A video sent to Boston 25 showed pushing, shoving, and punches being thrown.
The restaurant and bar closed early and Saugus Police Chief Michael Ricciardelli called the disturbance unacceptable and disgusting.
But in the Northeast its arguably the biggest night of the year.
This is a polynesian restaurant/bar, on the night before Thanksgiving.
I was dismayed to see thatKarim had already got to it.
I wanted to be mad that a guy I think is from LA?
For example-
Karim’s Blog- Unreal video here out of Kowloon in Saugus on Blackout Wednesday.
I can’t stop watching.
A second hat tip to the DJ who never stopped performing under immense pressure.
Clutch like you read about.
And if you’re throwing hands to David Guetta, you have to continue until someone’s knocked out.
Those are just the rules.
The camera work done on this was top-notch.
It just kept on providing.
The guy bleeding from his head after getting a bottle smashed on it.
Tyler Seguin, Boston Terrier legend, in the background in a square up on the TV.
The DJ letting that shit play on.
The cops struggling to control the crowd.
Just nonstop chaos for thirty seconds.
I’ll allow it.
Here’s the thing about Kowloon, it is the bluefin tuna swimming amongst a sea of Skipjacks.
Especially when you consider there really isn’t that crazy of an Asian population necessarily compared to everywhere else.
There’s basically a smaller, toned-down version of the Kowloon in every town in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
And they all crush.
The menues are almost nearly identical, but the food is fucking incredible.
(MSG is an amazing thing).
So these spots are rights of passage for almost every high school kid in the area.
For us, we had the Dragon-88 on Shrewsbury St. in Boylston.
I was fucking TERRIFIED walking in.
But it was all for naught.
Don’t be fooled by the foo-foo floral accouterments and slices of cirtus heaven.
For they are floating on an ABV% that would confuse Will fucking Hunting.
And see that pretty little flame in the middle symbolizing a volcano?
Yah that’s Bacardi 151.
As in 151 proof.
Something I didn’t even realize isn’t even legal to be sold in most states.
Stocking up for NFL Sundays or a long holiday weekend was a fucking nightmare I remember back then.
Made zero sense.)
You could smoke in all of these places because why couldn’t you?
The owners all chain-smoked.
The entire kitchen staff chain-smoked.
There would be pregnant women in there chain smoking for crying out loud.
The absolute best part of these places were that nobody ever fought in them.
(See how I’m bringing this full circle?)
It’s legit a nightly occurrence.
And the reason bouncers in and around Boston have some of the toughest jobs I know.
(Another big eye-opener when moving to the Midwest.
“Guys don’t go out looking to just start fights every night here?
The owners and staff, and the police.
But these fucks had to ruin all that.
The Saugus Board of Selectmen is awaiting receipt of a police report detailing the violent melee.
Upon reviewing the details, the board will weigh in on potential violation of the liquor rules and regulations.
That’s right, The Rocket, Jared Carrabis.
Because that’s what a good journalist does.
I asked him his thoughts on this incident, and the resulting arrests being made.
Here’s what he had to say-
Jared raised a fair, but critical point here.
My friend Magee and I joke about this all the time.
He lives in Chicago now also, but he’s from Tewksbury originally.
It took both of us moving out there to realize it wasn’t this way everywhere.
If you’re from “Chicago”, you’re from Chicago.
You may think I’m joking but it’s far from a joke.
It’s allegiance like you’ve never seen before.
Ive seen family members fight family members, like scenes from Civil War movies, over townie disputes.
My towns better than your town@$#^!
And makes no sense.
But thats New England.
We took it so for granted.
But I put up with the bastardized Italian places everywhere here and dont nitpick tradition.
Its Americanized as hell, and crazy unhealthy, but so damn good.
