Chuck,

I think the words "original factory container" pretty much covers the breast pump issue. On the other hand, banning the drinking of breast milk from a beer bong would be fine with me.

Am I the only one who thinks "The Beer Bong Banners" would be a good name for a rock band? ;-)

I think there are really two legitimate sides to this issue. I've shared a river with a bunch of drunks and it seriously inhibits my enjoyment of it. I don't like to think that I'm a party-pooper. Indeed, I'd go ballistic if they wanted to ban alcohol altogether (as beer river floats are fun). Ideally, there'd be two rivers, one for rowdiness and the other for families. Absent that, a beer bong ban seems like a good compromise.

Alex, I think the key for me is in this passage: "Residents have complained of drunken, lewd and violent behavior on the rivers, but officials said the stepped-up law enforcement has had a big effect over the past few years."

Well, if stepped-up law enforcement has had a big effect, then what is the beer bong ban for? And if not, then why not? It seems to me that you can still cite people for being drunk and disorderly whether or not they used a beer bong to get that way. The marginal gain of this new law is unclear to me.

Thinking back on my days as a college student, my enjoyment of the river was more likely to be marred by the inevitable inclusion of at least one member of the tubing party who neglected to bring money/food/beer/cigarettes and who usually bummed all of the above from me. Could we ban that kind of thing too? Please?

As for banning the beer bong, all I can say is this: Kids, learn to shotgun a beer. There's a scene in the movie The Sure Thing that gives a pretty good how-to. "Original factory container"? Not a problem.

Yep, if every drink must come directly from "the factory," then only breast-feeding is going to be legal in New Braunfels.

When baby bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have baby bottles.

It would be better to ban all alcohol from the rivers. Families could then enjoy their time on the Guadalupe and the Comal without having to worry about drunken cretins making fools of themselves and ruining family vacations.

Galveston and Fort Lauderdale banned alcohol and they now have a thriving family-friendly tourist industry. The idiot "city fathers" in New Braunfels who resist a ban should have the drunks urinating on their lawns, their daughters propositioned, their children cursed at and beer cans thrown into their yards. After a summer of this they would welcome a beer ban.

Beer Bong Ban? I say "Ridiculous!" Where I live the river calls for fun, sun, and beer, maybe those families looking for a fun, wholesome, beer ridden environment, should go to Disney World or something more family oriented, orone half of the river (lets say the beginning) you could have only families that way when people start out on the river they are not wasted at the beginning of their canoe trip then at the end have the cool fun havers with their beer bongs on the other half of the river. Whaddya say?

Did the "Beer Bong Ban" actually pass?

I am a female who loves to beer bing BUT, I know my limits... as do MOST of my friends. I am older than them, but they are between the ages of 21 and 24.

We go to the river to have fun, drink beer and just have an all out good time.

Anyway, I just wanted to know if it did indeed pass before I invest in one.

Thanks,
Vanessa

I think it's ridiculous to even think about banning alchohol or Beer Bongs on the river, I have been floating down the guadalupe since i was a little boy and i remember loving to go down the river with my uncle and brothers just laughing at all the older people getting drunk making fools of theirselves including my uncle and his friends and now that i'm old enough to drink its a lot more fun because your the one getting laughed at but its all worth it and i love taking my four hosed beer bong down the river and getting smashed, So i think it will take all the fun away.

I've floated the river twice down there, and have only seen a small minority of "families" (many of the "parents" had more liquor tied to the tube than me). Most of the patrons are college age kids relaxing for the summer. Does it seem anymore logical to ban rolling papers? No! I don't take my kids to the strip club for lunch- so why are we worrying about banning such things as garden hoses used to chug beer? Live and let live!

I've floated the river a couple of times this month and to tell you the truth I find it quite amusing to see the college students get drunk. In the past 2 times that I've been down there I did not see many beer bongs at all.

i think they should ban breast pumping