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Originally Posted by hardcopi
Nope not trolling. I figured a few mentors and kids driving around the parking lot is not that dangerous...
...The truth is that having that many kids with that much money in equipment is just asking for trouble. Security should have been everywhere in that place. I saw some, but not nearly enough.
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hardcopi;
Just have seen too many issues with law enforcement and teenagers. I am
NOT deriding law enforcement just know how it is when tempers are running high or people are overly hyped up on both sides of the equation.
A bunch of teenagers participating a parking lot version of a neighborhood watch in a town where they may never have been before just feels dangerous all over it to me, even
with a level-headed mentor in the mix. All it would take is for one of them to post it to social media and the next thing you know you have 10,000 FIRST teenagers mobbing the scene. Let's face it, not all mentors/coaches/chaperones are responsible adults themselves.
I do agree that this many kiddos, that much equipment, etc. all spells for a higher danger factor and something has to give. Expanded security is definitely necessary. Sounds like they may have hired the wrong crew though.
Keep in mind, the shift to St. Louis from Atlanta was what...5 years ago...or was it 6? A lot changes happen in a city over that amount of time. St. Louis was probably a slightly different place back then.