Lineup of borgs at Transit Police HQ, including one tagged "Shipping Up to Borgston."
Making good on their pledge to aim for an alcohol-free St. Patrick's parade, Boston Police - and their counterparts at Transit Police - confiscated borg after borg - gallon jugs full of colored alcoholic mixtures, not all of them green, many tagged with festive sayings.
Transit Police seized several bags worth of borgs at Park Street, where people tried to bring them on the Red Line ride to South Boston:
Boston Police, meanwhile, were also kept busy yelling at people to get off roofs and out of a construction area at Broadway and L Street, as well as responding to after-parade fights in the Burger King and Walgreens parking lots. Also, somebody went around just punching random people in the face - police ran across at least four victims.
Police and Boston EMS were also kept busy responding to cases of falling-down drunk people, some teens, along the parade route, both during and after the parade.
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By jmeltzer
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 2:35pm
Your borgs will be assimilated.
You can take my borgs but I can still get my booze
By CLiff
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 2:36pm
The busiest liquor store in Boston today is Land of Beer at South Station
For the uninitiated
By tachometer
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 3:11pm
Borg is an acronym for "black out rage gallon" and has nothing to do with Frank Zappa.
I'd love to test the alcohol content of those BORGs
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 3:40pm
Those things can be pure booze and mio, but young friends have also told me of using them with straight up gatorade so that people would think they are drinking when they weren't. This is apparently a feature.
It would be interesting to see what was really in them and how much.
Many thanks
By Starluna
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 6:25pm
I had no idea what it stood for. I understood what it was, just didn't know the acronym. Of course, I'm hoping to promptly forget it because I probably could use that brain cell for something else. 😊
No trouble on Telegraph Street
By Anonymous
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 4:03pm
Plenty of surreptitious drinking but no boorish behavior. Well-managed parade. Very visible BPD and MSP. Great friendly interaction between parade participants and crowd. And yes, Mayor Michelle Wu walked the route and was respectfully received and applauded. Great weather making for a great day, and parties continue, again no boorish behavior. I feel like it's 1975 all over again. My faith in humanity may yet be restored.
Wait
By Will LaTulippe
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 4:51pm
You felt like it was 1975 in Southie, and that makes you feel GOOD?!
South Boston in 1975
By Ron Newman
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 5:19pm
Plenty of the spectators and participants in today's parade would have felt extremely unwelcome anywhere in Southie in 1975 (and for several decades after that).
Move
By JamesPB
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 4:10pm
This friggen parade elsewhere.. maybe Downtown or the South Shore. Southie is way too small for 1MM~ people, not to mention it's legit the most gentrified (NOT Irish) urban neighborhood on the east coast.
There is already a big parade on the South Shore
By Ron Newman
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 4:52pm
Scituate St. Patrick's Day parade. Same day as South Boston's. Adam and I both went there in 2019, resulting in this post.
(Also, downtown is much smaller than South Boston.)
Hold on a minute ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 6:13pm
You want these people driving?
People were pretty well behaved where I was
By Ron Newman
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 5:03pm
near the end of the parade route, around Dorchester Street and Old Colony Boulevard. Plenty of people drinking beers, more or less discreetly, but no problems resulting from that. I didn't see any borgs.
Yeah eff off
By Username Unknown
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 9:40pm
Sorry but I am not leaving my fully permitted and inspected roof or roof deck just because some LEO's yell up to me. I am not aware of any law that prevents me from being on my roof or deck during a parade. Hope all had fun today.
Permitted and inspected
By Ron Newman
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 10:46pm
seem like the key words here. I saw people on roofs without any protective railing, which combined with drinking can lead to serious injury. And I really worried about the guy who decided to jump from one roof to the next one, over a gap of several feet.
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