indeed lying about having tendered some grease.
Falsifying government ID, bribery of security officials,
and throwing others under the bus when you're caught.
Looks like Boston University is raising the leaders of tomorrow. To be overprivileged, lying, backstabbing shits.
The alcohol laws need changing, but all the local colleges should warn incoming students that passing fake ID, bribery, etc. will get you expelled.
Now why would they do that?
Kick out a paying customer?
and throwing others under the bus
Does that get you expelled too?
And the courts need to take this seriously
as well. For starters, no more "continued without a finding" BS when these adults are caught. Plus expulsion from school after they appear in court.
Time to stop treating use of a fake ID as a "rite of passage."
"get off my lawn"
Why don't we give them the electric chair too while we are at it? *eye roll*
Either it's a big deal that
Either it's a big deal that people are drinking underage or it isn't. Either both parties in the act should be punished, or not. It's BS that businesses get dragged through this whole process, spending time and money and risking shutdown and loss of their entire investment, and the other perpetrator gets a slap on the hand and maybe their ID confiscated. Not only is it unfair, but it sends the message to the students that this isn't a big deal, pretty much encouraging them to do it, and then using that to go after businesses.
Now why would they do that?
Kick out a paying customer?
Time to raise the drinking age
Criminalizing what adults their age in other countries get to do is ridiculous.
You are a tiresome youth hater
Seriously. Get over yourself. Its a freaking fake id. They wouldn't even need it anywhere else besides Islamic caliphates.
No, I'm tired of this attitude that ADULTS
caught committing crimes that are rightfully felonies are given a slap on the wrist. Perhaps if we stopped coddling these ADULTS who knowingly used fake IDs and held them RESPONSIBLE for their actions, then fewer people might be inclined to use these IDs.
Oh, but that makes too much sense. Better to punish business owners for actions it's impossible for them to totally control.
You know what?
I'm tired of the ridiculous criminalization of something ADULTS in most non-shithole countries get to do as ADULTS at the same age while ignoring that DRIVING is the real problem. If we punished DRUNK DRIVING like we should, rather than indulging your pathetic obsession with punishing being young, we would be a lot better off.
p.s. it is people YOUR AGE who are still getting blotto and getting behind the wheel at high rates. Maybe we should ban alcohol for people over 60.
ADULTS?
So, are they ADULTS or are they banned from drinking because of their youth. You can't have it both ways.
That's not true. I'm my
That's not true. I'm my college days in Massachusetts getting caught with a fake id was a huge deal (you don't take getting arrested seriously?). Most of us would not bother taking the risk, especially in relation to what it's like in other states.
Bribery of "security officials"
Bouncers are deputized agents of the police state now?
Wow.
Steroids - heck of a drug!
Oh, please.
You should read about some of the student brawls at Harvard during the 18th century. And, yes, the devil's water was involved. Young adults have been seeking alcohol since there was alcohol.
Years ago (12-ish?) that bar
Years ago (12-ish?) that bar was pointed out to me by a recent BU grad as "..the place you go to drink before you're 21."
I wonder how some of these places stay open for so long.
I live down the street from this place
And it produces some of the drunkest people I've ever seen. People screaming at each other, break ups, crying, singing at the top of their lungs, jumping on cars, all after 2 AM. We even had to talk down a dude down from a scissor lift he drunkenly climbed and started having a LOUD breakdown right outside our second floor window.
I like fun and partying (love the Avenue) but I wouldn't mind if this place left the neighborhood.
"Can't stop what's coming"
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The old dude from No Country For Old Men