The beginning of the end for San Francisco? I think not.

[caramida]

ING, the new sponsor for the storied Bay to Breakers race (this coming Sunday, for those of you not paying attention), has forbidden certain traditional B2B activities.

Of course they're a Respectable Financial Services company, so for the sake of propriety, they've forbidden alchohol and nudity. Such things don't play in Peoria. You can't be a respectable financial services company and have drunken nakedness in your race! Still, do you really think anyone is going to listen to their pleas of dismay? No. This is San Fran-freaking-sisco. Every day is Halloween, and we're gonna let it all hang out because that's tradition for the Bay-to-Breakers! And that's one of the reasons you left Peoria anyway, right?

Someone ought to build a float featuring a gigantic orange lion, and ride naked atop the thing swilling a daquari. Someone hot, that is.

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I don't attend the Bay to Breakers myself, by the way. I'm just a Friday-afternoon sidewalk quarterback, to mangle a metaphor.

That is all.

Comments

[crayonbeam.livejournal.com]

Booze and boobs have always been illegal for events on the streets of San Francisco... it's just that mostly these regulations go unenforced.

While I support both activities, I'd be happy to lobotomize anyone who chooses to booze out of glass bottles. The B2B route is like a fucking mine field the next day with huge drifts of broken beer bottles left behind from the street cleaners. That part sucks majorly.

[caramida.livejournal.com]

Right there with you in re: the glass bottles.

wtf?!

[ca-snowflake.livejournal.com]

ok, so the alcohol thing, I can sort of understand them wanting to officially say "no".. I can even sort of see the nakedness ban, not that I agree with those, but it's sort of expected.

but no pets or rollerblading or anything like that? fuckers.

this isn't the boston marathon.. it's supposed to be FUN!

Harrumph!

[changinganswers.livejournal.com]

I'm amused that they banned nudity from it since ING is a Dutch company headquartered in Amsterdam. They don't seem to have problems with nudity in their hometown, so why here? As for the alcohol ban, that is likely more a city thing than anything. Open container laws and public intoxication, etc.

In general I find it odd that ING is the new sponsor since they sold off most of their S.F. divisions about six years ago to ABN AMRO. ING doesn't have a huge presence in the Bay Area anymore, so why sponsor a race here? Eh, oh well.

[cinchntouch.livejournal.com]

ING is freaking ridiculous. I think they should all smoke a doobie and relax.