Posted on 07/31/2014 4:02:08 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A teenage girl was raped at the same Keith Urban show where 20 people got so drunk they were hospitalized, police said. The attack happened in front of a large crowd of other concertgoers on the lawn of the Xfinity Center, an outdoor amphitheater in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday night, a police statement said.
The rape ended when a woman in the crowd pushed the alleged attacker off the victim and he fled, police said.
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No kidding. After seeing this story posted for the Nth time, I went and looked up who the hell Keith Urban is. “Country” eh? I bet he’s never sung about trains, drinkin’, or good wimmen gone bad...
No it’s his brother Keith Suburban who sings about those topics.
Pulling a train.
“The phenomenon is not new or recent.”
Happened at Max Yasgur’s farm as well.
Some folks here on FR seem to think “sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll” is a recent phenomenon....
No kidding
I’m going to respectfully disagree that ALL concerts are as you describe. I went to a Willie Nelson & Others Concert less than a year ago here in Bee Cave Texas, just 15 miles west of Austin. Willie’s home is just a few miles away and it was his birthday.
Now, I’m not going to suggest the concert was clean as a pin but I saw no fights, no beer cans in the toilets and everybody without exception that I could see was polite as they could be to fellow concert goers. LOL, there indeed WAS the strong odor of marijuana on the evening breeze.
As far as some woman getting raped is concerned, I guarantee you that any woman getting raped would have resulted in 100 “pairs” of boots upside the perpetrators head, into his stomach and in the groin area within seconds! The guy literally would have been lucky to make it out alive!
So, I really think it has more to do with the geographic area than a nationwide thing. Just my opinion.
witnesses/depraved culture: “Who are we to judge?”
country hasn’t been country in a while
That’s what I was going to ask.
Jody Foster starred in the movie - I thought it was Massachusetts where it happened, and you have confirmed it.
Yeah, but it happened at a concert so was it really rape rape?
That guy’s music is depressing and boring.
Sorry for the girl.
Like Larry Holmes brother, Mobile Homes, who was in construction?
After he put on weight they called him Double Wide.
The things people do when they think G-d isn’t looking.
Doh!
But that was at the time that the Mayflower landed.
In Boston, seen for years as a place where country was not popular, the sole country station WKLB 102.5 slowly got higher ratings till it was in the top 3. Owned by Greater Media. Recently Clear Channel figured they could tap into the country market so they flipped their own WEDX 101.7 from elec dance music to country as WBWL 101.7 The Bull. Hot new country. Both stations are not necessarily courting Bubbas in their 40s and 50s. Actually the core audience is now 17 to 28 and mostly female who love the “bro” performers, male singers.
They say country is the new top 40 with this younger audience, and they quickly sell out shows (Kenny Chesney at Gillette Stadium). Turns out many of these “fans” are primarily there to party, often showing up half-drunk to begin with and the music is secondary, The Keith Urban show (he’s actually from Australia, mate) had many arrested for drunk and disorderly and more than a few were not a legal age and you have this.
It’s a culture of getting smashed at concerts (ironically enough the previous format of 101.7, elec dance music, had many people of the same age taking the drug “molly” and winding up leaving EDM shows in ambulances or even dying).
Again younger people listening to today’s country, with vocoder vocals, rap, etc. Both of these Boston country stations are indeed going after the young audience—who’s playing? Who cares, let’s party! Yeah, it’s nothing new, just as years ago people our age (I’m 52) would get drunk or stoned as we attended rock shows...
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