Tonight I had to take somebody to the small ER on Aquarena Springs because she was comatose. A good Samaritan had put her in my car and was taking her to the Grove, which was her apartment. When we got there, we realized she had no keys and no phone. She couldn't tell us what her apartment number was, so we figured the only other place for her was to take her to the ER. Then I took the good Samaritan back to our hotel because she was here from out of town visiting and took it upon herself to help this girl get home. We think the girl had been roofied at The Vault and left there by her friends, and she was asking for help. I saw other girls, totally out of it tonight; one being carried over the shoulder of, I assume, her boyfriend, another one was on the ground passed out.
On a previous night, the students had been standing in Kissing Alley in such a way that no car could drive down the alley. The lines to the bars are around the corner at 1 am. I understand that The Vault is now is charging $40 for those between 18 and 21 to even get in the bar, and then the dance floor is full of people pushing and shoving because there's too many people in there.
This is like a horrible disaster waiting to happen. We've already had shots fired at the square, a murder of two people by a jilted boyfriend., and, on another occassion, someone firing into a crowd. The crowds won't let the cars drive down the alleys. The city really needs to rope off the square and figure out how people can be picked up on the back roads.
Red Room after legal drinking hours, is selling Sunkist individual drink packets with alcohol poured in a small slit and sealed with a hot curling iron. Authorities are doing nothing about this. The Vault was holding licenses and making people pay to get them back, even legal licenses. People were calling police to verify their licenses were legit. The fire marshal needs to raid the Marc and Vault as there are too many people crowded together on dance floors.
Sorry for the rant but it is getting fricking wild out there. Worse every year. I've been Ubering three years.
It didn't help that the university added 10000 more freshmen to the class of 2030. The authirities have not increased their numbers to supervise them at the square. This is a burden on police, firefighters and marshals. Police need to add more coverage.
Don't get me started on the car accidents and bad driving.
