Alcohol At CN Centre Caused Trouble For RCMP On Busy Night

Saturday, February 25, 2006 06:47 AM

Prince George RCMP were kept hopping last night...with everything from drunks to paintball pranks.

Police say they were called to CN Centre twice during last night's Cougars' hockey game. The first call came around 8:30pm, after a group was asked by security to leave the building for suspected drinking. A few rowdy individuals then proceeded to bang on the exterior windows when they were refused re-entry. The group agreed to move on when RCMP officers arrived on-scene.

But police were called back an hour later after an intoxicated male, asked by security to leave, became combative.

Officers arrested the man and he was held in cells overnight, but will be released this morning without any charges.

Another intoxicated individual was arrested at a downtown motel just before 4am this morning. Police say the male will remain in cells until around noon, but he, too, will be released without charges.

The RCMP also attended a huge house party in College Heights just before 11pm last night. Police say there were more than 100 youth inside and milling around outside the residence in the area of Guelph Crescent and Gladstone Drive. Police talked to those at the party and they agreed to disperse.

But officers were called back after receiving more noise complaints around 1am. Some of the teens had returned and the homeowner was apparently having a hard time getting them to leave. One youth was lodged in cells for being intoxicated. The homeowner, meantime, had to go to the hospital after cutting her foot on broken glass inside the home.

Another woman was also hurt by glass. Police say just before 7pm last night, a female patron inside a pub on Queensway Street was injured by flying glass when a suspect threw something through the window, possibly a salt shaker.

The suspect is described as a caucasian male, wearing a dark carhardt jacket, black pants or dirty jeans, and a baseball cap. He's believed to be approximately six-feet tall, and around 25 years of age.

Officers are also looking for any information after two homes in the city were splattered with paintballs. One residence was in the 59-hundred block of Simon Fraser Avenue in College Heights, the other was on Range Road. The homeowner there says this is the third time his house has been hit in the last little while.
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Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 06:47 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: ontwin on February 25 2006 10:09 AM

This is one reason they should have declined to sell alcohol at the CN centre.The whole point of attending a concert,hockey game or whatever is to be entertained or love of the sport.To drink,become loud and obnoxious to others around you, to the point you are asked to leave a public outing,then to bang on the windows shows the judgement and social graces you were brought up with.Stay home and do the rest of us a favour.On a last note were you drinking and driving,preferably without a seat belt??

Posted by: Chadermando on February 25 2006 10:46 AM

RE: Multiplex drinking...

I think when they treat you like a kid you tend to act the part.

IMO they should have a section in the stand where a person can enjoy their drink in their seat rather than creating the circumstance for people to be discriminated against contributing to their bad behaviour.

Posted by: Gofaster on February 25 2006 12:25 PM

They were told this would happen before they issued the liquor licence. I think it is a money issue for the city.
I find it hard to believe that fans or spectators of what ever the function can not go a couple of hours with out a drink.
Then aain if it is that bad and it may have been, maybe a drink at home would be needed to stop the pain when your bang your head against the wall for going in the first place.

Posted by: SpeakingOut on February 27 2006 11:27 AM

It just goes to show what kind of fools we have making up the rules. They make it legal to drink at the CN Center but not in your seat where you can watch the event. Duh!? Wouldn't that be what a damn BAR/PUB is for?? You can't see the events from there either and don't we already have LOTS of THEM???

But wait, now we are going to spend, oh - how much was that again? on a big screen TV, maybe then the drinkers can see what's happening from the barroom and we only have to worry about them running into us when we are leaving the premises.

Posted by: SoftGel on February 27 2006 5:29 PM

The RCMP were called to the CN Centre at 8:30PM, one hour after the Cougar game began. I can't imagine anyone getting belligerent after drinking 6 dollar beer for an hour. These people were clearly intoxicated before attending the game. I haven't seen proof from any of you that it was CN Centre alcohol that caused the problem.

I go to a lot of Cougar games, and am 100% for the sale of alcohol in the building, however; I won't likely ever buy a beer at a WHL game.

Posted by: johnnybgood on February 27 2006 8:37 PM

I was sitting next to the section where the young people that were evicted for alcohol abuse. These fans were there to cheer for the Vancouver Giants and right from the get-go you could tell that they had too much to drink (before the game even started). Another strange thing was the size of the ladies hand-bags, they were very large. I'm not saying that they were the ones that carried the booze into the seats, but somehow a lot of beer bottles and cans were littering the stands and the patrons kept getting louder and more vulgar. For the most part they were content by heckling the players(Cougars) and referees but they also were turning their attention to the fans around them and giving menacing and obscene getures as well as the more than frequent profanity. It was a situation that could have easily gotten out of control had it not been for the security at the Center. When they (security) confronted the drinkers and asked them to leave they also were faced with the task with removing arm-loads of empties and a lot of unopened beer cans and bottles. These drinks were not bought at the beer garden at the CN Center but were smuggled in, how is a mystery but it would have taken something like a large tote. I think that is unfair to blame the liquor sales at the Multiplex for this isolated incident and I would like to say that I enjoy going down to the beer gardens for the occasional beer at intermission time. I don't use the facilities all the time but when a couple of friends want to go for a beer it is quite a privelege. I hope that these people haven't spoilled this privelege for future seasons.