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Well… I told you so. 😂
Remember last semester when I went absolutely feral over these basement frat parties downtown?

I posted about them over and over. I talked about 300+ people being packed into basements. Fire code. Occupancy. Zoning. Exits. Unlicensed party spaces. I contacted the city. I pissed off landlords. I pissed off frat guys. I pissed off half of Reddit.

And every single time the response was basically:
“the city doesn’t care”
“they’ve been doing it for years”
“nothing is ever going to happen”
“why do you care?”
“they’re never going to shut them down”

Welllllllllllll.

Pipe Dream just reported that the City of Binghamton has officially started cracking down on student basement parties downtown.
The FIRE MARSHAL is now serving properties with notices ordering unauthorized basement parties, assemblies and entertainment activities to CEASE IMMEDIATELY.

And my favorite part?
The mayor specifically talked about one location where MORE THAN 300 PEOPLE were identified.
300.

Where have we heard that number before? 😂

I’m not delusional enough to sit here and say one Reddit page single-handedly caused the City of Binghamton to change enforcement policy. Obviously there were complaints from residents, businesses, BU and others too.

But am I going to pretend that months of publicly documenting this shit, filing complaints, asking questions and refusing to shut up had absolutely nothing to do with putting more attention on it?

Absolutely not.

The entire argument I made last semester was that the city did NOT have to wait until somebody died in an overcrowded basement to enforce fire code and occupancy rules.

People told me I was wasting my time.

Apparently I wasn’t.

You guys can hate Binghamton Uncensored all you want.
But sometimes being the annoying asshole who refuses to drop something actually works. 😂

Welcome back everyone.
I missed this place.