Twitter users should agree on a local hashtag for reports.

How about #avlroofies ? It’s a little long. Any better ideas.

Meanwhile, that’s the one I’ll start searching for.

John and Fobes,

This is a very good idea.  Thanks for spearheading it.

Hashtag suggestion:  @avlroof

And here’s a good Rohypnol fact sheet:  http://teenadvice.about.com/library/weekly/aa062502c.htm

I feel safer already.

Jeff, John, Gordon:

Are ya’ll serious, or is this some sort of satire flying over my head?

Are twitter tags the hot new solution to serious issues?

If I ever need help, remind me to call the police.  I certainly can’t rely on anyone that thinks they are journalist in this town.

Everyone else:  Until someone actually looks into the problem, please be careful at the bars.  Keep your hand on your drink at all times, and a friend nearby.

Anna Sharratt, Prevention, Education & Outreach Coordinator for local nonprofit Our VOICE, wrote Xpress today and asked that we share this information:

“Our VOICE offers free, confidential services for victims of sexual violence and their families and friends, including a 24-hour Crisis Line (255-7576), hospital accompaniment, legal advocacy and case management, and counseling.”

I’m not sure that we’re counting on twitter tags to solve this problem but they can help to spread the word about these incidents and keep people safer.

I was wondering when this would get any attention. I as well as a male friend have been victims of being dosed. I was at Fred’s while my male friend got his at Broadways. The interesting part of it is that it is indiscriminate, male or female, this person thinks it’s funny. So far no one has reported being harmed. Although, I don’t particularly like being half in and half out of my car vomiting my brains out in a dark parking lot at 3am. The perpetrator may not be causing any ‘harm’ but the likelihood of something really bad happening is extraordinarily high. I will say that there is a great deal of suspicion among those of us who have been violated on who we think it is. A tall sandy blond-haired man, who looks like every guy really, but I recognized him being out of place amongst my regular crowd at Fred’s on karaoke night. He bought me a drink, I felt woozy, then found myself in my car some 3 hours later. So now what, since no foul play has happened—yet, how are we to discern the good from the bad???

Great ohia, as soon as we can bring awareness to the new hashtag, we can then bring awareness to the appropriately-hashtag-searching twitterers.