Friday, March 30, 2012

Noted

From the EV Grieve inbox... a warning from a reader about a Living Social deal... in which 1,164 people have purchased tickets for this on Sunday afternoon...



This spring, grab a basket fit for a grown-up and join in an epic egg hunt for adults: Pay $30 for one ticket to the Scavenger Egg Hunt in the East Village (regularly $60). Arrive decked out in a costume (for extra points) at SideBAR at noon on April 1 to enjoy two complimentary drinks and some appetizers during team registration. Once the three-hour hunt begins, you'll hop through the East Village and surrounding areas, while solving riddles, answering trivia questions, and deciphering picture challenges to clues as to where the eggs and Easter bunny are hidden — not to mention a few golden eggs containing gift certificates. Enjoy drink specials at neighborhood bars along the way, and conclude the journey with an after-party at a secret location.

Other recent area pub crawls have included:

The Furry Vest pub crawl

The Ugly Sweater pub crawl

St. Patrick's Day ...

The Greenwich Village Spring Bar tour ...

The Halloween pub crawl and scavenger hunt ...

The Viking Helmet pub craw ...

The King of Pop Pub Crawl...

The Snuggie pub crawl ...

The rugby pub crawl ...

The Red Dress Run ...

32 comments:

glamma said...

F*CK THIS LOSER SHIT AND GET THE HELL OUT OF THE LES

USE YOUR VOICE TO OPPOSE THIS UTTER CR@P BEFORE OUR AWESOME NEIGHBORHOOD BECOMES NOTHING BUT DISNEYLAND FOR YUPPIE LOSERS!

LvV said...

Why can't these people just sit in a bar or in their apartments and drink and talk to one another? Why does every holiday have to involve some sort of juvenile group event/game/costume? For fuck's sake, people: You are no longer in a fraternity or sorority. COLLEGE IS OVER, GROW UP

The least they could have done is held this shitshow on Saturday. Easter is a holy day, and lots of folks will have to battle these morons on their way to/from church. But that decision would involve caring about people other than themselves.

Anonymous said...

Oh yaaayyy, sooooo much fun!!! Did I mention yayyy??

Big Brother said...

I wish this was a subversive stunt aimed at the kind of Kidults who would pay $30 to go on an easter egg hunt. Grow the fuck up.

Anonymous said...

Not to disagree that this is obnoxious kidult behavior. But this weekend is NOT Easter - it is Palm Sunday. The following weekend is Easter.

It is April Fool's Day - which seems very appropriate.

Marty Wombacher said...

Bunnycon. I'm meeting friends that day at a bar and I pray this annoyance doesn't have it on their list of stops.

LvV said...

Oh, whoops. I suppose that is slightly better. Thanks for the clarification Anon 1:04.

/totally lapsed Catholic

Dan LD said...

This will join Santacon, Halloween and St. Patrick's Day in the Pantheon of Days on Which Humans Acting Like Complete Fucking Idiots.

Her, Suzanne76 said...

i just had to cancel an important sunday afternoon vet appt at st marks because i read this and dont want to risk some drunk piece of trash running into my bird carrier and knocking it over.
i suggest everyone who is sick of this dangerous, disruptive crap (IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY) start calling the police on these people MULTIPLE times during the day. let's all effect change. eNuff Z nuff

Anonymous said...

Calm it down people, it's just a scavenger hunt.

http://abc.go.com/shows/happy-endings/video-detail/moments/max-and-pennys-search/pl_PL55122011/vd_VD55178755?noredirect

Anonymous said...

I work in a bar in the LES and frankly none of the people from these types of events are worth the time of day. They dont tip, ask for insane amounts of water, sit around the bar like its a park bench and take up space that two grown up members of society would otherwise be eating and having genuine fun at. This is not a college town, stop trying to make it like that. The bars that perpetuate this kind of event should be made to pay for the cleanup and destruction of property caused. Im looking right at you, SideBar, Village Pourhouse, !3th Step..et al.

LIBERATION said...

Guess we know where everyone named Meghan will be this weekend.

Anonymous said...

It's a disruption to our lives to have thousands of people flood the neighborhood week after week with total disregard to those of us who live here. Enough is enough. Who do we send letters/emails/facebook posts and tweets to? Let's start a running list. Right here. Right now.

LIBERATION said...

@anon 2:55 Tweet your thoughts on the subject to @MikeBloomberg

Anonymous said...

Isn't this what Williamsburg is for?

Anonymous said...

What are the legalities for this? Do you need some kind of permit? This event is bringing 1,100 people into a neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon.

What responsibility lies with this SideBAR place or Living Social? What happens if one of these egg hunters runs into the middle of the street and gets struck by a cab?

