OCEAN CITY — Resort officials are preparing for an unsanctioned event in early June that caused a ruckus in Virginia Beach last year.
In April 2013, an unsanctioned College Beach Weekend event in Virginia Beach resulted in crowds estimated at 40,000 to 50,000 college-age individuals invading the town’s oceanfront area. According to reports, the big crowds roamed the streets, disrupted traffic and businesses, and generally scared local residents and other visitors. Perhaps more importantly, the event included several significant crimes including three shootings, multiple stabbings and other serious crimes all in the span of about four hours.
The event was promoted extensively in social network media outlets and on college campus websites and blogs. An informal poll of the participants revealed most were from Virginia and Maryland schools, although many reportedly came from as far away as California. The same event returned to Virginia Beach last month with a decidedly different outcome. Virginia Beach Police and city officials were prepared and expanded their police presence and braced for the crowd’s arrival.
Perhaps more importantly, Virginia Beach officials attempted to embrace the influx of visitors rather than take a combative stance and urged local businesses to stay open and welcome the influx of offseason business rather than shutting their doors. The results were a much calmer event with few incidents.
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5 comments:
Black "Greek Week" has been happening in VA Beach off and on with and without incident for over 30 years. Also the Black crotch rocket riders have been coming to OC the week after Memorial day for the last 5 or 6 years.
Oh goody. All the ghetto rats from Salisbury will be coming also to raise hell
What you fail to read here until you open the article and it's near the end is the fact that it's black college students. Everywhere they go there is trouble. You know it's bad when UMES won't even allow them to have large gatherings on their campus. They have had parties at the Delmar Convention Center and the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center and guess what happened? They destroyed the places and it cost tax payers thousands of dollars to repair and thousands of dollars in police protection as well as ambulance transports for the black rioting.
Look what happened at the Elks Club a couple of weekends ago when the Elks was rented out for a black birthday party.
Face it, they are uncivilized in gangs.
1:49-Now in Selbyville no alcohol is to be served after 11pm. This ordinance was passed because Pomeroy's was having a DJ that played that rap crap and yes, they acted uncivilized and police had to be called on numerous occasions so the town nipped it in the bud. This is why stereotyping exists. When you act like out of control morons, decent people are going to look down at you and you will get shot and killed if you act up like Trayvon Martin did.
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1:49-Now in Selbyville no alcohol is to be served after 11pm. This ordinance was passed because Pomeroy's was having a DJ that played that rap crap and yes, they acted uncivilized and police had to be called on numerous occasions so the town nipped it in the bud. This is why stereotyping exists. When you act like out of control morons, decent people are going to look down at you and you will get shot and killed if you act up like Trayvon Martin did.
May 28, 2014 at 2:59 PM
The bar owner should have laid down the law and got rid of that wannabe DJ for playing that rap crap.
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