Legal issues

It is no secret that BD has zero sympathy for anyone who has the unmitigated chutzpah to park their car in a privately owned parking lot and walk off to patronize another business, without any regard for the business owning the parking lot. If you don't have the sense to read the signs, you deserve what you get, and what you will pay when you pick up your car at the towing lot.

Many of these idiots believe it's their god-given right to park anywhere they want, justifying their logic by saying, The business is on Lower Greenville, it is what it is.

These are the same people who think our residential streets belong to them, even if they live in Plano or McKinney. Welcome to the wonderful world of Resident Parking Only, guys.

Towing happens dozens of times every weekend on Lower Greenville: Bar patrons are desperate to find a free parking space  - god forbid they should pay $10 to park on a secure lot - so they park on the Taco Cabana, Blockbuster, Dodie's or CVS parking lot. They wander away, not realizing that someone is watching them leave. Five minutes later their car is gone - probably to South Dallas, to a place you don't want to visit in the daytime, let alone at 4am.

When BelmontNA applied for membership in the Dallas Homeowners League nearly nine months ago, everyone knew Lower Greenville NA would protest their application due to overlapping boundaries, general dislike of stated goals (like Resident Parking Only), and disagreement with choices of bath soap.

It was no surprise that BelmontNA did not hear from the DHL until August, when they were invited to participate in the Boot Camp for neighborhood leaders. Since then, it's been absolute silence again.

So it comes as a really big surprise to find a letter from the DHL Board, finally calling for a hearing and outlining the process.

The BelmontNA board will meet shortly to discuss the process and plan a strategy for the hearing (all one hour of it).

All correspondence between the DHL, BelmontNA and LGNA will be posted on the BelmontNA website - click here

421.07 - Off-Duty Police employment at businesses where alcoholic beverages are dispensed or sold (made part of the General Orders and included in Special Orders December 15, 1994)

Update 10.9 - The TABC has started an investigation into why TABC Agents interfered with the recording of police action taken in a public place. According to an email from Robert Meissner, from the TABC's Office of Professional Responsibility (formerly known as the Internal Affairs Unit)...

...an administrative inquiry has been initiated into your allegations of unprofessional conduct on the part of the agency personnel involved.  You will receive written correspondence by mail documenting the agency's receipt of your information, along with documents to file a formal complaint against the officers involved. Upon conclusion of this investigation, a disposition letter will be sent to you citing the outcome of this investigation.

BD likes to celebrate Texas - OU Weekend like he celebrates St. Patrick's Day on Lower Greenville - far, far away.

But our dinner date ended early, so we wandered down the street to see how things were shaking. We were not expecting anything unusual and BD was not carrying the video camera.

Too damn bad, too. He walked right into a mass arrest of six persons in a truck who hit a small vehicle and then tried to get away. We guess they never saw the dozens of cops standing about 30 feet away on the corner.

Whisky Bar's Jim Slaughter has never denied having a perpetual you-know-what for BD and other neighborhood activists around Lower Greenville.

Ever since Slaughter was busted years ago for not having working toilets or hot water, or having bugs doing the Macarena in the well liquor, there's not a damn thing he hasn't tried in order to intimidate people he flat out just does not like.

He's posted BD's phone number on the front door of the bar, telling folks it's BD's fault people cannot dance in his bar, encouraging them to call and complain - which they did at 4am. And when BD started prosecuting these drunken fools, the calls stopped really fast.

Slaughter has left amazingly long voicemails for BD, decrying him for not respecting hardworking upstanding Americans trying to make a living out here and calling BD an illegal immigrant (Slaughter believes BD is a Jewish wetback just because he lived in Israel nearly thirty years ago).

Last year he told the DMN that his own saintly mother had to convince him not to sue BD in order to shut down this website.

On Sunday evening, Slaughter proved he is an absolutely dangerous - yet stupid - asshole.

Once again, BD sincerely regrets not carrying his pepper spray can every single time he walks out on Lower Greenville.