HELLO LIABILITIES

If you are an owner of a venue, you are always open for liabilities. This list of liabilities can get pretty long and can include things like safety, selling business to minors, stars coming up randomly, etc. In most cases a venue owner is well aware if there is going to be a celebrity coming, but every now and again something out of the norm happens.

Venues owners sometimes feel that if a celebrity is hosting an event at their venue, that everything is going to be okay. That was not the case when rapper Drake showed up with his entourage at an Oklahoma City nightclub during a private party. According to the nightclub owner, the police was called when marijuana smoke was smelled in the rapper’s VIP section. That caused the place to be shut down, the club owner was arrested and the owner received a ticket because a smoked joint was found on the grounds of the nightclub. All of this liability was placed on the club owner but he really did not play a role in these events.

A liability took place at one of the country’s largest venues in 2011. The day after Christmas, a riot take place over rumors that rappers Drake and Lil Wayne were going to be visiting the mall. As a venue owner, who really knows when something like this will take place? There was as many as 200 people involved in the outrage. This included people running around, thing thrown, and people fighting.

Some liabilities will walk right in a venue and cause the place to get shut, leaving the owner looking clueless. In February 2012, ex-nightclub “Karma” was the center point for an indoor shooting, leaving one person dead and 19 others injured. The event caused the club owner to lose his license and close the doors of the club for good.