What’s orange and green and black and white and bloody all over? Cleveland’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade by about 3 p.m.
A mix of perfect weather, plentiful booze, and thousands of stumbling drunks resulted in one of the most festive St. Patrick’s Days in downtown history — but also one of the most chaotic.
Fights broke out along the parade route by mid-afternoon, with a melee ensuing on Public Square, according to police and eyewitnesses.
This article appears in Mar 16-22, 2011.
I saw someone peeing behind a car parked in back of the Scene office building. The guy was really embarrassed when we caught him.