IF the concert gods behave...
There's a 30% chance of rain. But that means they'll be 70% chance it won't! ;-)
But usually the concert gods smile at me....
Well....for those planning on tailgating. The little underage fucktards ruin it again just like Ozzfest last year (17 underage kids taken to the Hospital with alcohol poisoning and 2 deaths from alcohol/drugs)and VR was playing the next day. Now Jones Beach parking lot will be CRAWLING with Police.:
Melee breaks out in parking lot during Jones Beach concert
BY MARC BEJA |
marc.beja@newsday.com Citations and arrests after a parking lot melee at a Jones Beach show by popular band O.A.R. went well beyond the usual concert calls cops get at the venue.
"They were drinking more often at the O.A.R. concert than any other concert . . . this year, and the year before and the year before," said State Park Police Capt. Bruce Marx of Saturday night's event.
Police said numerous fights broke out and 24 minors were taken to Nassau University Medical Center for treatment of alcohol poisoning.
In the parking lot outside of the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, police wrote approximately 100 summonses for having beer on the premises.Although 12 officers were originally assigned two weeks ago to patrol the concert, additional state park officers were brought in during the concert from other posts around New York to work at Jones Beach, bringing the total to 50, Marx said. Typically, about 12 officers are assigned to a sold-out show at Jones Beach, he added.
Sgt. Manny Vilar of the State Park Police supervisor's union said he believed there would have been even more arrests and tickets if there were more officers present, speaking on behalf of the union and not the police department.
"We should have originally staffed it with 100 people," Vilar said. "You can't control nine or 10 thousand people with 50 police officers."
Spokesman Jim Steen of the concert organizer, Live Nation, said, "The overwhelming majority" of the show's 10,000 or so patrons were "behaving appropriately."
The venue has a seating capacity of about 14,000.
At the band's concert Friday at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., 23 minors were arrested and charged with a variety of charges related to alcohol and marijuana use, New Jersey State Police Sgt. Julian Castellanos said.
