According to reports earlier this week, Hurricanes star Eric Staal and his brother, Jordan Staal of the Penguins, were arrested for misdemeanor disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process at Eric Staal's bachelor party at a Minnesota resort. Apparently they were arrested after "screaming, yelling and playing loud music."
GASP! A loud bachelor party?! Heaven forbid. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us there were female strippers there too. Strippers at a bachelor party?! How awful!
It is a BACHELOR PARTY. The whole point is to get everyone as drunk as possible and get people to do crazy stuff that everyone will remember for years to come. What should they have done? Organized a calm and quiet get-together with little mini sandwiches and non-alcoholic punch? That would be called a tea party...not a bachelor party. Seriously, if a bunch of young, 20-somethings (Eric is 22 and Jordan is 18) got together and it wasn't loud and crazy, it would be a bad party. The Best Man would be blacklisted from hosting a Bachelor Party ever again. Just because they're hockey players means they can't participate in a wedding tradition that has been around for hundreds of years (according to Wikipedia, the history of bachelor party is thought to have originated with a bachelor dinner that was traditional in ancient Sparta (5th century) where soldiers would toast each other on the eve of a friend€™s wedding), does it? If they did anything wrong, it was that they chose a bad location for the party. C'mon guys, don't host a bachelor party in a quiet, stodgy, uptight resort that is going to complain about noise. That would be like hosting a high school grad at a senior's home and hoping none of the old fogeys would complain. Save the resort for the tea party.
