There are literally hundreds of park security here tonight at KD, park police and a large number of local police as well. Pretty impressive considering the State Fair is next door and i’m sure also requires a large presence. Park is packed, more so than i’ve seen in quite a few years on opening night yet the crowd is quite relaxed.
Honestly the latest group seemed like they were all willing participants so victimless crime I guess.
But the reality is how they handle the incident. If they can detain the actors either at the time of the incident or at the park exit and they follow up with charges or bans or if they basically take the BGW approach of letting them go and then having the JCC police go to the media days later to act like they are trying to track down the subjects. I can tell youthis just from what I have seen at the parks the past two weekends is BGW security and the hired cops is they are roaming the park talking amongst themselves enjoying the night and easy overtime where as at KD they were mostly stationary watching and I even saw at times they would be following groups that were acting up.
There is nothing less intimidating than BGW "security".
Copycat actors will most liekly happen...and when theres blood in the water there will be a frenzy. Busch cant even staff parking trams but what they need right now is some of those elevated security towers in each lot with the ability to have effective teams of people to stop any actuvity quickly. Calling 911 and waiting for JCC police to get there to be the first line of defense isnt the answer.
This is a case in point about why you can’t run that large an operation at such a cheap price point. Not enough revenue for bolstering security and the bad incidents scare away all your high value customers. Much better to operate at higher price points and sacrifice volume, but drive repeat business and loyalty.
Thing is BGW is operating at a fairly high price point for what it charges for memberships. The past few months have been a prime example, we are still paying the high prices but things arent open, no Josephones, no parking trams....so on and so on. The biggent problem is the cheap tickets they sell and deals they keep running. Cut them out and let everyone pay the same to get in. It may hurt for a year or so because people will say they arent paying those high prices or they think they will hold out for a deal but once people realize they have to pay to play things will get better.
It depends if the troublemakers at BGW are buying daily tickets or getting fun cards and memberships. The issue at SFA is you can get a membership or season pass for $60-70/year, which is very little, so you have teens using the place as a cheap hang out similar to the mall.
Finally BGW is cracking down on crime
Things should go back to normal now.
To Busch's defense I got one of those last Thursday so before Haunt opened
