Police Pretend To Clean Up The Beatrice Inn
Hamilton Nolan · 05/09/08 03:13PM![](http://images.gawker.com/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.png)
The Beatrice Inn should at least pretend a little more convincingly. The signs in the downtown nightspot warning against drugs, sex, smoking, and dancing are routinely ignored, particularly for Josh Hartnett-level celebrities. And according to a tipster, bouncers told all the patrons to extinguish their cigarettes shortly before a raid by the police last night. Two heavyset cops came in around 2 a.m. and made a beeline for the bathrooms—which are, by regulation, drug-free. Still, even the police presence didn't stop two girls from trying to conduct their nefarious business in there: