Shooting during a Carl Cox set in Caracas, Venezuela

[snooch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q62K4_N5D1s

Some carnage in there. It's a shame that that had to happen.

[dan the acid man]

truly shocking, why doi people feel the need to do such things, especially at an event where people are going to just enjoy themselves

[SlavikSvensk]

jesus that's f***ed up

[lunatrick]

I think something similar happened whilst Chris Liberator was playing a party in Venezuela as well.....bit of a worrying trend....would probably put a lot of dj's off going there I imagine...

[snooch]

Usually it's El Salvador with all the MS13 thugs shooting it out. I guess Venezuela has a big problem too. Their market for international techno talent just got a whole lot smaller. What a shame.

[xes]

f*cking gun toting wannabe gangsta cunts.:grr:

When was this?

[fatcollective]

thats fvckin terrible...totally crazy shit!!

[The Overfiend]

Shameful, absolutely shameful.

Welcome to real life.

[koma]

why the **** did they remove it???

[xes]

It showed people writhing in pain after being shot,and at least 1 definate dead guy. Possibly it was taken down due to it's content/respect for the people killed or injured,or the investigation that is to follow.

[Technobitch]

it was mad to see all the people just standing there filming it, either help or get the f**k out of there

[The Overfiend]

Liability, that promoter is goin to get sued to shit.

[crime]

Liability, that promoter is goin to get sued to shit.

I doubt it somehow, not everywhere in the world has a compensation culture like the US, and I doubt your average venezualan has the kind of cash to throw about to start trying to take club organisers to court...

[DannyBlack]

i can understand someone wanting to shoot Tiesto, but Carl Cox, the guy is a legend. twats.

[The Overfiend]

From the looks of it I don't think Cox was the intended target, a lot of those gangs operate by prooving points, especially in South America. The whole point is showing how ill they are and unfearing of authority or events and such.

[stjohn]

http://www.beatfactor.ro/stiri/2489

up on another site.. JESUS!!! that is rough

[davethedrummer]

i just got back from there!!!

it was on saturday night in caracas !! we played on friday in caracas and were out of town on saturday.
it was a revenge shooting because a guy got dumped by his girlfriend
so he shot her and her new bloke and a few others too at the party ,it was nothing to do with carl cox at all.
how pathetic

the barrio gangs in caracas are using these big events to settle drug scores regularly now and the promoters know but they still don't have metal detectors on the door , or hightly trained security
jst a bunch of thick blokes who have no idea how to control crowds or administer first aid or anything like that
in fact there's a good chance security were in on it.

it's insane , but it is limited to certain types of events , namely big ones where people think they can get away with it
and events that are promoted with posters in the barrios ( slums ) will obviously attract the poorer people which will bring the gangs and the guns

this venue had a history of violent problems too , you'd think they'd at least try to tighten it up on the security.

but to be honest its all about money , same old same old
the guys who run the gig don't seem to give a shit about anything except counting the coins someone posted on a venezuelan forum a picture of 2 handheld metal detectors and underneath a quote saying
" 3 tickets would have bought these 2 machines "

crazy isnt it?
and we have metal detectors here even , shows how ****ing paranoid we are eh?

i had a shock at the airport a couple of times over there with the cops and their corrupt way of working , so has chris, and everyone else since without exception pretty much.
including venezuelan mates of ours who have moved away because the violence and the corruption.

a dangerous place to live for sure
beautiful and friendly and fun , but essentially dangerous and you can never forget that.


it's interesting to observe the human condition
but man , it is nice to get home after!

[Technobitch]

noway, nice one for the info henry - nutts shit

[eyeswithoutaface]

looks like a class night, definately going next month!!!






....joke.... this is insane, what a crazy situation to suddenly be in as either a dj, clubber, promoter etc etc.... a rare event though im sure??

[Technobitch]

yeah a well mad situation why i dont get all the ppl filming it, its not just the main guy you can see filming it there are ppl below him too