I don't think most business encourage it. Money or not. Restaurants get trashed and customers harassed. Some hire security which offsets profits.
A lot of restaurants close for the Memorial Day weekend to avoid this. People of color flock to Miami beach for Memorial Day.
I hope that I never have to step foot into Miami Dade County again.

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Edmond, true. The year before a bunch of pontoons and jet skis were damaged and or just abandoned on beaches in the bay and bayous. Also a lot of stolen credit cards used etc..

Long time ago. I think the late 80's I had to go to a business convention in New Orleans... was not even close to Mardi Gras but still myself and a few folks went down to Bourbon Street that weekend .... I will never understand the need to get stupid drunk especially in public and act out. Don't get me wrong, I drink and have been known on occasion by my own standards to over do it... but only at home... I do enough stupid things by accident.... have no need to add to them out in public.

We had Black Spring break one year. Total zoo, businesses trashed etc. The next year was not much fun for the revelers. On the beach highway there were squad cars and tow trucks. If the car stopped it was towed and the occupants told to leave or be arrested. More cops than the 1960s. Came from distant states to patrol. They then changed the name to Black Spring Break Atlanta, and moved it there.

I have never gone on "spring break" as far as heading to a location to raise hell. This all sounds like a drunken gang of cow hands treeing a town.

From what I have seen most are not College students.

I live an hour North of South Beach. We don't have ANY of those problems in Fort Lauderdale. Yeah drunk kids partying but no shootings etc.

Miami Beach OTOH attracts college kids from NY, NJ, Chicago, Detroit and other like cities. Need I say more.

We were just in Miami Beach week before last and drove south beach on ocean drive just to see Miami Vice film locations. In that short time we (wife, kids, myself) saw open drug deals on the streets, hookers walking their beats, and people openly screwing. We stayed in the Fontainebleau further up so we were fairly sheltered there but we won’t be going back to Miami. Too much of a human infestation problem. Prices are sky high too.

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Originally posted by 10X-Shooter:
We were just in Miami Beach week before last and drove south beach on ocean drive just to see Miami Vice film locations. In that short time we (wife, kids, myself) saw open drug deals on the streets, hookers walking their beats, and people openly screwing. We stayed in the Fontainebleau further up so we were fairly sheltered there but we won’t be going back to Miami. Too much of a human infestation problem. Prices are sky high too.

Miami Beach and Miami are two very different things.

Next time, go visit the mainland - Brickell, Coral Gables, Key Biscayne are some of the nicest places to go with a family, with excellent dining and extremely safe.

Miami Beach is like visiting a strip club in the red light district of London and thinking you’ve seen the city.

You can also visit Liberty City, Overtown, Miami Gardens, and Hialeah!

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Originally posted by 10X-Shooter:
We were just in Miami Beach week before last and drove south beach on ocean drive just to see Miami Vice film locations. In that short time we (wife, kids, myself) saw open drug deals on the streets, hookers walking their beats, and people openly screwing. We stayed in the Fontainebleau further up so we were fairly sheltered there but we won’t be going back to Miami. Too much of a human infestation problem. Prices are sky high too.

Miami Beach and Miami are two very different things.

Next time, go visit the mainland - Brickell, Coral Gables, Key Biscayne are some of the nicest places to go with a family, with excellent dining and extremely safe.

Miami Beach is like visiting a strip club in the red light district of London and thinking you’ve seen the city.

I think 10x saw enough at MB that he doesn’t need to go to Overtown/Hialeah

The real issue here is the cascading one up phenomenon.

All of these people going down there have heard the stories of last year or the year before. They are determined to have a better time and prove they can party harder and better.

This is fine for a while, but as with all things eventually it reaches the point where you really shouldn't drink any more, party any harder, or take that next step as you or someone is going to get hurt.

2001 - I did a 3 beer bong
2002 - I did a 4 beer bong
2003 - I did a 6 beer bong
2004 - I did a 8 beer bong
2005 - I did a 10 beer bong
2006 - Student dies doing a 12 beer bong due to alcohol poisoning, Authorities call for a ban on drinking mass quantities through bongs, tubes, etc.

This is a result of people not knowing where the line is anymore... having to outdo last year, and just plain not caring or thinking they have the 'right' to do whatever they want.

And Then Kamala Said: "This was in Florida, which is a state that borders some other states, and spring break is a break commonly held in the spring, when college students celebrate the beginning of spring, due to the spring weather, because spring tends to be warmer than winter."

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ironmike57:
You can also visit Liberty City, Overtown, Miami Gardens, and Hialeah!


When I was in college, I met this sexy girl in college and she told me she lived in Hialeah Gardens. I replied "Hialeah has gardens". Let's just say she got pretty mad over that comment.

My son asked if he could go to Myrtle Beach for spring break with his friends. I thought abut it for a nano second and said "no". The nano second was for me to contemplate saying "hell no", or just regular "no".

You can go on a solo vacation to the beach once you've gained your education, earned a job, then accrued the vacation time and banked the money to take that vacation.

I grew up near Panama City Beach. I went to my first spring break when I was 16. It forever changed my opinion of women in general and gave me insight into what I didn't want in a wife. We are celebrating our 20th anniversary next month. Sometimes you have to see it to gain clarity.

I have never been but I don't quite understand the appeal of Miami Beach.

But I'm also not 20 years old and into partying and drinking. Other than that, is there anything else to do beside get drunk, get high, and catch STDs?

Miami Beach is a bit of an odd duck. Every billionaire has a home here, and most mega millionaires.

In large part, it’s quite a sleepy little beach town. Some of the only decent restaurants in Miami are small places in it, and everyone ends up knowing one another.

NO ONE wants the recent crowd. NO ONE ever wants that crowd - they’re all destined for the penitentiary.

The college kid crowd really wasn’t too bad when it was actually kids going to college/before they all started taking all kinds of drugs all the time.

The early lock down probably helped prevent what happened last year - though I think they should jump right to using automatic pepper ball guns on the crowd.

There is a vagrant problem/drug addict problem.

I don’t know why Miami Beach has food kitchens, etc I’d like to see them shut down as attractive nuisances.

No one with a place in Miami Beach, anymore, has a hard time buying groceries.

Yep. Get shot.

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I have never been but I don't quite understand the appeal of Miami Beach.

But I'm also not 20 years old and into partying and drinking. Other than that, is there anything else to do beside get drunk, get high, and catch STDs?

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is there anything else to do beside get drunk, get high, and catch STDs?

What more could anyone want?