Avi Adelman was on the streets of Lower Greenville Friday night and got this amusing video exchange with some young drunks (strong language):
I know not all our readers find as much comedy in these as I do, but this one is one of the better ones he's posted -- The drunken belligerence occasionally punctuated with a halfhearted attempt at reason; the "To Catch a Predator" reference; the seeming obliviousness to the cop nearby.
But Avi makes the real point about the sea change in our world of late in his post about this exchange:
"Get used to the camera, guys. It's absolutely legal to roll tape of drunken behavior on the public right of way (as opposed to in the bar where you are drinking). And there are more cameras out there on the streets than you know about.
Get ready for your close-up."
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Rawlins Gilliland Verified
So here's my question: Why, when the cop is right there, and these dudes are openly s__tfaced smashed, were they not arrested for public intoxication? Meanwhile, if the cop is right there, interacting with them, the options for their transpotation home was 1) foot (aka walking) 2) driving a car. If it was the latter, then everyone involved blew it because these guys were potential murderers-on-wheels if they cranked an ignition and put any auto in gear.
PS: LOVED the accusation that Adelman was a 'pedophile'. These erstwhile college characters should know that pedophile means an underage sex seeker. If these guys WERE underage, then the bar AND their soused moron patrons should have all been nursing hangovers in Lew Sterrett.
10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Clay213 Anonymous
Rawlins: They could have taken a taxi.
As for this video:
Does Mr Adelman have a model release for these subjects? If not he may very well be breaking the law. Also, recording audio without permission may be unlawful wiretapping and a violation of civil rights. I'm no lawyer, but I doubt Mr Adelman is either. He may want to research the producers of Girls Gone Wild before he makes claims of what is legal and what is not regarding behavior in public.
Also: I don't drink, I avoid Lower Greenville like the plague. In my opinion Mr Adelman consistently comes off seeming like an abusive and belligerent person looking for altercations in these videos you post.
He certainly isn't an ambassador, and if anything gives a bad name to his organization.
10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
viva_la_malcriada Anonymous
The profundity of the soused college boy never ceases to amaze, while the pit bull tactics of Avi Adelman never cease to amuse. I love this town.
10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
moiremusic Anonymous
Is it really legal to walk around lower Greenville and threaten to mace college kids? Honestly, he apparently pulled out mace or pepper spray when those kids posed no threat to him at all. Avi Adelman is somehow a bully and a coward at the same time.
10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
David Goodspeed Verified
clay- recording from a public place for editorial use is perfectly legal. Only when Avi sells his video or sells ads on his video does he need model releases. Also-when one of the parties involved knows that audio recording is taking place the recording is then perfectly legal. Sorry but thats the law and yes... this officer who apparently was assigned to this area should have taken further action, but, since it seems everyone on the street that night was "out of sorts" he would have needed a much larger vehicle.
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David Goodspeed Verified
BTW-it looks like Avi is getting credit for someone else's work here... on his post he credits the video to "BD" - not himself. I for one applaud Avi and think the image of the rottweilers on his blog space resemble him quite remarkably...
10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Mike Orren Staff
BD stands for "Barking Dogs," as in "BarkingDogs.com," Avi's site. As far as I know, Avi is the primary, if not sole author of that site.
Hence, BD=Avi...
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Rawlins Gilliland Verified
Actually, I agree with pretty much everyone here. But, to your point, Clay, about the taxi option...that slipped my mind. (But wanta bet...these guys drove Daddy's BMW SUV bought in Plano?) But my question about being snockered and weaving and profane and loud in public...I thought that was called 'public intoxication' and was arrestable or at least a ticketable offense. It has a name and a law behind it. So when and where and which cherry gets picked?
The cops or whoever (besides Adelman) oversees the footloose traffic on this nocturnal street of dreams should have called a cab FOR these guys. Somehow I'm doubting that they called their big brother over at the frat house (who sips iced lattes waiting for their call as their designated driver) to come get them.
Why do I feel that if I was seen reeling on the street with apres alcohol vertigo, I would be driven downtown by the men in blue who were ignoring these post pubescent poster kids for suburban birth control?
Avi? I have said it before and agree with every legit question (or barb) posed here regarding his motives, and his desire for the lemon-light. He bores me as does 'lower Greenville' (my once neighborhood of sorts which is actually not 'lower' since it's near Mockingbird and thus 'upper' but hey.)
10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Clay213 Anonymous
Having made the mistake of being on LG on a weekend(in fact I took a coworker over there this Saturday night to get food at Taco Cabana after she got off a late flight to Dallas) I witnessed the police getting in a confrontation with some very ornery women. There was screaming, dragging of flailing women into paddy wagons, and the general feeling of the start to a riot.
I can understand why cops would not arrest every single person who is 'publicly intoxicated'. I'm sure they have their hands full with people who have crossed the line, and nothing in this video shows them to have done anything particularly dangerous. Did they after? Maybe? We don't know that they did not end up arrested later!
10 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
danmichalski Anonymous
Fully entertaining. But a little wuss-like and unTexan not accept a handshake and/or an introduction from another man, no?
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Mike Orren Staff
Fallout from this incident:
http://www.barkingdogs.org/news/node/404
http://www.barkingdogs.org/news/node/403
10 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
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