Re: RE: Boston Globe Online / Metro | Region / WPRI reporter's link to club stirs ethical questions

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

Ok lets be real here
If club owner in NJ so outraged by use of pyro in his club  why didn't 
he alert other owners? A groups tourlist not hard to find.

Showing up on CNN after the fact doesn't do the 96 dead any good.


On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 8:05PM -0500, Steve West wrote:
> Okay, I'll bite.  An arguement can be made that the club may have used 
> pyro
> in the past.  I think though, that the fact they did would have no 
> bearing
> on this tragedy if in fact the club did NOT, as claimed, give 
> permission for
> pyro to Great White.
>
> Again, I'm no lawyer, but what was allowed last year or at some other 
> event
> shouldn't prejudice this event.  Past events didn't cause this 
> tragedy,
> although it could damage the owner's credibility.
>
>>  That makes sense to me.  Yesterday, the media appeared to want to 
>> quickly
>>  jump to the conclusion that only the band was to blame.  Today, a 
>> former
>>  club employee is quoted as saying that pyro had been used at the club 
>> in
> the
>>  past.  That brings into question that repeated statements that the 
>> pyro
> was
>>  used without the permission or knowledge of the club.
>>
>>  -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
>>