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San Jose PD blocking off side walks on 2nd street during Mardi Gras

Downtown San Jose’s Mardi Gras party was just as dead as last year.  This time though, there were a record low number of arrests, 18 to be exact.

I’m even amazed they got that many arrests in the first place.  On my street corner last night, a Dodge Viper (verrry sexy) did a small burnout RIGHT IN FRONT OF A COP!  The cop didn’t do a single thing but watched it happen. Person on sidewalk signals to “burn em up” (the tires) and the driver looks back at the cop, hits the gas, drives off, and no pursuit.  I’d been waiting for something exciting to happen and finally thought I had my chance to catch something good.  But no.

Oh well, glad there weren’t any damages in San Jose this year.  Unlike a few years back when groups of idiots ran around breaking windows and vandalizing San Jose.

All in all it was a laid back evening.

Santa Clara street during Mardi Gras - busy but not too bad.

It’s true, San Jose’s Downtown Mardi Gras was absolutely boring.  Sure it was a Tuesday night but come on!

Not only did the police OVER populate and ruin any chance of a good time, most of the stores closed early, and there really wasn’t anything exciting going on.

I spent about an hour scoping the scene with some friends trying to find the fun stuff to do.  Unfortunately for us, we aren’t really the “thug money” types that head into Tunes and get plaster faced while getting man-squished by “Man Jose’s” residents and visitors.

To add to the boringness, SJ Bar and Grill, Gordon Biersch, and other regular fun spots were either closed or just not exciting.  In the whole night I could probably count only 30 beaded necklaces.  San Jose definitely doesn’t hold a torch to… I won’t even say New Orleans because it’s obvious we don’t come close.  Modesto probably had a better time!

I do have to say though, I am excited at the small fact that the place didn’t get torn up.  Sure some police horse poo on the ground, dumbass flyers of stuff we could care less about littered on the ground, but that’s a given on just about any night.

All that seemed to walk the streets tonight was the police, the gangster wanabes, and the drunk girls with short skirts that couldn’t entice a goat.

That’s my opinion.  What’s your’s?  And here’s some photos of downtown as we saw it: