[Coastal] question for the Houston area ...

[Steelquist, John F]

I agree with Michael's assessment - there's no such thing as "discreetly
wet".  However, at the Lake Houston site (as a State park), the rule was
that "general" admission attendees were not allowed visible, marked
alcohol containers - so, no beer bottles, etc.  But since the site had
overnight cabins, those staying in the cabins were welcome to bring (and
drink) alcohol, "in the vicinity" of the cabins, and could even take it
anywhere within the park so long as the "no visible, marked alcohol
containers" was met.  We promulgated the "alcohol in period containers
only" working in conjunction with the rangers, and they agreed that this
rule met the intent and letter of their rules, but that was then...

This sure sounds like a question for the seneschalate (although getting
good and current information from the park rangers is a *very* good
idea).

Ulsted

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Silverhands [mailto:silverhands at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:32 PM
To: Coastal Region of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
Subject: Re: [Coastal] question for the Houston area ...


On Jun 19, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Bulgarelli Maria wrote:

> Ulstead,
>
> Thanks for the info.  I thought the $3 per day tripper charge was part

> of it.  I was wondering how it would work out as the guy was telling 
> me the prices.  The ranger I spoke to said we'd have to be careful 
> about drinking.  He said they weren't going to go around sniffing 
> peoples drinks so if we did have drinking out there it would have to 
> be discretely wet.
>
> This is all great info though.  Thanks Ulstead.  I now have something 
> to go on when I go out next weekend.
>
> Maria

Be *very* careful of "discretely wet". Per seneschal's and society
policy, there ain't no such thing.

A site is either wet, or dry. If it's dry, and someone advises you that
you can sneak booze in if you're "discrete", you're just asking for
trouble. All it takes is one "oops" from one drunk reveler with the
wrong law officer on site... or, worse yet, the wrong law officer
finding an "oops" in the hands of a minor... and *someone* is going to
jail. Quite possibly, the event steward.

Some advice from an olde farte: don't go there. Just say "no". :-)

Michael
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