re: Mizzou Senior missing in Nashville-*UPDATED*-Found Deceased

Really scary. Can't help but relate to this event being someone who is less than a decade removed from college and who was born/raised & lived in downtown Nashville for nearly 5 years upon college graduation. As someone who heavily binged drank socially from my college years thru my early/mid 20s living the downtown Nashville booze life, I quite literally have "been there" like Riley was that night. I was lucky as hell that I fortunately managed to never find legal or physical trouble, but man I easily could have a few times down there over the years.

I will say I don't remember anyone ever getting "drugged" or even thinking they were. If people are actually being drugged at bars now in DT Nashville, that's a new thing that wasn't there when I was doing the Nashville living thing just a few years ago. Perhaps I might have been oblivious to stuff like that, but I really doubt it tbh considering I never heard about this stuff down there until this past week. But it does get sloppy AF on Broadway and you can easily find yourself in some drunken trouble. Thousands of drunkards surrounding hundreds of sober officers/bouncers is a perfect recipe to potentially find yourself in either legal and/or physical trouble.


I will say though...Nashville has a serious problem imo with the overall bouncer/private security culture in the entertainment district. Nashville bouncers generally are not the brightest bulbs in the box. Like, just some hilariously stupid people who probably harbor insecurities over being bullied as kids or something. I witnessed with my own eyes SEVERAL instances over the years where private security at these bars decided to go full on thug criminal on people just because the bouncers became "pissed off" at someone being drunk at a bar in Nashville. Stuff like taking someone under a staircase or wherever they knew camera blind spots were to beat someone's arse just because before ejecting them happened often. Of course these bouncers are/were never charged with anything by MNPD. In the eyes of MNPD private security members on lower broadway are apparently incapable of being dishonest. They always got the benefit of the doubt over the drunkard they just criminally whooped. And now as a result of this culture that has emboldened bouncer thuggery, multiple people have literally unnecessarily died due to this Nashville culture of bouncer negligence and deviance. Had like 6 bouncers gang tackle someone until he fricking suffocated to death. No charges for anyone of course. Had another bouncer just last month decide to sucker punch someone in the back of the skull at Tin Roof near Vandy only for the poor 25 year old dude to hit his head directly on the pavement, which fricking killed him. Only aggravated assault chares have been dished out so far of course (bouncer was black, dude was white so gotta be careful in an election year I guess!)

While I personally got sick of that lifestyle by the time I was 25/26 and have not gone boozing downtown now since the pandemic era began, don't get me wrong, a night on the town in Nashville can be awesomely fun. However, there is some serious systemic issues overall with how things are ran down there. One can go from having a great night out to having things turn disastrously on a dime.

Bottom line: If you are getting blacked out in Nash, FFS make sure you have a good group of actual friends accompanying you along the way. Being drunkenly confused and alone wondering in downtown Nashville can get you a night in jail or far worse as we are seeing now with this tragedy that is unfolding.