Where I stand on the Chris Patterson’s Vegas story
What a weekend that I wasn’t even apart of. I physically wasn’t there, yet I felt like I was. My friends went down to Vegas for a good weekend. This was planned for about a month and everyone was quite excited. Most excited, probably Cake and Wise but thats beside the point. I did not attend so this is told from an outside perspective:
In short, Friday night they lose one of my great friends Chris Patterson. Well to be fair, no one ‘loses’ him, he ‘loses’ himself. Well I don’t even know if that happened. He just never shows up. Ever. Josh Drucker was the last person to show up in Las Vegas Friday night. He calls Chris when he’s about 20 minutes out of Vegas to let him know he would be there soon and to meet at the hotel. Chris agrees and says he’s on The Strip and he will be at the Hotel in 10 minutes. Josh gets to the hotel but Chris never shows up. Josh calls Chris and asks where he is, and Chris only replies with a frantic “I have to go I’ll call you back” then hangs out never to be heard from again. Everyone takes this pretty lightly at first like they should, why worry about something that is expected from this soon to be Navy Vet? They have a good Friday night but they’re still wondering where the PATTMAN could be. On goes the next day.
Saturday happens and still no sign of the kid. They wait around all day for him to arrive but he doesn’t. Around 10pm that night (24+ hrs later), his parents are informed he is missing. The last thing we heard from him was on the cell phone early friday night where he frantically ‘needed to go’, without any sort of call/text back. What would you think at that point? It’s been 24 hours since you talked to him and the last thing he does is hang up on you with no explanation of his whereabouts or names. He just ‘needs to go’ and doesn’t answer the phone again…
His parents pull an all nighter and try to find their son early Sunday morning after a 7 hour drive. The police are now involved. Missing persons report filed. They search hospitals and jails all around Nevada. People back home in San Diego and San Francisco and soon to be all over the US are eagerly awaiting any form of news. Everyone at this point is hoping for the best but can only think of the worst, especially since a few months back we had a terrible incident similar to this. Everyone is still on edge. RIP BJM.
Now there are facebook posts being made, twitters being tweeted, people are really starting to feel this. Flyer’s start getting posted, facebook groups started being prepared and now everybody who doesn’t know Chris personally is even chatting about this. I’m getting calls and constant txts from all sorts of people. My friends, my friends parents, my parents, everyone wants to be updated with every move of this investigation. Everyone is not only worried but feeling sick their stomach.
Next thing you know, around 2pm Sunday, Chris shows up. We’ll let’s not give him that much credit. He actually never shows up nor calls us (still hasn’t it’s Wednesday). His sister actually calls me to tell me he is safe. Of course I ask ‘where was he’ and she replies slightly embarrassed but relieved, ”with his navy friendz.” Wow. I couldn’t say much more than that, everyone was on a roller coaster ride for 2 days and it wasn’t fun man. Speaking of roller coasters, remember Star 100.7 did that contest? Those people were out of their fucking minds.
To recap: He never once shows up to vegas with the friends he planned the trip with. He doesn’t tell anyone he’s going with a different group of people even after the 2 calls that were made early Friday night. The last call was made around 9 on Friday night when he was supposedly heading to the hotel to meet up with our friends, then he frantically had to go. After that, he never once answered his phone (it rang sometimes and went straight to voicemail other times). He never once called his parents, friends, or asked his navy friendz for a phone to do so. You would think at age 23, you wouldn’t pull this type of immature shit. It’s not something I can be particularly mad at, I could be a lot more mad. I could had been one of those people that went to Vegas ‘with him’ and had my trip ruined because of the retardation that flocked in the air like a powerful plague. Sometimes you scratch your head but at the same time, it’s expected from Chris.
