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Police investigating theft during Rolling Loud Festival brawl
Original post made on Oct 26, 2017
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, October 26, 2017, 9:38 AM
Comments (13)
a resident of Martens-Carmelita
on Oct 26, 2017 at 11:13 am
The Rolling Loud Festival was outlandishly loud. I was inside with the windows closed and was going to tell my neighbor to turn down the music. Then I figured out that the music was coming from the other side of town. Im on the other side of El Camino so it must have been crazy loud in Rex Manor.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Oct 26, 2017 at 1:23 pm
It was Lil B. Not a fan of his rapping but he seems like a genuine dude. Video shows 8-10 beating on 1. Pretty weak moves.
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Oct 26, 2017 at 2:02 pm
"black man in his mid-20s, of medium height with a skinny build"
I saw him! I totally saw this guy at the rap show!
a resident of Rex Manor
on Oct 26, 2017 at 3:36 pm
Rolling Loud you are absolutely right! I live in Rex Manor and the noise this summer/fall from Shoreline Amphitheater has been out of control. I was in bed one evening, 11pm with my double pane windows and sliders closed and I could hear a concert loud and clear. It has gotten worse this year. I suspect maybe all the tree removal along Shoreline Blvd has caused some of this? I can't imagine being at the concert with it so loud. I am not a party pooper but geesh people! We have decided next time we will just start filing noise complaints each time with the Mountain View police.
a resident of Sylvan Park
on Oct 26, 2017 at 6:13 pm
MyOpinion is a registered user.
Shoreline attracts an undesirable element, shut it down and build a nice hotel in that spot overlooking the golf course.
a resident of Rengstorff Park
on Oct 26, 2017 at 7:07 pm
Juan is a registered user.
The Shoreline Amphitheater brings nothing to the city but crime, drugs, noise and mayhem. It should be SHUT DOWN and the parking lot should be designated for RV parking.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Oct 27, 2017 at 3:02 pm
Wow, this took a turn. Can I vote for not getting rid of Shoreline? Where was all this outrage when the country shows lead to a huge amount of arrests? I think I know the answer.
a resident of Rengstorff Park
on Oct 27, 2017 at 5:28 pm
Juan is a registered user.
Bruno, I don't know what you're trying to imply, but I have advocated that the Amphitheater be shutdown for years, and country shows are some of the worst offenders. The only time I have seen a Confederate flag flown in Mountain View / Palo Alto was from the window of a pickup truck headed north on Rengstorff, on the way to a country concert. Almost without exception, these events hold no value to the citizens of Mountain View. SHUT IT DOWN.
a resident of North Whisman
on Oct 27, 2017 at 5:50 pm
@MyOpinion and @Juan,
You are of course entitled to your opinions, but please try and avoid such over-generalization. I have been to many concerts over the years at Shoreline, and many more since I moved to MV in 2013, including most of the Bridge concerts, many Dead/Dead & Friends concerts, and many others, in which the crowd was very well-behaved, with no fights or problems. Yes, some country music or heavy metal of rap concerts might sometimes attract a crowd with 99% respectful attendees and 1% problematic attendees, and the occasional attendee who is so clueless as to have a confederate flag on his pick-up (not to be a jerk, but probably more likely at a country music rather than a rap or hip-hop concert), but your statements that "Shoreline attracts an undesirable element" and "The Shoreline Amphitheater brings nothing to the city but crime, drugs, noise and mayhem" are CLEARLY over-generalized, over the top, and factually incorrect.
I get that folks in Rex Manor are bearing the brunt, and some dislike this venue. But you can make your arguments without going all Trump-like and exaggerating that th sky is falling. Just sayin'......
a resident of another community
on Oct 29, 2017 at 3:30 pm
The venue is not the problem.
Different events at Shoreline Amphitheatre attract different demographics.
Not all events attract an unsavory, criminal crowd. The annual SF Symphony concert on Independence Day does not have a crime problem.
Perhaps the City of Mountain View should enforce that Shoreline Amphitheatre only hold classical concerts. That would eliminate most of the public disturbances and violence at this venue.
You don't read of fistfights or drug arrests at Louise M. Davies Hall.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Oct 31, 2017 at 12:11 pm
Yes, classical concerts nowadays mostly run pretty tame -- especially when the music is familiar, hackneyed, safe, as apparently it must be to draw ticket sales.
Not always though. When it first appeared, "Tristan und Isolde" shocked people with its frank sensuality. And fistfights did break out in the audience, at the premiere of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring."
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Oct 31, 2017 at 8:37 pm
The good news is that guns are not allowed at the concerts there. That cuts down on the the violence, unlike the shooting that just occurred at a 7-11 in MV. [Portion removed -- off-topic]
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Nov 1, 2017 at 8:45 pm
It’s easy enough to go to a local gunshop and load up on weapons. Background check is a joke. Let’s keep Shoreline and get rid of the real bad businesses!
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