04-05-2018, 10:25 PM
(04-05-2018, 09:18 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(04-05-2018, 06:53 PM)jeffster Wrote: I agree...however, this thing isn't going to ratchet down. The region needs to be totally hands off on this. We can't be tying up our resources for an illegal party hosted by selfish self-centred 18-21 year olds getting drunk. Either the universities hire police and ambulance services from outside the region, open up a emergency unit in one of the mess halls, or let it goes as is until something tragic happens, then it will shut itself down.
I predict though, that something bad is going to happen in 2019. The police in this region have zero control of this party, and the City of Waterloo has zero interest in getting involved. 2019 could be the breaking point.
Why would it shut itself down?
What would actually happen if something tragic happened is people would look at every possibly-relevant government agency and ask why they didn’t do anything to prevent it. Then they would have to do something, probably a lot, the next year.
I’m not sure why you think something bad will happen specifically next year. From what I heard it actually went fairly well this year — I mean, sure, the street (avenue!) didn’t remain passable to traffic, but there wasn’t a riot, there wasn’t extensive property damage or many injuries — so personally I predict it will stay similar to this year, at least if the police do the same next year as they did this year. Do we have a reason to believe more out-of-towners will come next year?
As I had mentioned before, we need to discontinue EMS for that area, which is my main concern.
CTV had an interesting news piece on today, it was about the consequences of drinking and driving. When there is an incident, the amount of resources that go into this obviously takes away from elsewhere. The officer was saying how it could take an hour for police to arrive at another call because they're being stretch so thin.
The consequences of using our EMS for an event like this, will, eventually, lead to a severe incident where someone outside the party dies because services are unavailable. That's if it doesn't happen in the party first. It's something I'm not willing to risk, and neither should anyone here. We already were told the details (the facts) that EMS wasn't available for much of the party.
Why I think next year is because it will be a Sunday, the crowds will be even larger, and depending on the weather (or perhaps it doesn't matter), and it will likely be too much for the services to handle.
Hopefully they'll bill the city of Waterloo and the two universities for the added costs.