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Halifax police say no problems during attempt at pub crawl record

Canadian Press Article online since March 28th 2008, 23:00
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HALIFAX - Halifax police arrested several people for public intoxication but said the city's contribution to a four-city pub crawl billed as a world-record attempt was no different than a typical Saturday night.
Events were held in Halifax, St. John's, N.L., Ottawa and London, Ont., on Saturday as a Halifax-based group attempted to set a record for the world's largest pub crawl.
It's not clear whether the event beat the current record - 2,278 participants at a London event in 2006 - and organizers couldn't be reached. The group behind the event expected 4,800 people to attend.
Each participant - all wearing identical T-shirts as they hopped from one bar to another - had to visit 10 bars and order at least one drink at every spot for their attendance to count toward the record attempt.
Police departments in Ottawa, St. John's, N.L., and London, Ont., were unavailable for comment.
In Halifax, Sgt. Garry Smith said officers kept a close eye on the 10 venues that were part of the pub crawl, but he said there was nothing out of the ordinary.
"Run of the mill, that's the category I would put it in," Smith said in an interview Sunday.
"I think there was some monitoring going on to make sure people were complying. ... You're always mindful of the numbers of people of one location mixed with alcohol sometimes it may cause incidents to occur."
The event - advertised as "Canada's biggest party" - prompted accusations that it was encouraging dangerous binge drinking.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving called it a "recipe for disaster" and accused it of encouraging heavy drinking among a young, university-aged crowd.
But organizer Jonathan DeYoung, president of High Impact Promotions of Halifax, said in the lead-up to the pub crawl that drinking wasn't the focus of the event, but rather the Guinness World Record attempt.
A similar event was held last year in Halifax, however it failed to set a record because of what DeYoung has described as registration problems.
Last year's event sent 19 groups of people to 26 bars, and, like this year, police said there were few problems.
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