budha
The one with the drink
Registered: Jan 2004
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Location: The Green Heart, NL
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"Ibiza woke up to ugly news for clubbers this morning: a whiplash Government mandate to shut down DC10 for the next two months and Amnesia and Bora Bora for the next month, effective immediately. Our source says clubs are banding together to take legal action, and will be bringing you updates as and when news happens."
"Holy shit" was all I could say when I heard. A whirlwind of vicious rumours about policing and politics always blows through Ibiza like an ill wind, but seeing the news in a three-line head on the front page of Diario de Ibiza still came as a rude, rude shock.
The news inside was brief, non-specific, but to the point. The action is in response to local police and Guardia Civil reports on the use and/or dealing of drugs within the venues during 2005-2006, and the allegation the clubs have done nothing to stop it.
Their argument is: it's dangerous and it damages Ibiza's tourist credentials. Also, they say, during the opening weekend this summer 450 people were found to be in possession of intoxicating drugs, and one hospital took in 11 people with symptoms of drug intoxication (though no details were supplied as to the types of drug(s) involved, or the number of cases involving alcohol abuse in the same period). Where do you start with that line up of information? Curiously, no facts or figures are given for the drug use "observed" in 2005-2006. Or, more saliently, to back up the Government assertion that the use created "dangerous situations." After spending seven sweaty, crowded, but peaceful hours in DC10 last Monday (where two blokes tried, but didn't quite manage to have a fight, and wound up shaking hands and dancing together 20 minutes later) I walked back to my hotel through the West End of Sant Antoni. The streets were crammed with ferociously drunk Brits staggering, shouting, shoving or simply collapsing. It was the only time all weekend I felt unsafe, and I'm prepared to swear none of them were taking drugs.
Fight for your rights to party, post your comments. (See link, Below)
http://www.ibiza-voice.com/news/news.php?id=1143
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08-06-2007 19:20 PM
Gutted.