Big Brother said...

RE: Permits

I found this info on an Act Up website:

As of February 2007 "ANY public gathering of 50 or more people - whether on foot, bicycle, or rollerskates - now requires a "permit" from the NYPD. And, just as the police have the power to grant permits, they also have the power to deny them."

Mark T said...

A permit is required to conduct a procession, parade or race within the City of New York and must be obtained from the Police Commissioner.

Source: NYCdotGOV

Crazy Eddie said...

@LIBERATION said-"Guess we know where everyone named Meghan will be this weekend"

And Heather! By the way, Sidebar is the worst fucking Frat Bar in the EV/US area, it's filled with A-holes* every time I walk by and it stinks of sour beer and vomit.
* http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/confessions-of-an-ivy-league-frat-boy-inside-dartmouths-hazing-abuses-20120328?print=true

Anonymous said...

"Like yah"
"But um..."
"OMG, like.."
"Yo, DUDE!"

.... all the above will be heard a megafold more than usual during this 'scavenger hunt'. Guaranfuckintee it!

Uncle Waltie said...

"What happens if one of these egg hunters runs into the middle of the street and gets struck by a cab?"

An extra tip for the cabby!

Anonymous said...

Does anyone know if it's the same bars and organizations who continually play host to these crawls? If they are going to host mobile block parties they need to be held accountable for the damage.

Anonymous said...

Let's not forget

Santacon 2012 - Neighborhood Takeover
Santacon 2011 - Neighborhood Feedback!
Santacon 2010 - Impassable Sidewalk Edition
Santacon 2009 - 10AM Warm-Up!

Anonymous said...

Can anyone explain the street hockey league on weekends in Tompkins Square Park?
Very strange aggro group of people who seem out of place in the 'hood, much like these gatherings. Also, terrible hockey players.

Anonymous said...

Wow. Calm yourself people. Maybe if they pitch this as an occupy wall street pub crawl, you would all be in favor.

Anonymous said...

If they all behave well, then great.

But I'm up for calling the cops when they step out of line. All that stupid behavior on St Patricks day and not a single cop to be seen.

A few hippies meet at Union Square and there are 50-100 cops all claiming overtime standing around glaring at them.

The yelling, puking, trashcan-throwing assholes should see some results of their behavior - I think a night in the tombs would help and the EV can go back to being a place to live and not a place for college kids to party.

Crazy Eddie said...

@Anony 5.13 PM-No, a OWS pub crawl would be just as obnoxious. I guess you’re a Sidebar kind of person. . As per Yelp:
“I overheard roughly 5-8 conversations about finances, financial reports, stocks and bonds. The crowd here is all 25-30 year old white guys who work somewhere that makes them wear a tie and ill fitting khakis. There were only a few girls here and those poor girls that I observed were made to share pitches of gross beer with their male co-workers who still wear backpacks to work and are now missing their Fantasy Football leagues. So hypothetically, if my name is Chase or Tim and I work for Bank of America or A.E.G I would love to come here to stare at the waitresses who all have hair longer then the length of the shorts they're wearing. But thats not me and I did not enjoy this bar.”
Always nice to have someone chime in to defend narcissism.

Uncle Waltie said...

A fair warning to my EV friends:
The morons have descended upon our neighborhood. Hopefully you've taken care of essentials and won't have to venture out. Unfortunately, I did not do that.

LvV said...

Anon 5:47 makes a good point. In Union Square at 10 AM today, there were cops in riot gear lining the west side of the park with absolutely frightening-looking machine guns and giant German shepherds (beautiful, but still scary). Nothing was even happening in the park yet -- they were just standing around laughing as cops carrying massive guns inexplicably do. The problem is that OWS is seen as a threat to social order; drunks on pub crawls are passive and brainless and only enforce the status quo.

I do NOT want to see riot cops on Avenue A come after Bunnycon-ers and St. Patrick's Day wastrels. All we are asking for is some ORDER, getting these swarms off the sidewalks, and a shitton of tickets handed out to screamers, property damagers, vomiters and other idiots.

It's not "just a scavenger hunt," Anon 2:20, it's another 1200-person asshole-fest (that is not even good for local business, per Anon 2:33). Scavenger hunts are for children and fraternity pledges. So which are you?

Hey19 said...

I know some great girls named Meghan and Heather.

Anonymous said...

Sidebar is still selling tickets to this foolish event:

<a href=">http://pulsd.com/new-york/promotions/sidebar/nyc-bar-crawl-scavenger-egg-hunt</a>

Anonymous said...

Did the World end on Sunday? I only saw (what looked like) one reveler in an ATM vestibule, but I wasn't walking the streets much.