What the 17 is wrong with SOME Starkville businesses?

KurtRambis4

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I'm pretty

certain 99.9% of people at bars have no idea if and when the fire codes being broke due to overcapacity.
 
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I don't want the original purpose of my post to get lost. I didn't post in effort to condemn Cowbells. I posted so that every business in Starkville gets the freaking message.

Starkville should be a haven for former athletes and current ones. These kids get paid nothing for what they do at our university, yet every business in town benefits from them. Starkville should be a place that "appreciates" its athletes. Not a place that acts like they never did anything that benefited the city.

Trust me, this is something that we we've complained about since the '90s. Starkville doesn't appreciate its students much less former athletes. Thank goodness downtown has changed, but more has to be done.
 

GhostOfJackie

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who the **** goes to cowbells anyway? I thought sixpack posters were educated and care about MSU?
 
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Let me play devil's advocate... Say you are the owner of a bar in Starkville and your establishment was packed and at maximum capacity due to fire codes. A line of 60 people trying to get in see Boobie walking in ahead of everyone.

Meanwhile, some unrelated dubmass throws a cig on the floor and the whole place catches on fire and people are seriously hurt or possibly worse... 60 people saw Boobie walk in putting the restaurant at violation of fire codes. And it doesnt really matter if they just bumped him to the front of the line, every witness may say something different, or didnt notice they let one-in and one-out. That guy would be paying off lawsuits for as long as his family name exists.

Just playing devil's advocate

Are you also playing moron lawyer? What other roles do you play?
 

Wizard.sixpack

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^^ This will be the downfall of their business. They are downright stupid. Aint no telling what this guy's tab would have been. Instead you got punk lil cheap college kids in their that were probably smashed before they even got there and would not spend a dime.
 

futaba.79

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not to defend Cowbells but they are under a microsocpe.............

due to several incidents, one in particular from a few months back involving bouncers. I doubt Dixon was alone and it may have been impossible to let him and his friends in without causing crowd control problems among those left outside. The new sheriff would love to see Cowbells closed. I don't know that it could survive a brawl in the parking lot involving bouncers. (I write all this with absolutely no knowledge of the environment outside Cowbells on the night in question.)

On the other hand, Cowbells responding to tweets is ridiculous.
 

4suredog

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So a bar that has so many people inside, it can't let anymore in, has a line of people still waiting knowing they may not make it in, should let a former player move to the front of the line over regular patrons who actually live in that town to help its business profile???

One side note, as I mentioned in the other thread, Dixon doesn't think he should have to pay his bar tabs and he did have his posse in tow, just an fyi...
 

AlanDawg

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Urbanspoon no longer accepting ratings for cowbells due to unusual activity. Looks like our job is done aha
 

dawgs.sixpack

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Let me preface this by saying, I'm playing devil's advocate. I don't think it's business savvy to piss off someone with 40000+ twitter followers, much less one as beloved as Boobie in a small college town. But if there were 60 people in line, some of which had to be regulars, are you gonna piss that many people off for someone that you know is only going to visit your establishment twice a year tops. Again, I'm not defending the decision just trying to understand what could possibly influence them to make such a bad decision.


doesn't hurt the lines at clubs in vegas, LA, NYC, and miami when celebs/athletes get to cut the line and go straight in. if anything it makes the avg person who is standing in line for those kinda places want to go in more.

now i'm not saying AD is nationally known, but for starkville, he's a big fish. hell, there's football players from other programs that never touched a NFL field and could go back to their alma mater right now and have a red carpet rolled out for them at restuarants and bars.