Public safety

For the past few years, BD has pulled the Public Intox arrest database from the Dallas Police Department and posted a list of people who were celebrating on Lower Greenville just a little harder than the law allows. Welcome to the 2009 version of BD's Public Intoxication Page of Shame. By the end of this year, it will be the page with the most hits on this website. Happens every year.

Lower Greenville is a great place to get shit-faced drunk. It's a great place to get busted for public intoxication.

A Public Intoxication citation means you were not only a danger to others around you, but you very much a danger to yourself and could not be allowed to continue on your way wherever (even if you were adamant in insisting that Martians were waiting for you up the street).

According to DPD stats, nearly 760 citations were issued for Public Intoxication in 2009 in the area bounded roughly by Central Expressway, Mockingbird Lane, Skillman Avenue, Ross Avenue and Henderson Avenue. If someone is listed more than three times, he / she is probably a member of the homeless population in the area.

The existence of a magic bubble over Lowest Greenville, where problems like illegally operating bars that would not be open for ten minutes in North Dallas can stay in business for years without interference, is such a fact of life as to be regarded as gospel. And this week, one business is getting its chance to tell City Hall - Up yours, twice!

Every Christmas on Lowest Greenville, you can count on three things - Santa will deliver toys, Hanukah Harry will deliver better toys, and one of the scumbar owners will put a tent on his property without any permit. And this year was no different.

Except this time, a full court press by local neighborhood associations and City Council Member Angela Hunt made sure the tent came down. And it ain't going back up.

Two more bars expected to announce major changes after New Year

Ibero ULC, Lowest Greenville's gangbanger destination of choice, has been shut down by a one-two punch from the TABC and the property's owner. Ibero has not opened its doors for two weekends, and former employees are begging for jobs at other bars on the strip.

Update 12/22/2009 - Local law enforcement officials tell BarkingDogs that Ibero was offered a 45-day closure to start in late January 2010 or risk more than $40,000 in fines and penalites. After accepting the closure, the property owner (who also controls the liquor permit), told them to take a hike immediately.

According to BD's sources, here is how Ibero was squeezed out of business

BD took a walk on the strip last evening, and was hit with enough good gossip to fill a few pages here.

Let's start with the high (low?) points, and work our way down the tubes.

DPD reports a sexual assault at a bar on the 1900 block of Greenville Avenue (Sunday note: The DPD is not convinced this incident actually took place at the noted location, but the report has not been updated yet) late Thursday evening. The report is online at this link.

Ibero might - just might - be closing its doors (from my lips to God's ears). Sources tell BD that current (former?) Ibero employees are knocking on the doors of other bars on the strip, saying Ibero is going to close after New Years Eve. We've asked TABC and DPD for information - details to follow. It was closed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, but Club 180 was open.

While being delinquent on your liquor beverage bills is a way of life for some bar owners, there are an unusually large number of past-dues in our area. The latest TABC delinquent list (which means they can't buy beer or liquor until the bills are paid) includes the following bars in 75206 - Blue Collar (Henderson), Glo Lounge (Henderson), Greenville Avenue Public House (Greenville), Hector's on Henderson (Henderson), Ibero (Greenville), Stoney's Bottle Bargains (Upper Greenville), Trader Vic's (Central/Mockingbird), and Zymology (Greenville, closed earlier this year).

BD will post the 2009 Dallas Police Department Public Intoxication Arrestees list for Lowest Greenville in late January. If you have not yet been busted for PI on Lower Greenville, you still have a few weeks left to get in the paddy wagon and on the list.