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- From: rlb@access.digex.com (Richard L. Butler)
- Newsgroups: alt.fandom.cons
- Subject: Re: Balticon Info Needed
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 08:26:54 GMT
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- jsl@athena.mit.edu (J. Spencer Love) writes:
- >Fans have been *killed* at Balticons trying to cross that [Shawan] road.
- >Well,
- >I've seen ambulances there at least two years, but there's only one I'm
- >sure died.
-
- The only person who has actually been hit crossing the road survived and
- apparently suffered no long-term ill effects, although she was in serious
- condition. BSFS gave her a free membership to the next year's con (after
- all, she didn't get to see much of the one she paid to get into), which in
- fact I handed to her when she arrived to pick it up.
-
- One of the other ambulance episodes was possibly due to the young woman
- apparently who took too many (or the wrong kind of) recreational substances,
- and who was having what in layman's terms is called "a bad trip". The Night
- Ops people were particularly concerned about her, since they didn't know
- who she was (no badge or other ID), if she was actually ill (beyond being
- under the not-very-benign effects of and unknown number and mixture of
- chemicals), etc. The paramedics came and took her somewhere safer than
- women's room of the hotel.
-
- Which is beside the point. Like he said...
-
- >Take extreme care. Maybe drive. You're safer in traffic with a ton or
- >more of metal armor, or the evasive capabilities of a motorcycle. It's
- >a bit of a trek to the crosswalk, so there is a temptation to live
- >dangerously -- and on that road I wouldn't want to trust the traffic
- >light to stop the cars, anyway. They move pretty fast. You can park
- >near the hotel in a large but disused parking lot that belongs to an
- >office building (and thus it not much used on the weekends).
-
- If memory serves (it frequently doesn't, but hell...), Shawan Road is 5
- or 6 lanes wide between the HVM and the other hotels. Traffic routinely
- cruises up and down this section of highway at 50 to 60 miles an hour,
- and is moderately heavy, since the ramp down from 83 North empties onto
- Shawan less than a quarter-mile from the entrance to the HVM.
-
- As the people from BSFS would tell you, Please Be Careful. Use the
- crosswalk, or drive. Better yet, stay in the HVM. They'd love to have
- your company.
-
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