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Well, yesterday was Penn State's seventh home home. This season has not exactly been perfect for tailgating. The noon games have been ok, fair weather but not a lot of time to tailgate. The Iowa game- Rain. The Minnesota game- Snow, canceled tailgating, altered parking, but we dealt with it. So, yesterday was Ohio State 3:30pm start, and Great Weather!!! Time for some good tailgating. We got here early and waited in line for the gates to open. We made our way to our favorite spot. We set everything up, Canopy, tables, chairs, food, generator, music.... the same we do every week. Folks on either side have their tailgate set up to even include satellite tv powered by a generator. Everyone is enjoying a great day of fun, friends, good weather, great game in store for us all. Perfect day right? Then the Penn State campus police arrived and told everyone to turn off the generators. What? Why? Why today? everyone complied. The generators were turned off, along with the music, TV's and whatever else. When asked, why today. The answer given was "that's the rules" That was followed up with if you turn them back on you will be arrested for trespassing. What? trespassing? I believe it is time for a revision of the tailgating policies. I can idle my vehicle all day but can't run a super quiet Honda generator. Honda by the way is a Penn State Athletics sponsor. Does anyone have any information on the reason for this policy on no generators? Am I missing something? How many other people experienced this yesterday? I purchased a super quiet Honda generator because

 

they are made for an environment like tailgating. No noise, no problem. No one that had a generator near me bothered me. They were all being used very responsibly. No harmful exhaust fumes. No problems at all. One of the other given reasons was there are statistics on the harms of generator use. Really I was not aware of them. Do tell. I am looking for a positive way to approach the university about changing their policy on generators. Any ideas?

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aren’t the games on the BTN (and half of the commercials) sponsored by Honda generators? I seem to recall something about the red zone being especially sponsored by the generators, but I forget what gimmicky name they gave them.

As with anything, especially anything fuel related, there are risks, but seriously, banning generators? I’m curious to know why as well.

by The JuggerNitt on Nov 8, 2009 12:53 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

You have never

been able to have generators in the grass fields (you can in the paved lots though). Even the overnight RV lot you have to have a generator in your RV, not one of the seperate ones. Its been that way since 1998 when I started and I think JuggerNitt is right – while your generator may be a nice new honda one, some are loud, stink, and potentially old and dangerous.

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by NittanyAlum02 on Nov 8, 2009 1:47 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Anyone see the Swat Team that was State Liquor Enforcement?

by cmdpsu15 on Nov 8, 2009 3:21 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I know

They were everywhere and in massive groups. They must think there’s mass drinking going on in those tailgating lots or something.

by dawsonPSU10 on Nov 9, 2009 11:06 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

It is true...it is technically against the rules

but they didn’t really enforce it until recently, some idiot tried to fill up his generator while it was still on, catching the generator on fire.

they had come around and told us to turn our generators off on Thursday, but they didn’t come back the rest of the weekend and we had them running like crazy.

there were a whole bunch of things i saw this weekend that have been banned but suddenly appeared this weekend. oh well c’est la vie at PSU

"They say in Happy Valley that if God wasn’t a Penn State fan, why is the sky blue and white?" Fortt said. "Who am I to argue with God?"

by amandakt on Nov 8, 2009 10:14 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

That is the first time I have ever seen Liquor Control. Like 20-30 of them in one group

Regarding the tailgate situation, it was great as usual, but I’d like to say a say a word about the dickheads who park in our section of the purple lot. First of all, they drive an oversized van that is too big for the regular space. Why they are allowed to part there I have no idea since their vehicle is more of an RV. They could not get up the little hill because of mud and almost hit me twice when they slid backwards. So, I drove up and around them to get out of the way. Who wants to be behind a giant van slidding in mud? This angered them, they wanted me to back up so they could get out onto the road before I did. Their solution? Send two of their little group to stand in front of my car so I can’t move. Nice guys, picking on two girls. They were laughing and drinking and seemed more than ready to run me right over. Now I now we were all in a hurry to get out of there after that game but come on. Luckily another driver caught on to what was happening and let us out. I hope thew giant van guys got a flat tire. Or a DUI before they hurt anyone.

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by letsgopsu on Nov 9, 2009 11:51 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Very surprising behavior for Purple.

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by pslion on Nov 9, 2009 4:50 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

PSU policies are written by idiots

PSU makes policies where there is no need. They have laws they can enforce and they don’t. They just make up new rules that they enforce haphazardly. The result is that the people who follow the rules are penalized. The ones who don’t care just break the rules and end up with a slap on the wrist. The liquor control squad is an absolute joke. There is about 20 agents walking around and they arrested something like 39 people. If they really wanted to enforce it they could. They obviously do not care to enforce anything. This year they walked right buy some drunk skunk who could not even walk. I guess they did not want to deal with the hassle of a public intoxication arrest. I have seen them walk by so many things and look the other way it is ridiculous. We had a group next to us earlier this year who did not put away all their tailgate stuff. We left for the game thinking boy they are really asking for it. Shame on them for trusting people. Some kids from a few tailgates up came over around halftime fired up their grill cooked their food, drank their beer, threw their salads and other dishes all over the place, broke their table and tent. The cops show up. You think there is some justice going to happen. Think again. They gave these thieves a warning but did not even ID them. No record. These bums stole off with the cooler and remaining beer and turned the grill up on high and left. The folks came back to their cars and were in utter disbelief at their broken belongings and melting grill.

Peter

by psuboy on Nov 11, 2009 8:51 AM EST reply actions   0 recs


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