Man Stabbed, Killed At Comfest

“Violence in this City is worse than I’ve ever seen and I have lived here most of my 44 years”

Whatever you do, don’t let facts or statistics stand in the way of your doom and gloom.  Violent crime was down in 2008 by 7.5% and Columbus had a lower violent crime rate than Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, or Toledo.

This was a homicide.  No one stabs someone 4 to 5 times just messing around.  So many of you tell one another to “get your facts straight” when you know no facts yourself.

Fact; A man died after being stabbed by another, which is a homicide.  When, why, how, is for the investigators to determine and I am sure that they will not be calling any of you for advice or information who didn’t witness this incident.

Comm Fest is as I know it, a festival celebrating our community.  As is this community, the festival goers are as diverse as our population.  Like it or not, elements of our community are bad.  If you hide from this fact, you are ignorant.  Believe what you believe, teach your children the same, but don’t ignore the dangers.

Comm Fest organizers try hard to provide an event that is appealing to all.  They fall far short in the security aspect of this.  In my opinion the organizers only see the part of the community they like and not the community as a whole.  The organizers I have encountered (and you will just have to take my word for this…if you knew me you would understand) hold law enforcement as a necessary “evil” and make little effort to hide their feelings about this.  In short, without going into specifics, their priorities are wishy washy at best, more concerned about perception than safety for festival goers.

Everyone is being so negative about this.  That’s not the spirit of Comfest.

What about the thousands of people who weren’t stabbed?  Why isn’t anyone talking about them?

user 35 why have the signs all around every park including goodale state alcohol prohibitted year round? you can not consume alcohol in city or state parks and the comfest stated 40,000 cans collected last year, when they asked for comfest goers to volunteer and help clean up? note the signs this year, if you bring it in you take it out with you, on the same one saying no byob? and more beer sales at the stores is more tax money not more cheap beer for high prices at the comfest boothes. they rented the space and keep the money for their operating budget that was over 350,000 this year. it was all in the dispatch and was from the head of the festival. who also said the byob wasnt profit driven. lol

hossua34 i said it was only enforced this year responding to a post saying it has always ben illegal, wich it has just never enforced and almost promoted until a lack of volunteers to clean up the huge mess that was left. then someone relized how much money they were missing as a 12 pack of cans cost the same as a few tokens. if you have ever ben in the last 10 years then you know people abused the ability to bring their own drinks by bring multiple coolers full. so lets read befor we jump to conclusions. i lived a few blocks from there for 28 years and watched it grow from the gravel lot that now has condos to the move acroos the street to goodale park. yes this year they were searching coolers but it didnt stop everyone is there were others empty cans by you. lets go without the beer altoghther next year like it should be in parks or move the comfest out of the park.