The Yorktown Pub on a quiet night

Winnie and I went over for dinner to the Yorktown Pub. Please note the massive crowd. We were the only people in there when we arrived just after 6. I told the waitress we were there to offer moral support.

Why? Please note the empty back bar. As a result of various, umm, mistakes, they got their liquor license suspended for 30 days.

Hopefully, this little You Tube video played no part in the suspension, though it was taken during one of the offensive incidents.

By the time we left, a few more people had arrived. Amusingly, they were trying to close early (7:30) on purpose tonight, as carpenters were coming to replace the back bar. Well, at least they get their license back on Thursday.

The Yorktown Pub's in Trouble

I've written several entries in which I mentioned the Yorktown Pub, most recently on 19 October. Now it seems that they are in some trouble.

A popular watering hole is under state scrutiny following several reports of over-serving alcohol to patrons, one of whom has been tied to the death of a Hampton man in a September boat crash.

Agents with the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control are investigating whether the Yorktown Pub has violated state liquor laws in several cases of dangerously excessive drinking over the past three months.

The investigation stems from the boat crash that killed 27-year-old Casey Marks of Hampton, said ABC spokeswoman Beth Straeten. Marks and two Poquoson men had been drinking at the pub before they boarded a Boston whaler on Sept. 12 and crashed full-speed into a pier along the Yorktown waterfront...

An ABC investigator is also looking into two cases from October in which pub patrons were so drunk that they had to be hospitalized. On Oct. 20, a York County sheriff's deputy came across a group of sailors crowded around an unconscious man near the Yorktown Pub. Witnesses said the man had been drinking at the pub and was heavily inebriated, according to a search warrant for the man's medical records and toxicology tests.

I'm a bit surprised at this. Most of their patrons tend to be middle-class middle-age old farts, like me. Hardly the type you'd think would get that plastered in public. Note the reference to the 20th? I'm guessing the "group of sialors" are the same we were in the pub with that night.