To be honest it has been one long party since the opening ceremonies. I’m never downtown later than 11 so I don’t get the experience those who’ve been drinking so much that by midnight they turn into pickled pumpkins with fists but the Vancouver Police Department get to. So they tried to slow up the flow of the variously flavoured magic potions by closing liquor stores downtown at 7pm.

Here’s their second press release to announce a second night of early closures.  Bottom line:

The 7:00 p.m. closing time on Saturday night aided police efforts to curb flagrant liquor consumption and public intoxication seen in the Granville Entertainment District Friday night.

News 1130 is a local source for this kind of information, for those who don’t want to keep up with the media releases on the VPD site. However, it seems as if their editorial staff is either a little busy or someone is having a poetry moment. Here’s how News 1130 reported the above line:

They say the 7 p.m. closure on Saturday helped curb ‘fragrant liquor consumption and public intoxication’ as seen in the Granville Entertainment District, Friday night.

Please attend. In the first block quote the word is “flagrant.” In the second it is “fragant.”

Curb fragrant liquor consumption.

See what I mean. Definitely something going on there with the editor. Maybe cutting back on the booze and having a hard time of it?

(Thanks ittel for spotting this delightful lexemic confusion.)