terça-feira, 3 de setembro de 2013

wo fans suspected of overdosing on ecstasy died at this weekend’s Electric Zoo music festival on Randall’s Island, prompting organizers to cancel today’s shows - a move that outraged callous concert-goers despite the deaths. Recent Syracuse University grad Jeffrey Russ, 23, of Rochester, and Olivia Rotondo, 20, a University of New Hampshire student from North Providence, Rhode Island, both died after it appears they took the popular rave drug Ecstasy, also called “Molly,” law-enforcement sources said. Twitter Jeffrey Russ died of an overdose at Electric Zoo. Facebook Olivia Rotondo “She was a great kid. That’s all I can tell you pal. She was a great kid,” said Henry Rotundo, 73, of North Providence, Olivia’s heartbroken grandfather . Russ’ aunt, Patti Fanto-Holdaway, said she and other loved ones rushed to the city when they heard he had fallen ill. “We drove down in the middle of the night after we got the call that he was in the hospital,” Fanto-Holdaway said, her voice trembling. “We lost him before we got there because it took six hours.” Four other unidentified fans were hospitalized and listed in critical condition. They are believed to have also taken the drug. Ecstasy, the street name for the drug MDMA, is a stimulant and mild psychedelic in pure form - but is also mixed with other more dangerous drugs, a law enforcement source said. And sometimes bogus pills that contain no MDMA but other more harmful drugs - such as amphetamines or powerful tranquilizers - are sold as Ecstasy to unsuspecting buyers at concerts and parties. “Especially at concerts when people are buying from strangers, you have no way of knowing what the hell you’re putting down your throat,” the source said. The organizers, Made Event of Long Island City, extended their condolences to the families of the victims in a statement on their web site. “Because there is nothing more important to us than our patrons, we have decided in consultation with the New York City Parks Department that there will be no show today,” the statement said But some of the 200 or so fans who showed up at at Randall’s Island and others on social media were furious at the cancellation of today’s performances by German DJ Zedd , Laidback Luke, Armin Van Buuren, Steve Aoki and Sebastiona Ingrosso “If you cared about your patrons then you wouldn’t disappoint the tens of thousand RESPONSIBLE concert goers who LIVE for the music at these festivals. While my deepest condolences go out to the families of the lives that were lost yesterday, it does not mean that everyone else needs to suffer,” fumed David Eli on the event’s Facebook page Font: Nypost

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