I propose there be bannings from industry(webmaster) events

I'm glad that happened, but he should've been thrown in the fountain..

the

defense is the lamest bullshit line ever.

I propose a public stoning as a deterrent

Ok, while I understand what you are trying to accomplish, I'm sure no one is going to sponsor free WEAPONS at a drunken webmaster convention. That is a lawsuit waiting to happen! Our models deal with the same groping, etc at shows, we usually solve the problem by not leaving them unescorted. When there is a problem, the offending convention-goer is first given an "educational" warning, and on 2nd offense I've seen people kicked in the nuts, poked in the eye, or slapped into a wall. There are MANY stand up people usually hanging around that are happy to help out any woman in distress.

Steve Lightspeed

You gotta remember that I'm a Texan. If we had any major shows HERE I would have suggested something more appropriate for the situation. Like...

The LightSpeed edition, .50AE Desert Eagle Mark XIX, 6-Inch Barrel, Black Oxide

that will never happen they want the money lol

Keyoboard warriors watch out!

im sorry i didnt mean to drink your bloody mary

4 words

Dog the Bounty Hunter

STEVEEEEE!!! I want one of these ;)

Heheh...kidding. I actually prefer the nut-kicking suggestion

Note to self : Start sending more traffic to LightSpeed just in case Steve sends Sweetums her own Desert Eagle!!!

Start sending more traffic to LightspeedCash just 'cause it ROCKS

I'm a pussycat at heart...but I won't tolerate being disrespected. Fortunately, I've always worked with people who didn't tolerate that either....the nut-kicking strategy was actually Steve's suggestion ;)

in this post not going on eather side of the issue. But what makes you think that " unfortunately you can't ban someone," umm this is not some public thing run buy the goverment, they sure can ban some one.

Any of you people ever visit a message board called "Go Fuck Yourself"? It's a place "where the industry meets" to talk about women as pieces of meat and where being insulting and aggressive is regarded as an effective marketing tactic. It's a place where a bit of third-rate drama runs to more posts and views than a discussion about major changes affecting the industry.

So boards like GFY are just that: boards. No-one gets hurt and you aren't supposed to take them too seriously. But 365 days a year, they are setting the tone for our industry. Is it surprising if all that starts to spill over into real life?

Or maybe we are just kidding ourselves anyway and the tone of the boards comes from real life and not the other way around? Plenty of the people in this thread apparently think that violence is an appropriate response to a drunk getting out of hand. That's pretty much the way it is at the bar just up the road from here, but then who looks to red-neck bars in small mid-west towns to define acceptable standards of behavior?

Behaviour generally comes in a package. Not everyone with a foul mouth has a potential for violence. And not everyone who can be violent doesn't know - drunk or sober - how to treat women with some respect. But if some aspects of antisocial behaviour are considered acceptable, even cool, get a crowd together and you had better expect the others to appear sooner or later. Sooner, when you add alcohol to the mix...

what a cry baby