August 11, 2004
Metro party, Part 2
Some more ideas:
Take the Orange Line in from Vienna or New Carrolton.: It should be empty at least until Ballston, and everyone getting on there will be drunk. Coming inbound will save a nasty cab fare, as Chris points out in the comments. The Blue Line is out, as it passes through National and the Pentagon, but the Green Line from Greenbelt could work, as it takes a while to get down to U Street.
Nobody is getting arrested: Station managers don't patrol platforms, and Metro cops aren't going to be hanging out at East Falls Church counting stars. If nobody acts dumb, we'll be cool.
Avoid the last train of the night: Too crowded, and with too many Metro employees. If we see anyone who looks to be affilliated with WMATA, MPD, or any other instrument of repression, everyone has to get off and take the next train. If we can't, the party is over.
This will be more involved than brown-bagging on the train: We need party props that can be quickly stowed, so silly string and string-lights are out. Do they make battery-powered strobe lights?
Posted by rj3 at August 11, 2004 12:13 PM
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Here's your battery-powered strobe light. I have a boombox that we can use.
Posted by: MG at August 11, 2004 3:55 PM
Awesome. Tequila at Twinbrook? Drambuie at Deanwood? Some intrepid partiers in San Francisco have done this as well. See NYT article.
http://www.sanbrunobart.com/Bart2sfo/News/040129-1.shtml
Posted by: Oculus at August 11, 2004 4:02 PM
Cristal at crystal city
Posted by: chris at August 12, 2004 2:36 PM
Smirnoff at Silver Spring
Posted by: Amanda at August 12, 2004 4:14 PM
Jose Cuervo at U St. Cardozo?
Posted by: smith at August 13, 2004 6:48 PM