What's upsetting you today?

[xoxoxoBruce]

What is this "journalism" you speak of, and what does it have to do with getting clicks and links for the station?
Clod's doing the bratty sister thing... Nyah nyah, I know something you don't know.

[Clodfobble]

It's my relative. Saying it was a "fight" indicates he's somehow partially at fault, which is not what went down. It was an unprovoked attack from an ex-employee who should not have been able to get onto the premises.

My relative is currently in an induced coma in the ICU with brain swelling from the severe head injury he suffered. At this point he is expected to be there for at least 7-14 more days, with no guarantee of what permanent damage may have been done until he wakes up and they can assess him.

I'm angry, and sad, and scared for my relative and his wife. I get that the park has to protect itself and not let guests think that they might be in danger from an employee, but it sucks that the PR-speak has to act like everyone's equally to blame.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The link calls it an "altercation" and an "incident", is the park saying something else?

[Clodfobble]

The park's official line to news outlets was an "incident" caused a closure of a large section of the park for half a day, and that incident was a "fight" between "contractors" working inside the park. I imagine the author of that particular article took out his thesaurus and substituted "altercation."

Regardless, what actually happened was not a brawl, it was a disgruntled employee who flipped the fuck out, marched in and stabbed my cousin in the back of the head with a pair of scissors. He would have injured others had he not been restrained.


I realize now that I was needlessly cryptic, I just didn't want to post things I wasn't supposed to. But details have been posted in other places now, so I guess it doesn't matter.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, but we're family, Miss Grumpypants.
I imagine both the reporter, and whoever was charged with the press release, didn't really know what happened and chose generic language. Both are in a position to get something out there fast. One to beat the competition with the earliest report even if it's incomplete, and the other to try and beat the rumor mill from spreading WW III or the Holocaust had started in the park.

[glatt]

I'm sorry Clodfobble. That's horrific. I hope he wakes up from the coma as the same person.

[Clodfobble]

He'd better. Dude's going to want to know that some 500+ artists across the country have donated to his medical care, and that he made national news.

[xoxoxoBruce]

500+ artists across the country have donated to his medical care

How?

[Clodfobble]

They made a GoFundMe page for him.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Thank you.

[Clodfobble]

The difficult thing (well, one of the difficult things) is that his dad, my dad's brother, lives in Austin. He's the one I've mentioned before with Parkinson's, and he's started slipping into dementia over the last 6-9 months. He just needs a little supervision and has a roommate who keeps things running smoothly for him for now, but we had to stop giving him updates on Glenn because he kept forgetting about it and every time we told him something new it was like we were breaking the news all over to him again.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Thank you.

No, thank you.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Who is Celestia N. Ward?

[Clodfobble]

An artist he used to work with in Vegas when he was working at the MGM Grand. I don't know her personally, but his wife said she does.

[DanaC]

God, what a horrible thing to happen. The artists' response is awesome.