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as much as i hate raver culture even i think this is insane....

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Club pledges to do its part to stop drugs
Published in The Orlando Sentinel on September 21, 2000
Pamela J. Johnson
After an intense weeklong debate, a settlement was in the works Wednesday that would keep open the embattled Cyberzone bottle club.
The Orange County Sheriff`s Office sought to close the club as a public nuisance after two patrons ejected from the premises later died of drug overdoses. On Wednesday, Cyberzone vowed to meet terms proposed by the county.
"We really believe it`s in everybody`s best interest to resolve this," club lawyer Mark NeJame said. "We don`t want drug activity in the place."
Among the eight stipulations agreed to by Cyberzone owner Dan Davis are increasing surveillance cameras and off-duty deputy sheriffs at the Lee Road club, NeJame said.
Patrons will be thoroughly searched and barred from bringing in pacifiers, wands, glow-sticks, lollipops and Vicks-type inhalers. Authorities say the paraphernalia stimulates the use of drugs, such as Ecstasy. (emphasise added by jb)
The club also has agreed to keep an off-duty paramedic on site Friday and Saturday night.
Some of the proposals already were implemented long ago, NeJame said. For example, according to the lawyer, Davis already had installed about $70,000 worth of surveillance equipment. NeJame also said it was Davis who suggested that patrons be searched.
County officials have characterized the late-night club as a breeding ground for drug abuse. They tried to convince a judge that the establishment is a threat to public safety. Circuit Judge James Stroker set a Sept. 28 hearing on the matter.
But on Wednesday, NeJame sent a letter to officials saying changes demanded of the club would be met. The county Nuisance Abatement Board would ratify any agreement next week. County commissioners would give it final approval.
"It looks like we`re getting there," Orange County Sheriff`s Office attorney Vincent Scarlatos said Wednesday.
The only sticking point is Cyberzone`s request that information it gives to sheriff`s officials about drug activity at the club not be used as grounds to shut down the business.
In cooperating with authorities, the club has helped identify seven suspected drug dealers. Sheriff`s officials later used those suspects as an example of why the club should be closed.
Both sides decided that issue would not be included in the proposed settlement.
"We`ll remain silent on the issue for now and see what happens," Scarlatos said.
If an agreement were given final approval, the club would be given a 60-day grace period in which to show that drug activity has decreased.
Last October, about 100 deputies and police officers raided the club and arrested 10 people on drug-related charges. A year earlier, two men died of heroin overdoses in a motel room near Cyberzone. One victim had supplied Ecstasy to club patrons, according to court records.
The most recent deaths occurred earlier this month when Santiago Jaramillo, 19, and David W. Steib, 20, both of Orlando, died hours after being kicked out of the club.
Posted Sep 20 2000 11:00PM
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/automagic/news/2000-09-21/LOCcyber21ART092100.html
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"i think i'll stick to drugs to get me thru the long, dark night of late-capitalism..."
Irvine Welsh
 
Oh my god...to keep themselves from being shut down, the club 'gave up' seven known drug dealers!??!...Are they out of their cotton-pickin FUNCKING minds?!?!?
If they weren't out of business bfore, they are now!!
Oh, and this all started because of a rise in PMA laced pills (that's the news on this from Orlando)...it was nothing to do with the heroin deaths nearby...
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How? What? Who?
*shakes head in disgust*
...so far to go, so very far...
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Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
 
jb: i think the people should be shot for bringing wands, glowsticks or whatever, not arrested
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all those accessories are fucking tacky and cheesy!!!
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"for all you rave poppers we cast a shadow on your face
learn the history and then take your fucking drum and your bass"
- People Under The Stairs "Asshole"
 
You should see the club though. I heard of these rules before I went there and thought the same as you guys. But the place is full of people who are obviously out of their minds on drugs....eyes rolling back in their heads, looking just completely fucked.
The whole club *is* a haven for drug takers. No one in their right minds would even bother going if they weren't going for the drugs.
The decor is totally blacklight dependant...it all fucking glows! No one is there for the music either cause it sucks arse. It's full of drug takers and drug dealers.
No wonder they're trying to crack down on the club. It was the worst example of open flaunting of drug use in a club I saw in the states.
I think the measures they're taking can only be a good thing for Cyberzone. I just hope it doesn't set a precedent for any clubs that aren't like Cyberzone and are there for people who want more from their clubbing experience than drugs. That's what people should be concerned about.
 
Cheer Miss Apple! All too often we are seeing anti drug reports as being extreme.
Perhaps it is time for the club not to be so blatently obviously a drug den. If the music kicked, the vibe rocked and it wasn't full of Americans then perhaps they have gone too far.
From what you are saying Miss Apple is true (and of course it is!), then when a club has degenerated to the point where bikies are dealing speed on the dance floor (errr *cough*) then perhaps its time to move on...
 
... or it's time that they installed metal-detectors to stop those bikers who are dealing speed on the dancefloor from bringing in their guns with them.
*shudder*
 
that article is such a joke !!
" Authorities say the paraphernalia stimulates the use of drugs, such as Ecstasy. "
wtf ? do they really think that the paraphernalia stimulates drug use ???
hehehe using stimulates the paraphenalia doesn't it ?
btw ... my first post ! yay !
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[This message has been edited by Melbourne BlueLord (edited 03 October 2000).]
 
they installed metal detectors after a fatal bikie shooting at the Blackmarket in Syd. It's an infamous dirty dingy club which holds a Sunday dayclub known for being packed full of bikies, gangsters, dealers and basically crims in general. Had one of my scariest nights there, well I was scared for some of my friends who didn't know where they were and who was arriving.
Some smart rave promoter decided to hold an ring-up all-age rave there one Saturday night, and the end of the rave coincided with the arrival of the dayclubbers with 99% of them wearing black so you could imagine how a raver might tend to stand out.
The dayclubbers began to pour into the place they flock to every Sunday and wondered what the hell was going on in the place. If the ravers knew what was good for them they would have left just a tad early instead of screaming "one more" while lost in the music sucking on pacifiers and waving glowsticks.
 
here's hoping they would never get to this, but can't these imbiciles even understand what does make it good, not just what's brought in for show?
 
hey apples! Woncha make sum sorta rundown of the NA cities you visited with yor upinion of eatch wone?
Yooou kan lieve itt inn thee Ow-str-alien discushin sew wee Ah-mer-icans don't get ahwl jumpie frum yor scharpp Ow-stray-lianne calm-en-tarry.
thaink yu,
won proud Ah-mer-ican
 
Actually XS11V, it was an 18+ rave and majority of the people there knew what they were getting themselves into before they bought their tickets and went.
The temple of Boom / Blackmarket is well known, even by ravers, and still, if people didn't know before they went, they knew before the clubbers got their in the morning.
Don't you remember all the people who were thrown out through the night, who were beat up and had drugs/money stolen from them in the toilets by the security?
Honestly, the clubbers arriving the next morning were not the scariest thing.
jaX*
 
bahahahha everytime an american does an australian accent it ends up sounding like some sort of retarded cockney.. but LO has somehow managed to pull it off, at least typing it... i'd love to hear that in person one day mate.
 
sorry BliSSS but my brilliant memroy has failed my once again
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I stand corrected. No i'm afraid I didn't hear about people being beaten up in the toilets but it certainly doesn't surprise me. The fact that it was O18 doesn't really affect what i was saying - there were still kids (ok well 'technically' adults) sucking on pacifiers which wouldn't have been a pretty sight for those entering the dayclub.
 
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