[pepsionice]

Notice how they extended booze sales hours until like 4AM, for this entire period around the Inaugural? For an event like...I would have have cut off all booze in the entire district for twenty-four hours.

[muawiyah]

The problem is open area is not available for 5 million people, and even DC doesn't have enough beer joints to handle that size of crowd. People are going to be trapped inside as throngs surge outside.

How long those places are open is irrelevant in the face of the problem.