At 10:10 AM 2/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 10 lines I am concerned for nightclubs. Richmond, whose conservative city fathers>I am concerned for nightclubs. Richmond, whose conservative city fathers
>already hate nightclubs, had its daily paper run an editorial cartoon with
>Death waiting to pay a cover to get into a nightclub. Combine these latest
>tragedies with some of the already draconian, anti-youth laws going into
>effect and it does not take a genius to see that this industry is under the
>gun. Its too bad. Its a real shame, because with file-sharing and the major
>corporate labels losing tons of money (and not being able to pay all their
>lawyers), independent live music was poised to take on more stature up to
>this point. Now everybody is going to have to pay for more security guards
>and sprinkler systems.
My goodness, did you just say that sprinkler systems are stupid?
These clubs should be equipped with this sort of crap already. Few other
businesses are able to get away with it, so why should nightclubs be
excepted? All modern movie theaters, even retrofitted ones, have clearly
marked, easy to access exits in case something happens, and a good
sprinkler system to protect from fires. And the row system implemented in
theaters is MUCH worse in panic situations than a rather open
nightclub. If any other public facility was operating in the manner that
this nightclub was, they'd be shut down or fined heavily. The nightclub
chose to disregard the rules, and now people are dead. Sounds like the
owners have the problem, not the government.
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