From: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (gogo is insane)
Subject: MEDIA:  Colorado TV-News Segment on CO Raves
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 22:30:37 GMT

 
KUSA CHANNEL 9 [ABC] REPORT ON RAVES (July 1992)
 
WARD LUCAS:  Summer parties are very popular, but this summer a different sort
of party is hitting our area.  They're called rave parties, very big among
teenagers.  But rave parties have developed a bad reputation in Los Angeles
because of drug abuse.  Our I-team [Investigative-team {read A Current Affair}
- well know for getting loval government officials fired, cuz they sneak around
'n' follow 'em wherever they go] recently went undercover to see how Colorado
rave partoes compare to thos in California.
 
        Jump to a bunch of kids standing outside a warehouse in LoDo, near
        23 Parrish.  Music playing in background is Anasthasia.  Voiceover.
        Crowd is kinda trend-e, as this was before the sacene caught on here
        in a big, open way.
 
WL:  Rave parties are making waves in Denver.  Over the past few months,
thousands of high-school and college-aged kids have flocked to rave parties
across the Front Range.  They pay approximately $7 a ticket to part in the
so-called "happening event" of the 90's.  They gather in warehouses in run-down
locations, in secluded locations, and are greeted by loud, thumping, electronic
music, dramatic lights, and dancing.
 
        Jump to shot if inside warehouse.  I think this is either Sound of
Music or maybe Microrave.  Music still Anasthasia.
 
WL:  Rave organizers usually rent abandoned warehouses for the night of
partying, but every weekend they change the location.  The kids learn of the
rave parties from slick advertising flyers distributed around the area.
 
        Jump to shot of Poor Boy flyers:  Colossus, X-terminator, etc.
        Jump to shot of phone.
 
WL:  The flyers give the phone number of a recorded message.
 
        In background, the familiar Poor Boy RaveLine guy can be heard
[303.575.1099].
 
WL:  Rave parties started in england and made their way to Los Angeles.
They're often associated with drg dealing.  A popular drug at many of the
raves is something called Ecstacy, or X.
 
        Jump to demonstrative shot of a big X.  [Whoop-e, scare me, Ward.]
 
WL:  Another is nitrous oxide, or laughing gas.  The two provide a cheap, but
dangerous high.
 
        Jump to shot of outside warehouse.
 
WL:  OUr 9News I-team went undercover at several recent rave parties.  At every
one, we heard people talking about selling either nitrous or ecstacy.
 
        Jump to shot of some lasers.  Voice in background is subtitled.
 
X-MAN:  If you still want to X out....if that's what you're interested in right
now.
 
WL (voiceover):  At a different rave party, one raver offered acid, or LSD, and
ecstacy to our undercover team.
 
        Another unplaceable rave, shot of ceiling.
 
NARC-MAN:  Acid and ecstacy....how much you selling that for?
 
X-MAN //:  $20 a hit.
 
NARC-WOMAN:  Powder?
 
X-MAN //:  POwder yeah.
 
        Jump cut to a doctor.
 
WL (voiceover):  Dr. Niel Rosenberg told us that ecstacy is an amphetamine that
has similar effects as cocaine.
 
DR. N.R. (neurologist):  ...So amphetamines have been linked with really
permanent brain damage.  It can produce strokes, brain hemorages....
 
        Demonstrative shot of X.  voiceover.
 
WL:  Dr. Rosenberg says ecstacy is a designer drug, not tested in laboratories.
When you take it, you really don't know what you're getting.  Nitrous oxide, or
laughing gas, is also popular, but when inhaled it has its own dangerous side
effects.
 
 
        Jump to yet another fuzzy, unplaceable rave shot.
 
WL: Our undercover I-team ran into a raver that claimed to be a drug dealer
from Los Angeles.  He was a little cautious about bringing out his supply of
nitrous.  He said he was well aware of recent deaths from inhalants in L.A.,
but he told us he would supply us at the next rave party.
 
N-MAN:  Nitrous is not...Well, it's here, but...I'm really scared to bring it
out because so many people have, like, died.  [Like, ya know, like?]  We're
gonna be real cautious for awhile.  We can get hooked up at the next rave, yes.
 
        Jump to shot of a whippit and ambulance..  voiceover.
 
WL:  Inhaling nitrous can be dangerous, or deadly.  Two months ago in
California, police found the bodies of two teeens who died, after inhaling
nitrous.
 
        Jump to Dr. R.
 
DR. N. R.:  If you hget a high enough dose, being a general anaesthetic, it'll
depress your respiration and you'll stop breathing and you'll die.
 
        Jump to shot of reporter and Poor Boys.  Go in background.
 
WL (voiceover):  We talked with local rave organizers at a warehouse in
Boulder.  They say they're going to make the Colorado rave scene different from
that of Los Angeles.
 
MIKE JOHNSON (Poor Boy):  The rave scene here is definitely very different.
It's a lot cleaner and it's a lot safer.
 
JULIAN BRADLEY (Poor Boy):  [the one on the raveline]  We promote on our flyers
that it should be drug free, that's the way it should be.
 
        Jump to another warehouse shot.
 
WL:  Again, experts at the National Institute of Inhalant Abuse say trying
nitrous or ecstacy is just not worth the thrill since it can be deadly.  There
have been a number of people who've died from inhalants.
 
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