THE LEDGER-STAR
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, September 6, 1994 TAG: 9409060209
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: KITTY HAWK, N.C. LENGTH: Short : 39 lines
It's big and bulky and allows celebrants on the Outer Banks to drink to excess without getting in trouble with the law.
Tourists and townspeople at Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head and Manteo are getting to know the Pub Crawl, a bus service that operates a late-night route that stops at bars, restaurants and motels.
``Don't get busted, get bused,'' says the bus's souvenir T-shirt.
Beach Bus Inc. of Kitty Hawk imported eight Routemaster double-decker buses from England to run the route.
Passengers and law officers say the Pub Crawl has surely prevented some drunken-driving arrests and possibly some wrecks, the News & Observer of Raleigh Reported.
Now and then, a Pub Crawl conductor has helped a wobbly customer to his door. At least twice, a conductor has persuaded a drunken bar patron to leave his car and ride home on the bus.
For $5, riders get an all-night pass - a blue-green wristband. Buses stop every 25 to 45 minutes. Although Labor Day ends the summer season, the Pub Crawl will continue on Saturday nights. ILLUSTRATION: AP photo
Diane and David Hoare stand in front of one of the double-decker Pub
Crawl buses they use to carry barrier-island beachcombers from bar
to bar.
by CNB