I hadn’t really planned on it anyway…but now I have made a conscious decision not to go. A free street festival celebrating Wauwatosa will require showing your ID to get into the fenced in festival area.
What? Are they afraid spontaneous voting will break out?
“There really hasn’t been any admission policy in the past. It’s just been an open-air, open-street festival with no real boundaries. There’s definitely some changes. In all honesty, I think this is going to be, and has to be, the new norm,” said Lt. Brian Zalewski, Wauwatosa Police Department spokesman.
Again, sad. But Zalewski assured me it’s getting harder to find festivals anywhere that don’t create a perimeter and checkpoints.
That’s right. TosaFest will have five checkpoints, staffed by beefy private security officers who will be eyeballing everyone’s IDs and fitting them with color-coded wristbands for adults, juveniles and volunteers.
Place all items on the conveyor belt including your shoes. Walk slowly through the X-ray machine. Wait you have been randomly selected for a full body search including cavity check. Thank you for flying… I’m mean welcome to TosaFest.
Maybe you could start a rival festival called Ed Fest for the multitudes who are unable to secure an ID.
Maybe you could read the article or if you didn’t, take your racist, classist assumptions and bigoted thinking some place else.
Nothing more enjoyable that going to a festival with the family only to have it split apart by separate areas. In Michigan the standard is only those 21 or older are allowed in the beer tent. The tent is secure and Ids/wrist bands are checked. No one under 21 allowed. No alcoholic beverages allowed out. So, Mom or a Dad have to take turns going in if they want to enjoy a cold beer. Nothing like standing by yourself staring out of a fenced in area at your family. It’s similar to the shame put upon those who smoke. If shame didn’t exist before it does now. What’s next… Putting the dunk tank behind a wall because maybe, just maybe, a nipple may be seen through a wet shirt. We live in a police state run by Extremist Christian wing nuts.