September 7, 200421 yr Well i've got tickets to the game tonight and there is a curfew in Boca Raton (where I live) and you can't be out on the roads after 10pm. The game will probably end at 9:45 and I won't get home until 11:30 or so, mabye even later because the PPS parking lot is a nightmare.... after the curfew. I just called the Boca PD and they told me that driving home from a baseball game is not an excuse to be out on the roads and if i'm out on the roads after 10pm they'll ARREST ME... WTF?!?!? This is totally absurd. I just called the Marlins season ticket office to see if I could exchange my tickets for another game later in the season but it's too short of notice for them to do it. So I guess i'll just go to the game and have to leave early around 8:50 to make sure I won't get ARRESTED . This sucks.
September 7, 200421 yr WTF? Has there been massive damage in Boca Raton with thousands still in shelters for them to put such a strict curfew on ?
September 7, 200421 yr You pay their salaries and I doubt they'd arrest you for violating curfew, just go to and enjoy the game.
September 7, 200421 yr Well I went through West Boca yesterday.... the majority of the traffic lights are still out.
September 8, 200421 yr Author Well I went to the game and i'm just glad it was a 7:05 start rather than 7:30 like on Fridays. I left in the 8th and made it home almost exactly at 10. There isn't major damage in Boca, just power outages and by now most of the town has already gotten power back.
September 8, 200421 yr I highly doubt they will arrest you for being out on the roads if you were comin back from a marlins game.. Unless they thought you were suspicious and did not belong in the area but they set the curfew to scare people.. I say f*k the curfew
September 8, 200421 yr wow thats f***ing insane. damn dude. its to late now but tell them you pay taxes and refuse to take this bulls***. of course, dont bring up your taxes if the IRS has reason to talk to you.
September 8, 200421 yr I drove down to Miami last night after work. Went to the game, took out some money from the bank, gassed up my car, bought ice, etc. Came back to West Palm at around 11:00 PM without any problems. There were quite a few people driving around too, but I did not see any police units. If indeed there was a curfew, then I have to say they did a weak job enforcing it.
September 10, 200421 yr This is ridiculous. Marcos Gonzalez started the evening Tuesday in his regular seat behind home plate at Pro Player Stadium but ended it standing for 11 hours in a hot, crowded jail cell, where he was detained for breaking Palm Beach County's curfew. Gonzalez, a 35-year-old attorney from Hypoluxo Island and Marlins season-ticket holder, watched his team beat the Mets with his brother-in-law and his two kids. When the game ended after 9 p.m., he headed toward Wellington to join his wife and son at his sister's house. The family is staying there until electricity is restored to their house. After exiting Interstate 95, he was stopped three times by law enforcement officers enforcing the 10 p.m. curfew. Two of them told him to have a good night and allowed him to pass after he explained that he had been at the game and showed his ticket stubs, Gonzalez said. POPULAR PAGES But around 10:50 p.m. at Forest Hill Boulevard and U.S. 441, a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy wasn't so forgiving. "I told him the exact same thing I told the other officers, and he goes, 'That's not an emergency. Get out of the car,' " Gonzalez said. He was put in plastic handcuffs and loaded into a van with a dozen other people. He was taken to the detention center on Gun Club Road in West Palm Beach, where he stayed in a cell with about 60 other people until 9:40 a.m. There was no room to sit. One man vomited "all over the place" while a few others were heroin addicts with tracks in their arms, Gonzalez said. "It was not a pretty place," he said. He hadn't been able to contact his wife all night because of phone problems. All she knew was that her husband didn't make it home from the game. "She had been calling hospitals," Gonzalez said. He was given a notice to appear in court. Sheriff's spokeswoman Diane Carhart cited the sheriff's zero-tolerance policy against curfew breakers Wednesday and said the detention "was the judgment call of the deputy. I don't second-guess the deputies." She suggested that those who attend games keep their ticket stubs, as Gonzalez did, or try to adjust their plans. "This curfew isn't going to be forever," she said. "It's just temporary, as long as it's needed to keep us safe."
September 10, 200421 yr That was totally unnecessary. This so-called curfew is a complete (and unfunny) joke. Royal Palm Beach has no curfew, but you have to go through West Palm Beach (which HAS a curfew) to get there. And Jupiter, which got hit the hardest, lifted the curfew days ago. Absolute BS.
September 10, 200421 yr This is ridiculous. Marcos Gonzalez started the evening Tuesday in his regular seat behind home plate at Pro Player Stadium but ended it standing for 11 hours in a hot, crowded jail cell, where he was detained for breaking Palm Beach County's curfew. Gonzalez, a 35-year-old attorney from Hypoluxo Island and Marlins season-ticket holder, watched his team beat the Mets with his brother-in-law and his two kids. When the game ended after 9 p.m., he headed toward Wellington to join his wife and son at his sister's house. The family is staying there until electricity is restored to their house. After exiting Interstate 95, he was stopped three times by law enforcement officers enforcing the 10 p.m. curfew. Two of them told him to have a good night and allowed him to pass after he explained that he had been at the game and showed his ticket stubs, Gonzalez said. POPULAR PAGES But around 10:50 p.m. at Forest Hill Boulevard and U.S. 441, a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy wasn't so forgiving. "I told him the exact same thing I told the other officers, and he goes, 'That's not an emergency. Get out of the car,' " Gonzalez said. He was put in plastic handcuffs and loaded into a van with a dozen other people. He was taken to the detention center on Gun Club Road in West Palm Beach, where he stayed in a cell with about 60 other people until 9:40 a.m. There was no room to sit. One man vomited "all over the place" while a few others were heroin addicts with tracks in their arms, Gonzalez said. "It was not a pretty place," he said. He hadn't been able to contact his wife all night because of phone problems. All she knew was that her husband didn't make it home from the game. "She had been calling hospitals," Gonzalez said. He was given a notice to appear in court. Sheriff's spokeswoman Diane Carhart cited the sheriff's zero-tolerance policy against curfew breakers Wednesday and said the detention "was the judgment call of the deputy. I don't second-guess the deputies." She suggested that those who attend games keep their ticket stubs, as Gonzalez did, or try to adjust their plans. "This curfew isn't going to be forever," she said. "It's just temporary, as long as it's needed to keep us safe." 550164[/snapback] Let them arrest you and fight it in court. Split the proceeds amongst the members of the board.
September 10, 200421 yr That was totally unnecessary. This so-called curfew is a complete (and unfunny) joke. Royal Palm Beach has no curfew, but you have to go through West Palm Beach (which HAS a curfew) to get there. And Jupiter, which got hit the hardest, lifted the curfew days ago. Absolute BS. 550181[/snapback] I find the arrest ridiculous, but the curfew makes sense. If there's no power, there's no security system...and the police are already spread ridiculously thin. I think the first two police officers who let him go after an explanation set an example, but the sheriff clearly wasn't acting rationally. As a resident where power has just been restored, I know that I felt safe with the curfew.
September 10, 200421 yr That sheriff should lose his job in an ideal world...he is the reason why people hate the police, even though most officers are nice people. There is always the few a**holes out there "enforcing the law".
September 10, 200421 yr I'm driving from the acreage to the orange bowl tonight and back. Wish me luck and go canes!
September 10, 200421 yr Author Wow that is completely absurd. 35 year old man with 2 little kids driving home from a baseball game gets arrested by some power abusing pig and spends the night in jail, absolutely sickening. I totally agree, it's cops like that which gives cops in general a bad name. The curfew is no longer necessary and if anything having it be at 10PM is ridiculous, most other places with curfews have them at 12AM.
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