Underage Harvard, BU students get two bars hauled before licensing board

Managers at Guilt on Warrenton Street had to explain to the Boston Licensing Board today how a 19-year-old Harvard student wound up requiring an ambulance ride to the hospital for extreme ethanol poisoning on Dec. 1, while the owner of T's Pub on Commonwealth Avenue had to explain how a 19-year-old BU student managed to get a rum and ginger ale on Nov. 28.

Guilt managers said they discovered a woman "kind of staggering" on the dance floor during an 18+ private party. Managers told the board the woman, who turned out to be just 19, did not get a drink at the bar and was never in the club's designated drinking area - as proved by the fact she had no 21+ wrist band and no 21+ stamp on her hand - and through a review of footage from their surveillance photos.

How'd she get so drunk an ambulance had to be called?

Manager Charles Delpidio said he had no clue. However, he did note that bouncers confiscated "a large amount of alcohol" from guests during inspections before they were allowed in.

Board Chairwoman Christine Pulgini suggested Guilt reconsider 18+ events if it was going to have this sort of problem.

Over at T's Pub, meanwhile, detectives on an unannounced inspection around 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 28 found a table with a number of young-looking women - one of whom turned out to be a 19-year-old BU student who had used a Florida license belonging to a 23-year-old woman to get in.

Bar manager John O'Sullivan said the problem was that the photo on the license "looked exactly like her" and that the problem was compounded by the fact that, at least to him and his doorman, the woman did not look 19, she looked "23, 24 or 25." And since the license was real, it was cleared by the license scanner the bar uses, he said.

BPD Sgt. Det. Robert Mulvey acknowledged the woman and the photo were somewhat similar.

The board decides Thursday what action, if any, to take.