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somertimeoh wrote >>
JonMyers wrote >>
I wish they'd introduce hard liquor to the event.Totally agree. Warm draft beer, gross :(
I'm with you guys. I don't like beer at all. If there were a Mojito truck set up, I would gladly support that way. ;)
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ComFest No BYOB Signs
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somertimeoh
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Walker wrote >>
somertimeoh wrote >>
JonMyers wrote >>
I wish they'd introduce hard liquor to the event.Totally agree. Warm draft beer, gross :(
I'm with you guys. I don't like beer at all. If there were a Mojito truck set up, I would gladly support that way. ;)
Oh, that would be nice! I will say that I feel less bad about bringing in my own liquor because I still buy a Comfest mug (or 2) and I'll go to one of the vendors to sell me my mixer - hopefully one with a really cool dude that gets what I'm doing and why I only want half my cup filled, lol.
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pez
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Motorist wrote >>
You know, if you volunteer (support) Comfest, the free beer flows. The ratio of free beer to volunteer time is usually pretty good with those people. I've always ended up with more beer tokens than I can use.Which puts their liquor permit in jeopardy just as much as people bringing in outside alcohol. ORC prohibits permit holders from giving away any alcohol, to anyone. Not sure how well it's enforced, but it's the law.
BTW: I won't be sneaking in a cooler of beer or anything else, we generally have a drink or two with friends at their home, then head down. I'll generally buy a beer or two down there, but Comfest isn't really an excuse for me to get hammered.
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lifeontwowheels
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pez wrote >>
Motorist wrote >>
You know, if you volunteer (support) Comfest, the free beer flows. The ratio of free beer to volunteer time is usually pretty good with those people. I've always ended up with more beer tokens than I can use.Which puts their liquor permit in jeopardy just as much as people bringing in outside alcohol. ORC prohibits permit holders from giving away any alcohol, to anyone. Not sure how well it's enforced, but it's the law.
BTW: I won't be sneaking in a cooler of beer or anything else, we generally have a drink or two with friends at their home, then head down. I'll generally buy a beer or two down there, but Comfest isn't really an excuse for me to get hammered.That is more of a grey area though, isn't it? I have a friend who is a bartender and she'll comp me a few drinks now and then after I've house sat and watched the cats for her. Seems like this is pretty typical at a lot of bars-keep a comp list behind the bar and keep track of the free shots and what not. Isn't Comfest doing the same with volunteers?
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Core_Models
Columbus
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IF you can't take a cooler full of beer to Goodale 362 days a year and sit around drinking it, why should you be able to do it this weekend?
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somertimeoh
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Core_Models wrote >>
IF you can't take a cooler full of beer to Goodale 362 days a year and sit around drinking it, why should you be able to do it this weekend?Well, technically, I've noticed that you can get away with this as long as the cops are busy doing other things. Blizzard weekend and well um, yesterday. But I wouldn't know anything about this first hand, of course ;)
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GW_Justice
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ComFest really doesn't have a lot of people pushing them to make more money. They do OK, so the idea that "no BYOB" is to make more money is not true.
What the ComFest has is a shortage of volunteers. The thousands of bottles and cans that are brought to the fest every years have to be moved to the recycling area, sorted, and placed in containers. That is many hours of volunteer work that should go to do something better for the community. (Hint - volunteer sign up at ComFest website).
"No BYOB" is just part of the ComFest commitment to make people think about their impact on the environment. If this is a bummer to you, and you are thinking about "sticking it to the man" by sneaking in bottles - maybe this is not the festival you should be attending.
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CDS sherman
East Franklinton
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bunch a stick in the muds....
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hivner1
clintonville
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So the issue is a volunteer shortage? Those threatening signs should have been substituted for volunteer requests from the beginning. Big black and white threating signs with city ordinance codes on them do absolutely nothing. People will be people. Here are questions that are running through my head:
How many people are attending on the average now? Is bigger necessarily better? I am frankly really over the ridiculous crowd and, for the first time ever, I am ambivalent about attending this year.
Is the volunteer force matching the expected turnout?
Is it possible to come up with ways of reducing the turnout (and no, dont say that people would be deprived of the comfest "experience")?
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pez
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Core_Models wrote >>
IF you can't take a cooler full of beer to Goodale 362 days a year and sit around drinking it, why should you be able to do it this weekend?You shouldn't be able. But in the same vein, if the police can't stop and search you and your belongings without cause 362 days a year, why should ComFest be any different?
Recognizing that the chances of police searches is small, do as has been mentioned here. Post a sign or spread the word about the need for volunteers, the fact that the event is partially funded with beer sales and the need to take your trash with you when you leave.
I guess my objection is that it's counter to the tradition and spirit of ComFest to give the appearance that the wrath of government will get me if I choose to wander across the park with a cooler full of beer.
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Core_Models
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As far as I remember, this year is identical to every other year. You've always been sneaking beer in, there's always been warnings posted not to and threats of searches and so forth.
That's the tradition I remember.
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lifeontwowheels
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Is this a problem at any other festival?
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GW_Justice
Grandview Hts.
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Hivner1, the BYOB problem at ComFest is both a volunteer and an environmental issue. If they had more volunteers the bottles would not be so bad to deal with. They don't want to say to the public "volunteer more and we will be cool with bottles", because it doesn't matter how many volunteers are working processing the bottles, any number more than a few is too many.
Maybe they could make the publicity about "No BYOB" more focused on the environmental effects of all that glass (even though it is recycled, there are better ways to move beer than lots of glass bottles). The ComFest has been trying to get this message out for years. It is routinely ignored.
So now they are getting tough and threatening to involve the police. I wish there was another way to get people's attention.
Other ways have not worked.Posted 2 years ago # -
GW_Justice
Grandview Hts.
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Oh, and for the people who think ComFest is too crowded and dusty and hot -
You are right. It is too crowded and dirty and hot and has too many hippies and too many rules. PLEASE STAY HOME!
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Core_Models wrote >>
IF you can't take a cooler full of beer to Goodale 362 days a year and sit around drinking it, why should you be able to do it this weekend?City council passes an ordinance which enables all the downtown events to sell alcohol and have it consumed within the event permit area, the director of Rec and Parks also authorizes it.
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lizless
Columbus/Hocking Hills
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If you are concerned about our neighborhood and the environmental impact, buy Comfest beer.
A single beer keg can last approximately 30 years, be reused nearly 400 times and keeps around 43,000 bottles out of our landfills.
I usually make several trips back and forth with bottles and cans for recycling just from the trash left in front of my storefront and surrounding area. If you care about the neighborhood, leave your bottles at home, buy a reusable cup and drink draught.
And yes, I vote for mojitos too...in a reusable cup too!
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HolyJuan
Westerville, OH
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Here's what I have heard: ComFest has a strict "No Outside Alcohol" policy. There will be partitioned off areas with port-a-potties near the entrances where any guests who have alcohol in their bellies will be asked to sit and wait until they pee it out. If you had a rum based cake or beer brats, you will be asked to pass those as well.
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