People don't learn, do they?

[damont]

Some of you may remember the last Disclave, back in 1997, and The Incident that occurred at that hotel on the weekend of the convention.

A non-LJ friend pointed the following link out. If more of us remembered what happened at Disclave '97, maybe this wouldn't have happened: http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=d72a61f97240f346

He added the following comment: 'Say it with me now: "Hotel sprinkler heads are NOT load bearing..." '

(For those of you who don't know, a rundown of what happened in 1997 can be found in this report about Disclave '98 being canceled. For songs written about the incident, check out http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j97/6/index.htm as reported in dandelionreport's LJ a couple of years ago. I wasn't at that convention, but another friend of ours phoned us from the scene while The Incident was still taking place. That has a way of sticking in one's memory, y'know?)

Comments

[math5.livejournal.com]

I wasn't at that convention,
I gather that you deny causing it then

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

I had nothing to do with it at all, beyond hearing about it.

[page-of-swords.livejournal.com]

Someone did the same thing recently it was on the radio

It's another great day at the New Carrollton Ramada!

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Some friends were in the room directly opposite the morons at Discwave. Funny perspective on the story. ;) I remember yelling at my roommate to turn off that g-d alarm clock which was actually the fire alarm.

Re: It's another great day at the New Carrollton Ramada!

[montuos]

Our so-called friend who called us at oh-god-hundred that morning had been sitting in that hall, and got to watch the perpetrators leave their room, pursued by the wave...