Al Ness: Animals

To the Editor:

Having lived in downtown Fargo for over three years I have learned a thing or two about downtown living.

Chiefly, college students are filthy party animals. While it may be true that “they are our future” it’s more the present that irritates me.

(Is screaming “WOOOOO” at the top of their lungs somehow supposed to be original?) Sort of like a drunken day-care with belligerent, rap-video wanna-be’s roaming the streets; supremely entitled, easily amused-easily offended toddlers puking and pissing everywhere. The ferocity of their coolness blows chunks as far as I’m concerned.

Yay, you’re the ginchiest generation EVER! Blah. So, whereas I used to warn them when I would see them with an open container on Broadway, that it is around a one-hundred dollar fine for that drink in hand. I believe a better option would be to impose a six-hour Community Service requirement on top of the hundred bucks and make the uber-cool party clowns clean up the mess they leave each and every weekend. Perhaps they could be known as the Sunday Club, picking up the cigarette butts, litter, vomit residue and other assorted detritus all over Downtown every Sunday afternoon.

Then, when I see the drunk and defiant little tykes stumbling and staggering into stupidity with beer in hand, I’m keeping my mouth shut.

Yeah, let them clean it up.

-Al Ness
Fargo