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Rhode Island Comic Con Oversold, Overcrowded
New submitter RobertJ1729 writes The Rhode Island Comic Con (RICC) is in the middle of a complete meltdown as hundreds are turned away at the door or denied reentry due to the event organizers selling far more tickets than the venue can accomodate. The Providence Journal reports that "According to Providence Fire Chief David Soscia, too many people were being let in at a time and the organizers were not correctly counting them. That led to over-congested areas in the building which has a maximum capacity of 17,000 people." Meanwhile the Rhode Island Comic Con Facebook page is being flooded with comments from angry attendees describing chaos both inside and out of the convention center. RICC initially posted, "Hello RICC fans! WE ARE NOT OVERSOLD!," and promised to honor tomorrow tickets sold for today. That post generated several hundred angry comments before eventually being deleted (though it survives in part on RICC's twitter feed). Commenters are alleging that RICC is deleting negative Facebook comments. Users are tweeting at #ricomicconfail2014 to vent their frustration.
Seriously, I've just given up trying to go to events. If it's advertised and doesn't have a huge entrance fee and/or absurdly niche audience it will be a madhouse.
Like those rave parties, when one had to bring a blue sock to a specific parking attendant to get the address of the convenience store behind which a midget dressed like Mickey Mouse sold a map to the event that could only be seen under uv light.
lucm, indeed.
Rhode Island is tiny.
Next time maybe they'll have it in a larger state.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Seriously? You're seriously going to try emotional manipulation on Slashdot? You're a particularly stupid troll, aren't you? Fuck off and go troll Facebook, you cretin.
It would appear that trolling works on you...