Instead holding the rich promoters responsible let's dump another one the oppressed County taxpayers? Some of you need to talk to homeowners around this "festival" or slammed ER workers. This is not an appropriate site. Appropriate time. place and manner restrictions-eh Cicero?
Well, with all the gunshot victims Schenectady has sent over to Albany Med in the past, 12 Bisco people admitted to Ellis doesn't really seem all that bad.
Benny - When you think about the economic impact of 20,000 people that come to the area for the festival...and we're not just talking to the campground...it's a goddamn windfall for businesses. Yes, Mariaville and its infrastructure was not designed to handle that many people. Potter has designed his compound to make it liveable for a weekend, and thus the area gets to benefit from most of what Bisco brings and takes with it once it leaves. This means ice sales at the local Stewarts or the Mariaville Country Store. This means gas sales at any service station in a 10-mile radius. This means every rentable bed within the town and many outside its borders. This means the town AND county in terms of tickets...they issued a lot of them to the campers as they came in...100 tickets can mean $10,000 revenue for the town ALONE, and if you're a d-burg taxpayer, that's a lot of money. NTM, Potter hires local businesses to service the camp site. Think about the private sanitation workers brought in clean the porta-johns...the company hired to haul potable water in...the company hired to haul away trash. Then think of the vendors on site. Hell, I notice the Bad Pig had a shop set up there this year...noticed a lot of other LOCAL restaurants selling food to the hippies. Also...and I don't think this was mentioned anywhere in the coverage...the Bisco kids actually help raise supplies for the local food pantry. It's this thing they do called 'color wars' that sets up a local pantry for months.
Bisco might not be a perfect fit for Mariaville, but I'll be damned if it doesn't give that community a giant economic boost. I'm sorry, but when it comes to four or five days of mayhem out of the year and seeing businesses literally making the money they need to get by, I'll take the latter every time and let the 100 or so residents who live peacefully out there for the other 360 days of the year deal with it.
Benny - When you think about the economic impact of 20,000 people that come to the area for the festival...and we're not just talking to the campground...it's a goddamn windfall for businesses. Yes, Mariaville and its infrastructure was not designed to handle that many people. Potter has designed his compound to make it liveable for a weekend, and thus the area gets to benefit from most of what Bisco brings and takes with it once it leaves. This means ice sales at the local Stewarts or the Mariaville Country Store. This means gas sales at any service station in a 10-mile radius. This means every rentable bed within the town and many outside its borders. This means the town AND county in terms of tickets...they issued a lot of them to the campers as they came in...100 tickets can mean $10,000 revenue for the town ALONE, and if you're a d-burg taxpayer, that's a lot of money. NTM, Potter hires local businesses to service the camp site. Think about the private sanitation workers brought in clean the porta-johns...the company hired to haul potable water in...the company hired to haul away trash. Then think of the vendors on site. Hell, I notice the Bad Pig had a shop set up there this year...noticed a lot of other LOCAL restaurants selling food to the hippies. Also...and I don't think this was mentioned anywhere in the coverage...the Bisco kids actually help raise supplies for the local food pantry. It's this thing they do called 'color wars' that sets up a local pantry for months.
Bisco might not be a perfect fit for Mariaville, but I'll be damned if it doesn't give that community a giant economic boost. I'm sorry, but when it comes to four or five days of mayhem out of the year and seeing businesses literally making the money they need to get by, I'll take the latter every time and let the 100 or so residents who live peacefully out there for the other 360 days of the year deal with it.
The area around where Camp Bisco can sure use any influx of money they can get. The number of people who sought medical care was pretty small when compared to the number of people who attended the event. The event may not have been perfect but it wasn't all that bad either.
Instead holding the rich promoters responsible let's dump another one the oppressed County taxpayers? Some of you need to talk to homeowners around this "festival" or slammed ER workers. This is not an appropriate site. Appropriate time. place and manner restrictions-eh Cicero?
Like I've always said, the neo-cons like Benny who claim to be for individualism and freedom, do not want freedom and less intrusive government, they want the control of government so THEY can dictate.
Who makes the determination of appropriate site, appropriate time - YOU eh Benny?
If it was the Sean Hannity "Freedom Concert" with Lee Greenwood being held at Indian Lookout, Benny would have NO PROBLEM.
Like I've always said, the neo-cons like Benny who claim to be for individualism and freedom, do not want freedom and less intrusive government, they want the control of government so THEY can dictate.
Who makes the determination of appropriate site, appropriate time - YOU eh Benny?
If it was the Sean Hannity "Freedom Concert" with Lee Greenwood being held at Indian Lookout, Benny would have NO PROBLEM.
wow!!! so sean's a concert promoter now..........................I guess "Rushstock" and "O'reillyaroo" can't be far behind.........
Rochester duo face drug charges after Camp Bisco Updated 12:27 p.m., Monday, July 16, 2012
DUANESBURG - A 24-year-old man from Rochester and the driver of a car he was riding in face felony drug charges after, State Police said, they found cocaine and several other drugs in his car as he left the Camp Bisco concert festival on Friday.
Joshua R. Dangler was acting erratically and appeared to be under the influence of an unknown substance when troopers said they spotted him at about 1 a.m.
Troopers stopped Tisha A. Brice's car on Batter Street. Inside the car, police said they found six ounces of cocaine, hallucinogenic mushrooms, MDMA, and marijuana.
As a counter to the other topic we have on here: Nothing BAD ever gets reported in the People's Gazette, right Boxy? Maybe we need a place to keep all the Schenectady bad news from the Gazette separate? Might not fill up too quick, unless people start yelling at each other there, too.
Nothing BAD ever gets reported in the People's Gazette, right Boxy?
Maybe we need a place to keep all the Schenectady bad news from the Gazette separate? Might not fill up too quick, unless people start yelling at each other there, too.
"Nothing BAD ever gets reported in the People's Gazette, right Boxy?"
I never posted that... you must have it wrong again. IMO the Gazette posts both good & bad about the Schdy... just like the TU.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Well, as long as the Gazette editor gets the thumbs up from the local political party, the story can run.
TU editors have backbones.
Either way... it's not my issue. I have no problem with either paper and think that both do a reasonably good job of reporting the news.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Instead holding the rich promoters responsible let's dump another one the oppressed County taxpayers? Some of you need to talk to homeowners around this "festival" or slammed ER workers. This is not an appropriate site. Appropriate time. place and manner restrictions-eh Cicero? 
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