Supervisors May Ask Magic Mountain for Compensation : Valencia: The board seeks a detailed report on the mayhem that occurred Saturday at the amusement park.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday asked its staff and the Sheriff’s Department for a detailed report on last weekend’s mayhem at Magic Mountain, and may ask for compensation from the park for costs incurred.

Supervisor Ed Edelman said such a report might help establish procedures for asking entertainment venues for compensation if authorities are called in to quell violence as they did at the Valencia theme park.

“If they turn out the way this one did, certainly the people who put it on should be held responsible,” Edelman said. Perhaps, he added, entertainment companies could be required to post bonds before events that could prove volatile.

Edelman, however, said he wasn’t sure if the county could legally bill Magic Mountain for the time of the more than 450 deputies who responded.

Hundreds of rowdy youths rampaged through the park and nearby businesses Saturday in two waves of violence, first in the afternoon and again at night, leading to dozens of minor injuries and three arrests.

The report would look for ways to avoid a recurrence of Saturday’s violence and point out “areas of responsibility” for Saturday’s melee, said Dawson Oppenheimer, spokesman for Supervisor Mike Antonovich, who originally asked for the report.

“Generally, we expect entrepreneurs who are going to attract security problems to provide the security necessary to deal with those problems,” said Oppenheimer, who stopped short of blaming Magic Mountain for the disturbances.

But some park-goers and Santa Clarita residents have blamed Magic Mountain ticket practices for the violence. As many as 40,000 park-goers paid $26 entrance fees, many of them wanting to attend that night’s concert. But only 3,125 people could be accommodated at each of the two concerts, and angry teens, turned away from the show, began looting the park’s stores.

Magic Mountain officials have consistently maintained that their ticketing practices were not at fault and that the twin outbreaks of violence were sparked by the type of fans attracted by the rap performers.

Park spokeswoman Bonnie Rabjohn said she did not know under what circumstances they would consider compensating the county for its costs. “We will just have to wait and see what happens,” Rabjohn said.

It is also unclear what recourse, if any, will be given to persons who lost property, such as video cameras and purses, during the melee.

“We are handling inquiries on a one-on-one basis,” Rabjohn said, but declined to describe those inquiries or say how many they have received, other than to say they were numerous.