In light of the recent nightclub incidents, are the clubs you frequent safe?

[Virtual Violet]

Originally posted by 2Tuff2Quit
In all actuality I had stopped going to clubs about a year ago. I just didn't see the point of them and the ones that I were at weren't any fun. Now with all this stuff going on I am glad that I don't have the desire to go to clubs. I mean my situation is different though. I am still in college so instead of paying $5-10 to get in a club..I just go to the campus parties and get in for free, and I don't have to lose my parking space. I am sure when I graduate and go back home, I will try clubs again, but after all of this I will be ALOT more careful of the clubs that I go in. You can never be to careful now-a-days.

Where do you go that still charges only 5-10 dollars? Five to ten bucks can't get you into some college parties and clubs cost $25 and up

[vanda]

The night before the E2 tragedy, some friends and I had decided to get together for a birthday party at a little dive/club here. Tickets cost $25 and $35 at the door. It's amazing that less than twelve hours, we were thinking otherwise.

[2Tuff2Quit]

At the college that I go to the parties are free for ladies and for guys it cost $5. After 11 the prices go up to ladies to like $3 and guys to like $6. Now, I haven't been to a club for a couple years, but when I did go the ladies where free and dudes paid $10, but that was like two years ago so I don't know what the prices are now, but when I hear events at the clubs advertised on the radio those are generally the prices I hear a majority of the time. I think that it probably cost more in the bigger cities such as Chicago and NY and places like that than it would other places such as North Carolina. Down here when there are big events, say one of the surrounding HBCU's homecoming is that weekend, then alot of the clubs are PACKED and they do charge close to $20, but that is just too much in my opinion.

[librasoul22]

Originally posted by 2Tuff2Quit
At the college that I go to the parties are free for ladies and for guys it cost $5. After 11 the prices go up to ladies to like $3 and guys to like $6. Now, I haven't been to a club for a couple years, but when I did go the ladies where free and dudes paid $10, but that was like two years ago so I don't know what the prices are now, but when I hear events at the clubs advertised on the radio those are generally the prices I hear a majority of the time. I think that it probably cost more in the bigger cities such as Chicago and NY and places like that than it would other places such as North Carolina. Down here when there are big events, say one of the surrounding HBCU's homecoming is that weekend, then alot of the clubs are PACKED and they do charge close to $20, but that is just too much in my opinion.

I knew you must live in a college town. I do too. The lubs around here are typically $5-$10 for admission. Some nights (like tonight), most have a flat cover charge (usually $7) and free drinks. I have been to almost every club here and I have never found one that charges more, unless there is a special event (i.e. homecoming).

Then again, when I party in Atlanta, NYC, etc. I know to bring at least $50 with me (drinks and stuff, lol )

[Gina1201]

NEW YORK (March 9) - Eight people were shot and others were stabbed and trampled early Sunday when fighting broke out inside a nightclub above a Times Square arcade, police said.

A man who was shot in the chest and a woman shot in the stomach appeared to be the most seriously injured. Both were in critical condition Sunday, said Sgt. Dennis Ferber, a police spokesman.

Three people were hospitalized with stab wounds, and at least two people were trampled by frantic clubgoers trying to escape the fighting and gunfire, police said. Their conditions and the conditions of the others shot were not immediately known, but police said the injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.

Club security guard Omar Leger said he was in a bathroom when he heard gunshots about 2:40 a.m., and emerged to see people running toward the exits. He said clubgoers were falling and tripping over each other as they scrambled to get out.

''People were getting trampled,'' said Leger, who estimated that as many as 350 people were inside the Broadway City Arcade's club, on 42nd Street, a busy tourist area.

''Sometimes we have a couple of fights, but nothing like this,'' he said.

Police were investigating the cause of the brawl and talking to three people arrested on weapons charges at a nearby subway station shortly after the fight.

A man who answered the phone at the arcade early Sunday declined to comment.

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[1savvydiva]

See, that's why I don't go anywhere! I usually only go to 'college-sponsored' events, because everytime my friends and I go to a club it seems people don't know how to act!!! I know that even at 'college' functions there is foolishness, but I actually feel a bit safer at a greek function, or homecoming function than at a local club scene! I just don't know.

[1savvydiva]

Originally posted by Gina1201


Three people were hospitalized with stab wounds, and at least two people were trampled by frantic clubgoers trying to escape the fighting and gunfire, police said. Their conditions and the conditions of the others shot were not immediately known, but police said the injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.

Hey I was just reading this story on AOL, and it was saying that the people shot and stabbed were between the ages of 17-25. WHY in the hell were they 17-year olds in the club???