IronOutlaw
04-15-2012, 01:19 PM
Well I have to make a rant thread and just get some opinions on what to do. I've never seen anything like I did last night. I actually felt like my life may have been in danger along with my dads and a few other people. This is a long story so bear with me.
My family owns a skating rink here in Athens, we are located on a small commercial road that only had one exit while the other end loops around. We try to keep our rink as clean, safe and family friendly as possible and have a great reputation because of it. Across from our business is the "Athens Arena" that used to host concerts, boxing matches and different shows, but was recently purchased by a man who owns a couple of small businesses in town (junk car lot, Mexican grocery store). Now he is using it for a private venue for parties and indoor rodeos. Most of the events they have had so far have been somewhat organized and no one comes over onto our property and bothers us or causes trouble. Last night was waaay different though. :frustrated:
We were having an all night skate event at our rink. I got to work around 11 o clock pm and there were cars parked on both sides of the road all the way down it. Every parking lot of every business was full all the way down with old box chevys on 24s. I get to our rink and see my dad out front with a few other guys he knows and they look stressed out, continuously running people off of our property. I notice most of the girls getting out of the cars are wearing nothing but lingerie type stuff. 99% of the guys appear to be Lil Wayne look a likes. I park in our lot, and talk to my dad to see whats going on. He was MAD. Ive ever seen him as mad as he was last night. There was a wet spot and maxie pad in our lot right in front of our front doors where a drunk girl thought it would be funny to pop a squat and piss in front of kids and their parents picking them up. He had just ran over 10 guys off pissing on the side of our building. Weed was burning in the air STRONG.
At this point he had called the police three times. They finally sent one cop out after my dad got very stern with the dispatcher on the phone. Once she got there and seen how serious it was she called in three more cars. They basically told us that unless they see someone breaking the law they cant do anything about it, which I understand how the law works but its still frustrating. They stayed about an hour until all of the thugs and drunks got into the building and then left. They let us know that all we could do was tow cars if they parked on our property. :doh:
The party made it an amazing hour and a half before hell broke loose. I was inside the rink working when my dad came in and told me to come out front and make sure no one tries to come into our building. Apparently three shots were fired and the whole crowd comes running out at once. There was an estimated 2000. We called 911 again and they sent out three cars. We just watched helplessly as fights broke out everywhere (men and women)and glass was getting broken and cars kicked. They started pouring into our lot, some covered in blood. I felt bad for the police because it was just so chaotic. All they could do was get on loud speakers and tell everyone to go home. I mean what do you do with a group of over 2000 drunk people in their underwear (apparently it was a "pajama" party).
It took over 2 hours to get all of the cars out. We had a few parents try to come pick up their children and had to wait almost an hour to make it a half mile down our road. Im sure that after that night we are going to lose some business from parents who saw all of that. I mean I wouldnt want my kid around it. I almost think the guy who owns the building is padding some pockets in our local government. I dont see how he can have an alcohol serving permit right next to 2 different churches, and how he can have that many people pile in a building a little bigger than a highschool basketball gym without the fire marshall ever showing up. I know the guy has money because he bought a house with cash from my boss I do construction work for (over 300k). When he first got the building I think they were running drugs out of it because during the day multiple unmarked box trucks would pull into the building and leave after a few minutes. They would always keep the garage door closed unless and truck was pulling in.
The police were VERY under powered last night. It was bad to see them just letting drunk people drive/do burnouts in traffic, and fight and not do anything about it. If they start having parties like this a lot I dont know what we will do. I dont know who we should try to complain to or call. Being from a small town I was in shock seeing this. I guess some of you guys from bigger cities may see stuff like this, but I never had and it has left a bad taste in my mouth.
My family owns a skating rink here in Athens, we are located on a small commercial road that only had one exit while the other end loops around. We try to keep our rink as clean, safe and family friendly as possible and have a great reputation because of it. Across from our business is the "Athens Arena" that used to host concerts, boxing matches and different shows, but was recently purchased by a man who owns a couple of small businesses in town (junk car lot, Mexican grocery store). Now he is using it for a private venue for parties and indoor rodeos. Most of the events they have had so far have been somewhat organized and no one comes over onto our property and bothers us or causes trouble. Last night was waaay different though. :frustrated:
We were having an all night skate event at our rink. I got to work around 11 o clock pm and there were cars parked on both sides of the road all the way down it. Every parking lot of every business was full all the way down with old box chevys on 24s. I get to our rink and see my dad out front with a few other guys he knows and they look stressed out, continuously running people off of our property. I notice most of the girls getting out of the cars are wearing nothing but lingerie type stuff. 99% of the guys appear to be Lil Wayne look a likes. I park in our lot, and talk to my dad to see whats going on. He was MAD. Ive ever seen him as mad as he was last night. There was a wet spot and maxie pad in our lot right in front of our front doors where a drunk girl thought it would be funny to pop a squat and piss in front of kids and their parents picking them up. He had just ran over 10 guys off pissing on the side of our building. Weed was burning in the air STRONG.
At this point he had called the police three times. They finally sent one cop out after my dad got very stern with the dispatcher on the phone. Once she got there and seen how serious it was she called in three more cars. They basically told us that unless they see someone breaking the law they cant do anything about it, which I understand how the law works but its still frustrating. They stayed about an hour until all of the thugs and drunks got into the building and then left. They let us know that all we could do was tow cars if they parked on our property. :doh:
The party made it an amazing hour and a half before hell broke loose. I was inside the rink working when my dad came in and told me to come out front and make sure no one tries to come into our building. Apparently three shots were fired and the whole crowd comes running out at once. There was an estimated 2000. We called 911 again and they sent out three cars. We just watched helplessly as fights broke out everywhere (men and women)and glass was getting broken and cars kicked. They started pouring into our lot, some covered in blood. I felt bad for the police because it was just so chaotic. All they could do was get on loud speakers and tell everyone to go home. I mean what do you do with a group of over 2000 drunk people in their underwear (apparently it was a "pajama" party).
It took over 2 hours to get all of the cars out. We had a few parents try to come pick up their children and had to wait almost an hour to make it a half mile down our road. Im sure that after that night we are going to lose some business from parents who saw all of that. I mean I wouldnt want my kid around it. I almost think the guy who owns the building is padding some pockets in our local government. I dont see how he can have an alcohol serving permit right next to 2 different churches, and how he can have that many people pile in a building a little bigger than a highschool basketball gym without the fire marshall ever showing up. I know the guy has money because he bought a house with cash from my boss I do construction work for (over 300k). When he first got the building I think they were running drugs out of it because during the day multiple unmarked box trucks would pull into the building and leave after a few minutes. They would always keep the garage door closed unless and truck was pulling in.
The police were VERY under powered last night. It was bad to see them just letting drunk people drive/do burnouts in traffic, and fight and not do anything about it. If they start having parties like this a lot I dont know what we will do. I dont know who we should try to complain to or call. Being from a small town I was in shock seeing this. I guess some of you guys from bigger cities may see stuff like this, but I never had and it has left a bad taste in my mouth.