Official Tiki Oasis 11 thread - California Events

CL Coco Loco Member Exotic Isle of Alameda Joined: Mar 21, 2004 Posts: 820	CL Coco Loco Posted posted on Fri, Sep 2, 2011 7:57 PM Couple of thoughts. On security for room parties: Not necessary. The room parties originated in early Palm Spring Oasis' (kudos to Dr. Z as the originator) as a way for TC friends to celebrate each other, share their special recipes, and simply enjoy small enjoyable personable Ohana gatherings. In the past few years the room parties have evolved into massive room venues taking on a life of their own. Many current party throwers did not have the opportunity to attend the PS Oasis' so they really do not know the history or original intent. Current Suite parties are cool and I'm not criticizing, but the original intention of the room parties was something different I think. It's amazing now that there are so few incidents with the number of LARGE suite room parties (containing of a lot of people who do not know each other). I think it's a testament to the attendees and their dedication to keeping it good. The issue here I believe is that because of the massive nature of the parties, they are taking on strong word of mouth exposure, outside of the event. And it does create new challenges when outsiders (ie Marines or drunk surfers) are able to access the hotel and wander into the parties. Perhaps as a general rule, without a valid age appropriate attendee wristband (ie adult wristband & not the kid wristband), no admittance into the party. That solves it right there. AND if anyone sees someone wandering around at night without a wristband at all, call security immediately. Sadly I was in the elevator when the incident began. King douche bag, the guy in the red shirt, held the elevator for 30 seconds (the alarm you heard) rallying his drunk buddies in. Mark Schneider was so drunk he could barely stand. The guy in the white tiki shirt parroted whatever the red shirt douche bag said. Bottom line, they were belligerently drunk. The "surfers" were truly ugly loud abusive drunk idiots. Long story shorter, they are really not good drunks, were party crashers, and I hope they all have arrest records now. Wouldn't it be fun to send letters and surveillance videos to their frats, surf sponsors, and swim teams showing them this behavior? That might teach them a lesson. The other people in the elevator did not blame this on TO. They blamed it on the idiots and were/are thinking about pressing civil charges. But they were very appreciative of how TO attendees jumped in to support and help. For myself, I viewed these guys as ugly (in every way) drunk idiots, so didn't take it personally and moved on as quickly as possible. Afterward, I went to the next party and shook off this truly Rare ugly incident. I enjoyed this fantastic even in every way despite a couple of idiots. Viva la tiki! :wink: [ Edited by: coco loco 2011-09-03 09:18 ]

Couple of thoughts.

On security for room parties: Not necessary. The room parties originated in early Palm Spring Oasis' (kudos to Dr. Z as the originator) as a way for TC friends to celebrate each other, share their special recipes, and simply enjoy small enjoyable personable Ohana gatherings.

In the past few years the room parties have evolved into massive room venues taking on a life of their own. Many current party throwers did not have the opportunity to attend the PS Oasis' so they really do not know the history or original intent. Current Suite parties are cool and I'm not criticizing, but the original intention of the room parties was something different I think.

It's amazing now that there are so few incidents with the number of LARGE suite room parties (containing of a lot of people who do not know each other). I think it's a testament to the attendees and their dedication to keeping it good.

The issue here I believe is that because of the massive nature of the parties, they are taking on strong word of mouth exposure, outside of the event. And it does create new challenges when outsiders (ie Marines or drunk surfers) are able to access the hotel and wander into the parties. Perhaps as a general rule, without a valid age appropriate attendee wristband (ie adult wristband & not the kid wristband), no admittance into the party. That solves it right there.

AND if anyone sees someone wandering around at night without a wristband at all, call security immediately.

Sadly I was in the elevator when the incident began. King douche bag, the guy in the red shirt, held the elevator for 30 seconds (the alarm you heard) rallying his drunk buddies in. Mark Schneider was so drunk he could barely stand. The guy in the white tiki shirt parroted whatever the red shirt douche bag said.

Bottom line, they were belligerently drunk. The "surfers" were truly ugly loud abusive drunk idiots. Long story shorter, they are really not good drunks, were party crashers, and I hope they all have arrest records now. Wouldn't it be fun to send letters and surveillance videos to their frats, surf sponsors, and swim teams showing them this behavior? That might teach them a lesson.

The other people in the elevator did not blame this on TO. They blamed it on the idiots and were/are thinking about pressing civil charges. But they were very appreciative of how TO attendees jumped in to support and help.

For myself, I viewed these guys as ugly (in every way) drunk idiots, so didn't take it personally and moved on as quickly as possible.

Afterward, I went to the next party and shook off this truly Rare ugly incident. I enjoyed this fantastic even in every way despite a couple of idiots. Viva la tiki! :wink:

[ Edited by: coco loco 2011-09-03 09:18 ]

Post #605281 by Coco Loco on Fri, Sep 2, 2011 7:57 PM