Sounds like LAX on a boat. No thanks.
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Sounds like LAX on a boat. No thanks.
The theme [[and music) does determine the crowd to a large extent! I've attended DP cruises for corporate and charity sponsored events. No problem. Attended other non-club like events on board. No problem. Did one of the 'Radio DJ' sponsored events and it was another world!
DP capitalized in providing the lower rate [[some would say low-rent), non-chartered sets which made them money. It started out ok. Long term that choice may cost them their larger bookings and specialty cruise offerings where people actually spent more with crowds less of a hassle to maintain.
This still doesn't excuse the fact that security was basically non-existent on the boat. How do you not check for fire-arms?
See- so sad. the company provides a nice outing. people ruin it and then they complain about racism on the part of corporate America.
My wife and I went on a DP cruise three summers ago and thoroughly enjoyed it and we were trying to fit our schedule in with another two couples for a cruise this summer but this incident will probably cancel our intent. It may not have happened exactly on the boat, but it's associated with it, at night, in Detroit. This follows a random shooting in downtown several weeks ago - time to rethink the risks of visiting Detroit particularly after 6.00p.
Everytime I hear about this type of shooting or an altercation in a fast food restaurant... this comes to mind.... someone with anger management issues [[be they black or white... and there are people of all races with this issue)....
http://youtu.be/IIFiTvZyHNI
bizarre... more craziness I don't relate to..
Sometimes its unavoidable. Delta and United do it every day.
But like many above, I too would never even consider going on that cruise. It was an incident waiting to happen.
I imagine the radio station advertised the cruise on air for months. Meaning any and everybody knew about it. And the target market is the same group that was shooting it up outside downtown nightclubs all spring.
No thanks.
You guys act like this stuff is unique to Detroit.
When we lived in Chicago, it seemed like the fireworks, Taste of Chicago, and North Ave beach got shot up every year. There it was simply "well, shit happens, I ain't changing what I do," whereas here it's all doom and gloom.
For all our talk about being "tough", we sure do seem to scare easily.
^^^ I don't think anyone is claiming this to be unique to Detroit.
But with a newly opened international port authority, and the DP [[as a venue of some tourism, public entertainment and employment etc.), experiences a senseless crime such as this IT would will be news... for a minute anyway.
Make sure you don't visit any Sikh temples or movie theaters either or any airports, airplanes or tall buildings, because, you know bad things happened in these places as well. Matter of fact the planet Earth should be avoided at all cost.
First off, when you go grocery shopping, you can't take your cart to the vehicle as metal bars have been put up.
When you go to a store or gas station, you must do business with the clerk through a bullet-proof glass while security cameras are all over watching your every move.
When you go to a Family Dollar, a voice recording says "this location is being monitored for your safety" repeatedly.
Finally, when you leave, a security guard has to check your receipt and rummage through your entire bag.
As far as getting onto the Princess, it will mean, at the very least, going through metal detectors just to access the boat like you would an Airplane.
When did you live in Chicago ? Last year ? 3 years ago ?
I think those acts of violence are kind of new at those events you mentioned, maybe within the last ten years. Same hip hop crowd that shot up this cruise is the same crowd tat disrupts those events. If you want shooting and violence in a club or bar, cater to the hip hop crowd and you'll have one, dollars to donuts.
Taste of Chicago blows anyway, lets stand in a puddle of oil in a closed off street and eat overpriced regular everyday food items.
Maybe this latest from the Detroit News will clear things up a bit:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...#ixzz22oM57QZy
"According to police, there was a family feud and two groups got into an argument," said John Chamberlain, CEO of CJC Cruises Inc. "One woman called her boyfriend and told him to bring a gun down to the dock. She got off the boat, got the gun from the boyfriend and started shooting at the other family as they got off the boat.
"She really went kind of crazy and pulled the trigger a lot of times."
According to Chamberlain, the family being shot at retrieved a gun from a car and started shooting at the woman and her boyfriend as they fled the scene.
"They hit the boyfriend, and apparently, he's the one who was seriously injured," Chamberlain said. "The other six people were only slightly injured, mostly nicked. This was really an ugly incident."
Police have interviewed the wounded boyfriend and have obtained the identity of the woman who started the shooting spree, Chamberlain said.
Initial information from the Detroit Police Department mirrors Chamberlain's understanding of the incident.
So the guy who brought the first gun to the scene takes a bullet from the family that was fired upon.
All outside and off the boat. Princess owner also states, "We're just like the airlines; we check every person for weapons who comes on board. And we do our best to stop problems right away."