Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

Sometime last week I walked into Doc Watson’s pub on 11th street because all of my normal bars were way too crowded. Something seemed a little off so I turned around and left. By “off” I mean that it felt a bit like being in a shopping center parking lot on a Friday night when the stores have closed and the kids from a local high school have arrived en mass to drink 40’s and huff glue. Now I know why:

Maybe the doorman fell asleep.

The owner of Doc Watson’s Pub (216 S. 11th) may want to try that line as an excuse for why, say police, there were more than 100 minors inside the bar Saturday morning.

Bar owner Daniel Flynn, 36, was arrested after, according to a police report, locking a large group of minors in his one-bedroom apartment on the fourth floor of the building to hide them from police. Police had initially responded to a call about loud music when they saw underage folks at a bar. They made eight underage drinking arrests and one for posession of narcotics.

Then, say police, Flynn announced that all underage persons were to proceed to the third floor, and later announced they should head to the fourth floor.

Philadelphia police called in the Pennsylvania State Police Liquor Enforcement Control Bureau and the Department of Licenses and Inspections. Liquor Control officers made and additional 88 arrests for underage drinking.

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