Yes they WERE funny looking!
Posted on 01/03/2011 5:33:30 PM PST by La Lydia
The parents of 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez, who died of an ecstasy overdose after attending a rave, have filed a claim against the management of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The parents are seeking $5 million in damages from the Coliseum Commission. The claim, filed Dec. 23 with both the city and county of Los Angeles, is a necessary step before suing in court. The claim says the commission, a joint state, city and county board, did not fulfill its "duties and was negligent in creating and/or allowing others to create a dangerous condition of public property" during the two-day Electric Daisy Carnival rave at the Coliseum in June.
Sasha Rodriguez, a high school student and drill team member from Atwater Village, was able to get into the event despite the 16-and-over age requirement advertised by Los Angeles-based Insomniac Events, the producer of the rave. Those under 16 needed a parent or guardian to attend, according to the event's website. Sasha attended with friends; her parents have said they did not know she was going to a rave. She died days after falling into a coma after attending the rave.
The Coliseum "knew, or should have known, that the rave would attract, promote, encourage, facilitate and enable widespread illegal and illicit activity, including but not limited to the possession, sale and consumption of illicit drugs," the claim says....
The Electric Daisy Carnival rave, which drew 185,000 people over two days, resulted in 120 people being taken to local hospitals, mostly for drug intoxication. Coliseum managers said there were no major problems at subsequent raves Aug. 21 and Oct. 23, which attracted 6,000 and 22,000 people, respectively. A New Year's Eve rave, Together as One, at the Sports Arena resulted in 25 arrests and 17 hospitalizations....
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My thoughts exactly. Sad situation, but no way should anyone be found culpable but themselves.
Countersuit: PArents of this 15 year old daughter ATTENDING A RAVE should have known she was prone to take drugs and engage in risky, stupid, and potentially deadly behavior.
These parents ought to be strung up for attempting this lawsuit. As well as the lawyers they hired.
You didn’t read the memo from the Paultard Freepers.
The correct interpretation is that this would not have happened except for the war on drugs.
Everything would be fine and the kid would be alive if drugs were legal.
Damn, that sounds just as stupid as when the libtardarians say it.
Sad story, sorry their daughter died. The parents need to look inward and look at what part they played, and quit listening to sheister(?) lawyers.
Is there an age of majority for taking Ecstasy? I thought the drug was illegal, no matter how old the person is.
Do not take the brown acid, I repeat ?dica nworb eht ton
od. Look! In the sky! What the frak is that thing?
Sorry, nevermind.
Years ago a stupid teenage boy climbed over the barbed wire barrier, including the angled out barbed wire, and onto a trnsformer.
The obvious happened and he died.
The parents made public that they were going to sue. Public outrage made them change their minds within a few days.
Happened in Colorado Springs, IIRC in the 80’s
That’s what should happen here. Won’t but should.
MR. SALT: I never saw anybody with an orange face before.
Funny-looking people, aren’t they, Wonka?
The parents should be prosecuted for negligent homicide.
Yet another set of guilt-ridden parents who want to blame anyone but themselves and their daughter for the daughter OD’ing on drugs. How many kids were in that Coliseum who didn’t OD on drugs? I’m sorry the girl died too but if the parents want to blame someone other than, of course, the girl for actually taking the drugs, they should point the finger right at themselves. At one level or another, their bad parenting killed their kid.
She actually died from hyponatremia, not from the drug itself. If you dance for hours in a hot environment while consuming lots of water without commensurate electrolytes it won’t matter what you’ve taken.
The parents should be prosecuted for negligent homicide.
I don’t doubt it. I don’t know what Ecstasy does, but it may have impaired her perception of how dehydrated or electrolyte imbalanced she became. I don’t really see the issue quite as how she died, but that her parents want to sue. I have serious issues with that. As parents, perhaps they should have had more awareness of where and what a 15 year old daughter of theirs was doing. At a rave? Good Lord.
The Coliseum is culpable because they failed to enforce their own posted minimum age requirements and make sure that minors were in fact accompanied by the required adult parent/guardian.
When a bar serves minors they are fined and can lose their liquor license. Same thing here, you can’t shed liability by claiming the minors were breaking rules you weren’t even enforcing anyway.
Of course, sue the taxpayers instead of the people who gave the idiot brat the drug.
16 is so much better than 15 for drugs, drink and whoring. lol.
When a bar serves minors they are fined and can lose their liquor license. Same thing here, you can’t shed liability by claiming the minors were breaking rules you weren’t even enforcing anyway.
You are right. Of course, according to this thread (not the article), the girl was an idiot brat, a whore, and her parents committed manslaughter (knowledge I wasn't privy to from just reading the article), so it seems they all deserved what they got.
Honestly, the longer I live, it seems some people come to conservatism as a reasoned response to the world; but some latch on to it because they mistakenly identify it as a philosophy akin to their own well established arrogance and deficiency of heart.
>>Yet another set of guilt-ridden parents who want to blame anyone but themselves and their daughter for the daughter OD’ing on drugs.>>
That would be giving the parents the benefit of the doubt. They could just as easily be a couple of abusive or negligent parents seizing an opportunity to score in a lawsuit lottery.
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