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The drinking culture at big state schools is out of control.  It’s a shit show every weekend.  Frats are the worst.
UPDATE: Reggie's bar has liquor license suspended after death of Madison Brooks >

They'll be back. It's not their first rodeo. They will pay some fines and follow so newly imposed rules but nothing fundamentally will change. >

Normally I'd agree with you (I'm familiar with Reggie's and its history) but this is high profile enough that I don't know if they can recover. >

Their owners need to be dragged into court as well. >

I would be happy with seeing them lose their liquor license here permanently and forcing them to go bankrupt. >

What sane girl will want to go into that rape/murder den now? >

Sadly it’s not the first incident at Reggie’s and still maintains its popularity >

They survived the “Reggin’ at Reggie’s” hand stamps. >

Her poor parents.  I don’t know if I could live knowing my child died in such a way, or anyway actually, but this is horrific. >

Totally agree. They are victims here too. If it were my daughter, my current life would effectively be over. The only thing that would keep me from offing myself is my other kid. >

I'd have to take the rapists with me. >

Why don't we hear about more vengeance from broken parents? I know how I'd spend my free time
edit in case I sound like some r/iamverybadass dbag:
I have no idea what it must feel like to go through what these parents go through. I'm just saying, I'm shocked you don't hear about them losing their shit and getting revenge. I just picture them having all the time in the world and devolving and spiraling. Like where would you go from there? >

I have to imagine because the bloodlust people have in hypotheticals is pretty hard to act on when you have so many other things to concern yourself with after losing a child. >

Well that and if they have another child….  I wouldn’t give a fuck though.  Sometimes there truly is a time to kill. >

yeah, I mentioned that in another comment - if I had the one child and lost them, I'd probably commit suicide. I just can't visualize waking up in that life every day after that
edit: hahaha "a time to kill" - isn't that a steven segal movie? >

A Time to Kill, is indeed a movie but rather it stars Matthew McConaughey. It pretty much deals with the legal case after a man murders the rapists of his 10 year old daughter.
The poster you replied to likely intended the reference. >

Jesus that’s a horrible story >

Not a lawyer but I don't know why these kids aren't getting hit with some kind of homicide or manslaughter charge also. Dropping someone in the middle of the road who is borderline comatose sounds like negligent homicide to me. The whole story is so horrific. >

I know they've said they don't plan to charge the rapists with any other crimes related to her death, but there's a chance they're waiting for one of them to give testimony that implicates the position/condition she was left in. >

Yeah, I’m the furthest thing from an expert of the law, and certainly not in Louisiana’s specifically, but I feel I’ve definitely seen people get felony murder charges for a lot less (in terms of directly causing one’s death). 
Assaulting a girl and then dumping her on the road that drunk, don’t think you could try any harder to indirectly kill someone. >

They may even try to pin kidnapping on them if she was too drunk to consent to anything. And I have to imagine dropping somebody off somewhere is part of that act. >

.319 and the lawyer said she was able to consent? I disagree >

Also the .319 BAC was taken an hour after she stopped drinking. She was even drunker than that when she was with these horrible people. >

Actually not necessarily.  While she was most certainly drunk, your BAC continues to rise for the first hour after your last drink as your bodies digests the alcohol.  (But at .319 she was still definitely hammered earlier) >

Poor kid. What a terrible way to go. Rip. >

I can’t imagine how the parents feel, that’s a helluva heartbreaking phone call to receive >

Then to learn that her last moments alive were a brutal gang rape. 
I don’t know how I could possibly go on after that. 
It’s just too much. >

I know it is terrible to say but I hope with her BAC being that high she wasn’t aware of what was really going on.  I honestly hope she was not conscious for those last terrible hours of her life.  Poor girl. 
How the hell were people as young as 17 at a bar drinking.  How could her friends leave her, how could other people at the bar fail to see how drunk she was and let her leave with four random guys.  So many people let her down. >

How could the rapists parents raise boys who thought that was ok.   
It’s not like she got attacked by wolves when she was out late in the woods—   Her rapists were people just like the people at the bar.  Which parents raised their sons to be  monsters? >

