Bluto's not welcome on Lower Greenville Avenue anymore

With plans for a bar on the SMU campus on hold for until at least the Second Coming, the burning question therefore becomes:

Where will all those fine, upstanding (as long as they are sober, at least) students go to party, lose their money and possibly their virginity??

According to the Dallas Police Department and the TABC, the answer is not Lower Greenville, at least not for a long time.

The local gendarmes have put a major dent in what was the primary source of income for many scumbars on Thursday evenings - Road Trips to Lower Greenville Bars.

According an email sent out very early Friday morning,

The TABC received information that a large SMU fraternity was having multiple parties with a majority of underage patrons at Lower Greenville Bars on Thursday night. TABC mounted an inspection and asked for DPD assistance.

TABC agents warned the hosting bars concerning the law regarding underage consumption and sale, and two of those bars declined the fraternity parties.

One did not.

[BD note: The uncooperative bar was identified late this afternoon as The Torch, located on the 5600 block of Sears behind the old Arcadia site.]

TABC agents and DPD officers went to that bar and observed for underage age consumption. DPD officers arrested two students at the door arriving in an intoxicated state, while TABC agents confiscated several false ID's.

Because of the officers' presence and the large numbers of underage patrons, the group left shortly thereafter.

Meanwhile, back at SMU...

At the same time, two full charter buses were leaving SMU for Lower Greenville. Event organizers detoured the buses to other bars, but TABC and DPD did not know the new destination.

DPD officers made a search of the area, found the buses and notified TABC agents.

As a result of that inspection, two more citations for minor consumption and one arrest for Public Intoxication was made. A TABC Administrative Case will be investigated against that bar for allowing Underage Consumption.

As you might imagine, the underage consumption party was also over very quickly.