Students Challenge 'Rowdy House' Stickers
WCVB Boston
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A decision could come soon in a lawsuit challenging the town of Narragansett's use of orange stickers to mark rowdy houses.
Narragansett police have given out hundreds of the stickers in the last few years to homes that have hosted unruly parties. The beach town is an off-campus hangout for University of Rhode Island students.
Several URI students are suing the town and asking a judge to strike down the ordinance. They say the stickers amount to public humiliation.
But a lawyer for the town says the stickers are a reasonable way to deal with illegal behavior, and that the stigma's not great enough to make the law unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge William Smith heard arguments on Nov. 17 and said he hoped to issue a written decision within 60 days.
These kids in the story have to be some kind of yuppie asshole kids who have lawyers on retainer or whose fathers are big shot lawyers. I may never have heard of a more scurrilous lawsuit. If the cops in O-Town of the LBK would have punished us with orange stickers instead of harrassment, MIPS and pouring out our beers, I think I would have become a contributor to the Police Athletic League. And these kids sue??? Public humiliation? Sounds more like a Red Badge of Courage to me than a Scarlet Letter.
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