Its unfortunately fairly common on the UK Garage scene, to the point where in London loads of nights are stopped on the orders of Scotland Yard (they have even used CJA powers against legal events) for “safety reasons”

This time last year it happened down the road from me in Zest nightclub, place got an immediate closure order, permanently closed with 50 jobs and a major dance music venue in East Anglia permanently lost…

It does seem more shocking when a different genre of music is involved but TBH I think it could happen anywhere at any large gathering where there is a macho culture and young men routinely carry guns.

found another copy here

[yt]5pDJu2RNaCg[/yt]

Unless its the law in their country the video should not be broadcast whilst an active investigation is under way (in which case then their authorities should contact youtube) I don’t think this sort of thing should be hidden..

(Edit: apparently the first version got removed as someone flagged it as “too violent” for youtube)

I’ve since sussed out Caracas is in Venezuela (I thought initially it was in the Balearic Islands!) but I don’t think people can say “its just a Third World Country” or “its deprived”.

this could happen (has happened) in a club in London, Manchester or Reading…

its a big shame too as Mr Chavez is probably only just experimenting with allowing the youth of his nation freedom of expression to have stuff like raves and now his government will think they are a crime risk…

yep. it was apparently a targeted gang attack, the worst part of it is that rounds discharged at close range like that will hit lots of innocent people as well.

Bullets also have a habit of “overpenetrating” where they go through one person or even a solid object and then go on to injure or even kill a second.. This happened at a London (UK Garage) party on one New Years Eve (around 2002/2003 I think). The promoter actually shot a DJ because of perceived “disrespect!” :you_crazy He was using a Soviet pistol chambered for AK47 rifle rounds which are extremely powerful for their size. The round killed the DJ, went straight through a solid wall and killed some innocent chap the other side of the wall.

The promoter got 20 years inside (10 for each person)

definitly, I feel quite sorry for old Coxy, as that sort of thing will stay in his mind for years.

On a far lesser scale when I was more into going to London squat parties I was seeing a lot of claret spilt due to fights, robberies etc and this sort of shit was proper fucking with my head for a while (was getting nightmared and everything).

I suspect the only reason London squat parties don’t get shot up is that guns and bullets are expensive here in England as well as illegal and not that easy to get… its not really worth gangsters bothering with shooting people for a second-hand mobile or ketamine when they can just rifle k-heads pockets.

There have been guns brandished at London parties though but most are just replicas. There is always usually a “Trojan” (armed) police unit waiting to deal with any London squat parties if things get really ugly (I’ve seen them lurking in the background even at raves done by the safer London crews)

if it hadn’t been coxy playing it probably wouldn’t have made the news, particularly as it happened in a foreign country where there was a riot the same weekend.. although it is now all across the world media

Actually you get an incident like this every weekend in London on the UK garage/RNB club scene but it often only makes the local papers..