Its called “state” patty’s day not saint patty’s day, so there were no saints out this past weekend. State Patty’s day was one wild weekend for Penn Staters and the many out of towners who joined them in this wild pre-spring break party. Drinks were running ramped up and down the streets of state college. Downtown was a hot spot, and local road beaver was filled with a parade of drunks stumbling around with green shirts and plastic jewelry on, yelling, crying and laughing the night away. Anywhere from funky green hats, to Ireland flag covered horns, the state patty’s day pride was in full swing on Saturday. The amount of alcohol consumed by state college on this day is well beyond my understanding. Just from walking around I saw more kids with alcohol then ever before. They were carrying anything from boxes of wine coolers, handles of vladimer, to 48 packs of beer. “Was that a 48 pack? I didn’t even know they had those” I said to myself as a large Irish looking kid from out of town carried one towards an apartment. At the house parties people were friendlier than normal and gave cups out to complete stranger, letting them fill up from the multiple kegs available. Many local bars were told to close by police, or police would pin certain underage’s on them from the past. The reason is they are trying to ultimately eliminate state Patty’s day. Regardless of what they do, people will still celebrate one way or another.
I saw a few cases of mayhem, one on the white loop Saturday night. The bus driver gets up and screams at kids trying to enter from the back of the bus. “hey this is discharge only” the bus driver shouted because there were too many people on the bus to begin with. Again the bus driver shouts into the crowded bus “you in the green shirt get off the bus now.” Everyone just laughed because no one knew who he was yelling at, “Everyone is wearing green” I said to myself. The next stop was the meridian and the bus driver stopped 300 ft after the stop to make sure no one else got on and only people could get off. The amount of people at each party went to astounding numbers with overcrowding drunk college kids everywhere, there were bound to be some fights. A local Frat, hosting a party was not happy when a girl wanted to leave. A nice guy who was not in the Fraternity, escorted her towards the door before being clocked in the eye by a frat boy. He went to the hospital, received four stitches, a damaged cornea, his nasal passage was pushed in a mm, and he also had a crazy story to tell for this week with a nice black eye to make it all true.
Canyon was in usual swing Although the tip bell was being used a lot more. Non-residents couldn’t get enough of the banging bell, so they tipped there dollars on the bell. Canyon wings were very packed as well. A girl working behind the counter mixed up an order and caused one customer to bust out yelling at her. She was yelling back and the two went at it until the owner came and gave the man his rightfully deserved wings. Now McDonalds was even more packed. A cop stood at each entrance making sure no mayhem was going on, as compared to the line at canyon wings. McDonalds was at a controlled mayhem level. People were dropping change; others were picking it up and ordering food with change. The dollar menu seemed to be a favorite for these drunken college students.
Overall State Patty’s day was just another wild weekend here at Penn State. This time with a lot more people and an excuse for everyone to get more wasted than the weekend
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