Posted in dance | music on September 18, 2012

Bubble Kingdom

Next time you go, ahem, raving, make sure and stay away from the glowing green pool of water. Two women have allegedly suffered ill affects after going to Return to the Bubble Kingdom on August 4 at a Sunset Park Warehouse:

The two 19-year-old women, Rocio Marie Cabrera and Sarah Deodath of the Bronx, have now filed a lawsuit against the promoters as well as warehouse owner Atlantic Properties. It states that the organizers "dumped toxic chemicals into the large pool to alter 'the color and/or reflective properties' of the water,'" which led to the women ingesting and absorbing the "dangerous, hazardous and/or toxic chemicals." Their lawyer, Keith Sullivan, called the pool a "chemical soup." The suit states the women have been left with a "permanent reduction of visibility in both eyes."

...Another attendee at the party tells us that the pool was "the size of a typical backyard above-ground circular pool," and that "no matter how screwed up you were, it was easy to see you shouldn't go in that pool--it was filthy, the water was green, and it was leaking into the basement." She added that the pool access was only for those with the $90 VIP tickets, "but I didn't see any signs or security keeping regular ticket holders out." -[Gothamist]

Of course someone commented, "This is BS. I was there and a bunch of people I know were in this pool and no one suffered any ill effects," so the jury is still out on the facts of the case. Check out video from the event here.

The next party thrown by the Unicorn Meat gang, who put together the Return to Bubble Kingdom Party, goes down on October 27 and is called Illuminate.

Tags: lawsuits, rave

Comments (35)

This is pretty much the greatest thing that's ever happened.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:07 PM

What form/level of species goes to things like this?

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:10 PM

I really care about this.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:14 PM

lul

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:15 PM

No surprise here. Always people walking around squinting when I go to
Sunset Park for Chinatown.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:15 PM

2:15 that's some minor-league trolling at best. Step it up.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:17 PM

nah, if this is true, it actually kinda sucks.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:18 PM

Follow the Unicorn. He hasn’t steered you wrong yet, not when you joined that troupe of renegade circus performers, or opted for tea-time, Oompah Loompah style. This time, he’s asking you to look up. Easy enough. You do as you’re told --- you see nothing but sky. You ask, "What's the deal, Unicorn? Are you getting...?" Unicorn facepalms you with one hoof. Then you wake up, bound and gagged on the roof. (Don’t argue, that’s just how Magical Beasts tend to roll.) The next thing you know, you’re prancing the sky, and try as you might, you can’t help but feel...like a bit of a dumbass, maybe? What are you, still watching My Little Pony or something? (Wait...wait...yeah, okay, me too....I mean, only sometimes. *scratches head*.) And then you’re there! Hallelujah! You were starting to question all sorts of gender-normative constructs to which you’d previously and unknowingly subscribed! (Which, really, everyone should probably consider unsubscribing from at least once, just sayin’. Unicorns included. )

Wait. Where are you? Aaah, yes. You’re home. Unicorn brought you home, to The Bubble Kingdom, where it all began. You step off your faithful steed (who will, by the by, light you on fire if you actually call him that), and are greeted by the Kingdom’s finest street musicians. They serenade your arrival with some smooth, panty-dropping jazz. (Yeah, I went there. “Jazz, the original dropper of ladies undergarments everywhere.” WHAT.) You walk through luminous cloud bubbles and wander from one blow-out-your-eardrums stage to another. You ooh, and aah at the aerialist, like in the days of yore, as only the most skillful of neon-badonkadonked performers and dancers entertain at this court. Unicorn nudges you past the art, gentle at first. Then he blows his nose your ear --- a friendly reminder to get him juiced up at the nearby black light waterfall. After that, of course, you mustn't forget the den of cushiony goodness downstairs: hookah, pillows, mingling. The good life of the kingdom.

sorry i missed it

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:22 PM

Who the fuck throws a rave in Sunset Park? Or throws a rave in general? Grow up, kids.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:26 PM

has it had any effect on the ravers' brown-eyes?

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:26 PM

pharmaceutical urine

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:34 PM

Pretty much every attempt at humor in the history of the comments section of this site has failed to be funny.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:35 PM

Oh god at least the sausage/pizza guy is limited to metal threads.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:38 PM

I can't decide what's more confusing to me:

1) White kids going to Sunset Park
or
2) Puerto Rican kids going to raves


And, it's obviously gotta be one or both.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 2:49 PM

I for one thought 2:15's comment was hilarious

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 3:07 PM

That sucks, wonder if the tickets have a disclaimer of liability on them

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 3:14 PM

I love that the website says the glowing pool could be swam in "by a special, select group of people"


i.e.: Bros that pay lots of money, and ANY girl

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 3:18 PM

Praying their tounges fall out next

Posted by Bono & the Edge | September 18, 2012 3:24 PM

you mean you know a bunch of people who can't sniff a class action lawsuit...

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 3:26 PM

3:26 good lord, the promoters better be happy it was in Sunset Park and not Midwood then, eh?

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 3:47 PM

I'm shocked by all this.

Shocked that people still rave, that is.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 3:51 PM

If I went to a rave until 6am, I'd be begging to be deaf, not blind

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 4:01 PM

I often drink the pee I swim in. It's a problem.

Posted by 2:35 is a humorless cock without a cock and I'm quite sure I could kill it | September 18, 2012 4:02 PM

"It's not a rave unless there is an overwhelming scent of Angel Dust in the air"
-slug man the raver

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 4:19 PM

Dear god look at those people in the picture. Try to imagine being in a setting like that ALL NIGHT. I think I'd rather wait at the DMV all night.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 4:42 PM

you meant "ill effects"

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 4:48 PM

Disappointed that I missed this. That foamy pool looks so inviting, as do the brown hoochies from which that oily discharge cometh.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 4:49 PM

As the person talking shit in 4:42, I would like to distance myself from the person talking shit at 4:49 and state that I, personally, have absolutely no problems with brown hoochies.

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 4:53 PM

I wouldn't mind splashing around the left side of that pool, maybe add my lifemix to the contents of the pool

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 6:23 PM

poor people pool+ syphillis + green food dye = fun thymes

Posted by Anonymous | September 18, 2012 11:18 PM

I was at this, and I went in the pool. The wrehouse was fuckin dope, and the pool awesome too. No side effects (yet).

Sunset Park was a paaaain in the ass to get to.. though this was actually one of the better parties of the summer ..


y'all need to get that pole out of your ass for a minute.

Posted by Stephen Whitfield | September 18, 2012 11:26 PM

^
Pole in the ass? WHAT? Stephen, did you wear a condom? You know ravers never wear condoms.

Posted by Stephen Whitfield's_MOM | September 19, 2012 1:09 AM

NO SHIT! They probably emptied glow sticked into the water!

Posted by Anonymous | September 19, 2012 1:16 AM

Any sensable raver knows not to swim in something like that and that its purely decoration. I have raved for years and years and the newfound popularity of electronic dance music is causing an influx of non-raver Bro type partiers that cant handle it. They should stay in Pasha and keep their vision. This is sad but also very dumb. There are much better legitimate party throwing crews in the tri-state area that actually care about their customers.

Posted by poppa | September 19, 2012 10:22 AM

ever seen people leave a break in party at an abandoned foundry? they are covered in hazardous waste, their offspring are all horribly mutated..

Posted by the bard | September 20, 2012 1:56 AM

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