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Club Spundae in Los Angeles RAIDED by DEA & ABC!!!!
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| Punkaweedus |
(Here is an email I wrote to many of my friends here in LA. I figured you all might want to know about it as well....)
Hey,
Just wanted to bring this to your attention. Apparently on Friday night, club 1015 (Spundae in SF) was raided by the DEA and ABC under the umbrella of "Operation X-Out", an attempt to rid California nightclubs of Ecstasy use/sales. This happened at Spundae @ Circus in L.A. on Saturday night as well, where allegedly 10,000 pills were confiscated and 25 ppl, including 6 Circus employees, were arrested. The following links provide more detail:
www.abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/120902_nw_club_raid.html
www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/11/22/club.drugs.ap/index.html
http://pub80.ezboard.com/fspundae44...icID=6287.topic (this one is from the Spundae messageboard)
What the govn't will now attempt to do is get the liquor license revoked for every "rave nightclub", basically shutting the venue down. No alcohol sales = no customers = no profits. This is probably going to end up being very detrimental to our scene, many if not most of the clubs we attend weekly are going to face the same investigations, if they haven't already. The stereotype of "techno music" and "techno clubs" and "raves" are all being used against us by the govn't, and with great effect. I know that there are huge drug sales & consumption at these clubs, no one can deny or refute that. And sadly this is probably what will be the eventual end of this scene, at least for clubbing. However, Gene La Pietra, owner of Circus & Arena clubs, will be making a statement in defense of his clubs this afternoon. Check tonite's local news broadcast, I'm sure the media will put some horrible spin on everything and make it even worse than what it already is.
Anyways, just wanted to give you a heads up.
-Mark |
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| blazed it |
| oh no! i hope they don't shut down spundae because of this. |
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| butterfly |
| on a positive note, vinyl in nyc lost its liquor liscence years ago and the space is now the best venue in new york, IMO. |
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| Grimey |
| theres a lot of rave type clubs here that dont sell booze...they are still running... |
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| nrjizer |
| Oh well, all this will do is push it back underground where it belongs... |
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| Essential1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Grimey
theres a lot of rave type clubs here that dont sell booze...they are still running... |
Such as? |
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| Neo nEro |
CNN article| quote: | | Judi Clark, the mother of 15-year-old Samantha Reid, who died in 1999 from an overdose of GHB slipped into her soda, said at the news conference that teenagers underestimate the drug's power. |
i am sure that it was just a soda not an alcohol drink. Maybe they shouldn't let 15 year olds into clubs |
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| benfica88 |
| quote: | | Oh well, all this will do is push it back underground where it belongs... |
I agree, half the wankers just go for the drugs :whip: |
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