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Mifflin Street party gets drunk, stabby
Congratulations, Wisconsin. You’ve out-drank yourselves again.
This year Madison’s Mifflin Street Block Party was apparently the craziest its ever been. Which is quite the accomplishment, considering Mifflin is like the drinking Olympics. Drunks far and wide, from Cincinnati to St. Cloud, practice all year round and then amass in Madison at the end of the school year, day-drinking until their balls fall off.
And this year more than ever! Suffice it to say, some people were not pleased.
A very disenchanted Mayor Paul Soglin said Saturday an “extraordinarily” high number of people were taken to detox after boozing it up at the block party. Twenty people, to be exact, compared with five last year.
“This is unacceptable,” he huffed after walking through the crowded block party Saturday afternoon. “The city has no business sponsoring an event where the primary activity is drinking.”
Insert upbeat banter: Oh man, look at Wisconsin, drunk again! Ha-ha, typical Wisconsin! Am I right?
But I wouldn’t be right.
Because once the sun began to go down, things at the block party started to get a little dark when later on there were two stabbings. Yeah. Mifflin apparently went just a little bit psycho in its drunken stupor Saturday evening because, you know, like I said, two people got stabbed.
