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• Don't insult one another or the subjects of BDN stories. You may be ticked off at what someone did or said, but you can explain that without resorting to name-calling or obscenity. Remember that young people are on this site too.
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That's about it: Stick to writing about the stories; be civil; be kind; enlighten your neighbors. And we'll keep moderating posts to try to ensure everyone meets those standards.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BE5K4BY6CK2TFMMTWIM5B22ZOE David

  Why didn’t the writer mention which bars he was frequenting? Isn’t that a pretty basic rule of journalism? Who, what, when, WHERE, why and how?   

• Anonymous

  Those journalistic rules went out of style years ago.  I don’t think they teach the 5 w’s of journalism any more.

• Anonymous

  Probably true.  It’s all “new media” these days.   But I guess if actual print journalism is going away, and most everything is reduced to a brief soundbite or short paragraph suitable for the modern 20 second attention span it only stands to reason.   Sad IMHO.

• Anonymous

  When may i ask is the arrest of a drunk man news?? And he actually got his own headline! Must be a real slow news day.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Blanchard/1723676121 Ron Blanchard

  Bangor Man; is that born in Bangor ? or Bused in and sponging off the Tax payers….?

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Blanchard/1723676121 Ron Blanchard

  Bangor Man; is that born in Bangor ? or Bused in and sponging off the Tax payers….?

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Blanchard/1723676121 Ron Blanchard

  Bangor Man; is that born in Bangor ? or Bused in and sponging off the Tax payers….?

• Anonymous

  Sadly true. You have only to look no farther than the bottom of this page to the inane “tweets” the BDN sees fit to list and clumsily label as “Reactions.” Why is the space even given up to this tripe?

• Anonymous

  Sadly true. You have only to look no farther than the bottom of this page to the inane “tweets” the BDN sees fit to list and clumsily label as “Reactions.” Why is the space even given up to this tripe?

• Anonymous

  Details?  Too much to ask for in the Age of Tweet.

• Anonymous

  Was he a transient ?

• Anonymous

  I agree, David, but I imagine the bars in question don’t want the bad publicity!!!

• Anonymous

  Amen, snookman!!!

• Anonymous

  Ahhh, journalistic experts.  Of course, you realize, that the online version of the paper is quite abbreviated from the print version.  But people are too cheap (I’m guilty) to simply buy a paper.  But hey, the posters here have to have someone to whine about.

• Anonymous

  Ahhh, journalistic experts.  Of course, you realize, that the online version of the paper is quite abbreviated from the print version.  But people are too cheap (I’m guilty) to simply buy a paper.  But hey, the posters here have to have someone to whine about.

• Anonymous

  Ahhh, journalistic experts.  Of course, you realize, that the online version of the paper is quite abbreviated from the print version.  But people are too cheap (I’m guilty) to simply buy a paper.  But hey, the posters here have to have someone to whine about.

• Anonymous

  Ahhh, journalistic experts.  Of course, you realize, that the online version of the paper is quite abbreviated from the print version.  But people are too cheap (I’m guilty) to simply buy a paper.  But hey, the posters here have to have someone to whine about.

• Anonymous

  Good points.
  I used to really like buying the printed edition, but then the price got too high to pay for it on a regular basis.

• Anonymous

  Eat, drink and be scary! 

• Anonymous

  Gotta love it!

• Anonymous

  Sounds to me like he’s an obnoxious drunk; in transient to jail.

• Anonymous

  Still get the print edition, but read more of it on here than anywhere else … probably time to analyze that expenditure!

• http://twitter.com/joncob Jon Coburn

  drunk? come on