It seems like almost every year the police make a huge deal about how this year is going to be different, about how Foxfield will ruin your career if you break the law. Well, unless I have been living blind, in a shelter, veiled in secrecy, a huge number of people break the law at Foxfield.
Of the 24,000 people who visit Foxfield each spring, only 85 people were arrested. If anyone does the math on that means that less than 0.4% of the people out there were caught breaking the law. 84 of those people were in the student section. So, let’s figure this one out.
Let’s say half of the 24,000 are in the Foxfield section, and about half of those are underage. That means about 6,000 people will be illegally drinking at Foxfield. If 84 of 6,000 arrests were made, that means about 1.5% of those breaking the law were caught. This doesn’t include people who are DUIing or people who are doing public intoxication type things.
Hmmmmm….seriously?!
So, if you get arrested, please note: you are REALLY unlucky. Breakdown of those trying to arrest you:
81 Albemarle County Police
31 ABC Agents
17 Officers from the Sheriff Department
3 Bicycle Offices
110 RMC Private Security Officials
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Grand Total: 242 People Trying to Get You
On another note, don’t resist arrest like this guy! People, the bottomline is this: We know you are going to break the law, but don’t drink and drive, don’t act like an asshole and you will be alright. Remember to read our great Foxfield preview!
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Screw Christmas, its obvious that Foxfield is Jesus’ real birthday.
I was told there would be no math.
Yeah, bottom line is, don’t be an asshole, and you’ll be fine.
You men might have to work pretty hard to achieve the non-asshole thing.
Hey hey hey… its nurture, not nature. Don’t you go blaming my Y chromosome.
I was just reading their rules (http://www.foxfieldraces.com/html/newprocedures.htm) and apparently they are trying to keep people from bringing glass bottles into Foxfield this year. This shit is either going to be unenforcable, or its going to cause a lot of trouble. I know that there are plenty of people coming into town from DC, Richmond, or Madagascar or whatever who have probably not heard about this, and they are not going to be happy if all their booze is confiscated. Especially considering the fact that for some bizarre reason they don’t seem to actually sell alcohol anywhere inside the race. Oh and I hope that all the high rollers with their nice spreads remember to only bring boxed wine too.
Well, actually, sounds as if you can bring glass if your Chateau de Snobby Grapes is only available in glass bottles; just don’t be tacky and drink straight from the bottle:
If you cannot escape using bottles and the beverage is available only in bottles, please bring plastic cups and pour the beverage into the cup, then deposit the bottle in a trash receptacle. If you are seen drinking a beverage from a bottle, the bottle will be confiscated. If the beverage comes in plastic as well as glass, please be aware that your glass container may be confiscated. Please plan ahead.
Seriously? Are they going to carry around a list of what comes in plastic as well as glass bottles to keep track? Weird.
Also, does that Lego-man have a raspberry on his head?
@ 8 Yes. Yes they are. In fact the document is over 800 pages long, and not alphabetized, so I would expect delays at the gate. But remember, no matter how frustrated you get with the long wait, don’t be an asshole or you will be immediately arrested. Have fun!
/ he wore a raspberry beret….
@8:
242 cops?? Jeez, why bother? Foxfield exists solely to promote drunken bad behavior. If they are going to sponsor a drunkfest just to bust people they should hold the event inside the razor wire enclosure at the Charlottesville Correctional Facility. At the end of the day all they would need to do is let out all three Foxfield attendees who remain sober every year (you know who you are!)
Who knows? I’d just presume that anything in glass and small enough to be pocketed for later personal use is, ipso facto, an item also available in plastic.
I hope that the good people of the ABC realize that the only moonshine worth drankin comes in a glass mason jar.
It’s going to be like every other concert tailgate you’ve ever been to where glass is prohibited. No big deal. Be low key, respectful, and keep your glass at the bottom of the cooler and you can drink whatever you want.
It means nothing of the sort.
The fact that so few people are arrested to Foxfield tells us that the vast majority of idiots who attract the attention of the police are told to dump their drinks and move along.
oh man, if i had a drink for every time i’ve had to dump out a drink, i…
oh.
the important thing is i had a
raspberry on my headonion hanging from my belt(as was the style at the time)/geek
Oh wait. Lego man.
/damn you sense of humor cancer!
@16,17: if i didn’t know me, and i didn’t know you, i’d think we were both fucking retarded.
and i’d be right!
sofa king wee todd it
I lub you crazy knuckleheads. Sanity is way overrated.
@16 i take it you wore a big yellow onion on your belt, what with white onions being unavailable because of the war and all?
i don’t see what all the fuss is about. no glass bottles is a perfectly cromulent rule.
I was just amused by the idea they’d be able to identify which glass bottles also come in the plastic variety and therefore should be confiscated.
@22 it is, and i don’t see the problem either. it embiggens all of us to embrace public servants’ attempts to protect us from ourselves.
@24
Agreed parlie. Much like a noble spirit. It embiggens the smallest man.
If I get hammered before going to a party, would I be pretarded?
Do you all feel smarter when you use $5 words? Do you have your thesaurus out when typing your responses? I would hope that if you really wanted to be cool, you would go old school and pull out the dictionary with some inkling of the word you want to use and just want to verify its spelling and meaning. Probably not I suppose.
was that a serious comment? do your wiki research and come back in the morning. we’ll be waiting.
seems like a perfectly cromulent word to me.
I iz smart. I lub 5 dolla werds. Werd.
i love werd. I use it all the time, just like gud. Gud is a 5.50 dolla werd. Gud werd.
how much is inkling worth?
$6.95 at least
lolo baby! I was looking for you last nite!
I was there - I was looking for you too, but I don’t really know what I’m looking for, so I stopped
It was fun - I got soaked coming out of there. I think Thor needs to do something about this weather since he is godlike and all…
Oh man, I want to be cool. From now on, I am going to pull out the dictionary before I post. Because thesauruses are so passé. Hey, what’s a synonym for douchebag?
you’re a synonym for douchebag.
@27- I always have my tyrannosaurus close at hand when I write my responses. He has real bad carnivore breath but he knows all the $5.00 words.
@36- “contemptible person” is synonymous with douchebag. I know because I checked with my tyrannosaurus.
I don’t know. I thought #27 was a veritable font of perspicaciousness. Vim and vigor, too. And a Twinkie™. Plus seven. Dot com.
I got fucked in a mudpatch at Foxfield.
Your parents must be so proud.