Man raising a boy. This is in the forefront of everything I do parenting. >

As a man raising 2 girls, thank you. >

I don't know where to put this comment, I guess. But here I go. I went to Homecoming with a dude my Sophomore year of HS. I was new to the school as usual (as an Army brat), and didn't know hardly anyone when homecoming rolled around. He was a kid in my Spanish class. Quiet....but just seemed shy to me at first. 
It was until the "date" happened that I got the creepy vibes from him. The way he looked at me was just....off. I don't even remember what he said, but he made comments that made me very uncomfortable. I was so relieved when the night was over. I avoided him after that. 
This kid was Nicholas Holbert. He went on to murder a young female soldier in Fayetteville NC a few years later.
Edit to add.... I would also go on to become friends with Chris Watts for the next two years at that school. Ugh. >

Did they catch the driver who hit her or was it a hit and run? >

It wasn’t a hit-and-run. They knew the driver right away. He wasn’t intoxicated and he was driving a rideshare. That strip of road that he was driving on is so dark and has zero street lights. It is sad to say, but it doesn’t surprise me that he didn’t see her until it was too late. >

It wasn't clear in the article but I wonder if they had dumped her in the middle of the road, would make sense someone would have a hard time seeing someone like that >

The article said they weren’t planning on charging them with her death, so it’s safe to guess they didn’t leave her in the road >

Or they can't prove it in any way, and they didn't provide any testimony (yet) to offer evidence against themselves. >

She left the bar in a car with 4 guys.  2 in front and 2 in the back.
The driver of the car stated that one of the 2 guys in back started having sex with her and he told them to stop, then after the rape finished (its not clear if one or both guys in the back had sex with her) they followed the girls directions to her home but she couldnt find it so they dropped her off as close as they could.
Thats the only testimony released so far from the driver of the rape car, not the uber that hit her.
Edit: Added a bit of context. >

Vile human beings. She couldn’t find her home so they just left her? >

I'm guessing she was unconscious because she had alcohol poisoning. They probably didn't want her to die in their car, so they dumped her in the road. I believe there is more malice to this story than is being let on. >

Yeah just raped someone but still thinking about doing the right thing. >

That Reggie’s place needs to be immediately shut down, too.  Letting anyone get to a 0.319 BAC, let alone a 19 year old… >

It's known as the freshman bar where they can go to get fucked up. As long as you are 18 you can get in. It is the shittiest bar in Tigerland and always has been. It was actually shut down a few years ago because of an underage drinking sting.
Tigerland is just an awful place in general. Frequent murders and shootings. Kidnappings are not uncommon and LSU students just can't stay away from it. Good things don't happen in Tigerland >

It really is a blight on the community and I used to go there all the time. Dumb and young. I have seen some of the worst fights I have ever seen in my life at Reggie’s and I grew up in New Orleans going out. I watched a dude get straight stabbed in the parking lot as a freshman. >

I knew a guy who tried to calm a fight there. He ended having literally all of his teeth kicked out and his skull and jaw fractured. Had to have loads of reconstructive surgery. >

Yeah, man unfortunately it’s pretty common place. I think many ppl would be surprised if they walked by there at 12:30/1am. Most parents would be Fucking appalled lol. It’s dystopian and disturbing now that I have grown up and looked back. >

I'm just glad I was too nerdy to even consider it an option. I brewed my own until I was 21 and then spent my nights at the cove until I skipped town.
If the choice is between chugging natty in rapemurder alley or quietly sipping a stout with my fellow pirates, well... The choice always seemed obvious. >

This is the problem with zero tolerance drinking laws and having the highest drinking age in the world.
Only a fool thinks that makes the kids go "oh ok I guess I won't drink til I'm 21 now."  
What it actually does it drive it underground and to the seediest parts of town where you are more likely to encounter serious problems if you drink too much. >

Except this place ain't really underground, minutes away from campus and well known for serving minors...... It's almost as if the government agency in charge of regulating the liquor license is failing. >

Louisiana had to be dragged kicking and screaming into raising their drinking age to 21. They were denied Federal highway funds for years. Makes sense that their enforcement would be lax >

I’m from a town with a notorious party school. There are so many bars down town, like SO many. I was a bartender from ~2004-2010. We had many crazy nights, especially after football games. What we didn’t have was tons of underage drinking in those bars. It is my best guess that prevention was due to local business codes and a very active police force. Police would often come in plainclothes with an underage guest and try to coerce you into serving the person with the fake ID or no ID. It happened to me more than once and the cop was always really pushy like “C’mon, just serve my ‘GF’ a drink, I swear she’s over 21”, shit like that. We would always complain that this tactic felt a little too much like entrapment. Another thing that kept us from serving underage was the fact that you could go to jail for serving someone alcohol who later went on to get a DUI, in a wreck, cause a crash, etc. I was always wary of over-serving or accepting a fake ID because the repercussions would be massive.