Teen dies after drug overdose at Los Angeles Rave, Local News ‘all over that shit’ with coverage

Published on Wednesday 6/30/2010 @ 8:34 AM by the ALT REPORT Robot
         
Link: http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/local/electric-daisy-festival-injuries-20100628
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The was a Los Angeles based rave that took place in an empty football stadium. It was rumored to have attracted 185K alternative raver tweens who just wanted to party hard 2 electro music. After seeing so many weirdos attend [link] and seeing riots + stampedes break out [link], it seems like some 15 year old girl overdosed at the event. Seems like a bad thing to have a teen OD at your music festival. Can’t believe her family ‘pulled the plug’ on her. Wonder if they were disappointed in her, or thought she was making bad life decisions.

A 15-year-old girl who attended last weekend’s at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum died on Tuesday from a suspected drug overdose, authorities said.

The girl, whose name was not released, was in respiratory arrest when she arrived at California Hospital Medical Center and never recovered, a hospital official told the Los Angeles Times.

What drug do yall think she was on?

Do people die at all the time [via OD]? Is it a bad idea to try to monetize a ‘rave’ as a music festival?
Is the Electric Daisy Festival ‘gonna get its ass shut down’?

Feel like the local news is ‘having a field day’ with this story since it is probably relevant to Los Angeles families, since their kids are in the middle of an electro rebellious era:

Seems like the girl shouldn’t even have been allowed in the doors. I guess when u throw a festival, u just want to make as much money as possible:

The website for the electronic music festival said the guests had to be at least 16, raising the question of how the girl got into the event.

Feel bad for the people who run LA Coliseum. It once hosted the Olympics, but isn’t really a modern facility, so they have to find excuses to use it to try to make some money. Since it is a second class facility that holds over 100,000 people, they usually use it for Mexican soccer games or Cali-tween .

“On behalf of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, I express our dismay and deep sadness on the death of the young woman who attended the ,” Barry A. Sanders, president of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission said. “We send our sincere condolences to her family.”

Sanders said he called a special meeting of the commission “to review all the circumstances and the criteria for insuring that event promoters in our facilities have proper procedures in place to protect the health and safety of all attendees.”

“We will always be committed to the well-being of everyone who visits the Coliseum and Sports Arena.”

Seems like they are just happy to make ‘mad bank’ even if it means some1 dying

“This is basically a government-encouraged drug fest. That’s the wrong message,” Dr. Brian Johnston, director of the emergency room at White Memorial Medical Center told the Times. “It’s putting people at risk unnecessarily. It’s putting people’s health at risk.”

Jon Lee, director of marketing for the Coliseum and Los Angeles Sports Arena, called the event “a success” and said a very small percentage of the attendees misbehaved.

“We don’t like to see problems, but the vast majority had a good time without incident,” Lee said.

The Coliseum, built on state land, is run by a joint city, county and state commission. The Coliseum does not receive any taxpayer subsidies and is financially independent. It is expected to earn well over six figures from the weekend rave, or as much profit as a couple of USC games, Pat Lynch, its general manager, told the Times.

Is ‘going down the shitter’?
Will it be back next year?
Will some local city council person build their re-election platform against ‘shutting down rave death traps’?
Are ravers ‘the new punks’/anarchists/etc?
Should be monetized / earn millions of dollars?
Is Los Angeles the rave capital of the world, and should they look to ‘rebrand’?
Has electro spiraled out of control?
Do all teens who use deserve 2 die?
Can we call any of the artists/DJs who performed at EDC ‘murderers’? (Steve Aoki, Rivers Cuomo, Lil Jon, tons of other DJs)
Is the local news just produced to ‘scare old people’ and fuel their disdain of young people?

Is the ‘party promoter’ fucked, or is he just rolling around in money, rolling on ecstasy?


       

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