Students clean up after mayhem near pumpkin fest
Source: AP-Excite
By HOLLY RAMER
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Keene State College students quickly cleaned up from a chaotic weekend on Sunday after violent parties near the city's annual pumpkin festival led to destruction, dozens of arrests and multiple injuries.
The parties around the school coincided with the Keene Pumpkin Festival, at which the community tries to set a world record of the largest number of carved and lighted jack-o-lanterns in one place. The violence prompted police in riot gear to use tear gas as they tried to control the crowds.
Sophomore Mallory Pearce, vice president of the student body, said she saw a car flipped over in a parking lot, another car being destroyed and people being pepper-sprayed.
"It got way out of hand. Everyone I talked to said, 'I feel unsafe, I'm going home.' They didn't want to be part of the riot, and they couldn't do anything to solve it," she said. "I honestly did not feel safe."
FULL story at link.
In this photo provided by Seth Meyer police officers line up. Local police, firefighters and ambulances in New Hampshire responded to large crowds of students as the annual Pumpkin Festival is underway near Keene State College Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. Media report several people have been injured in an apparent Saturday afternoon melee. (AP Photo/Seth Meyer)
Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20141019/us-pumpkin-fest-crowds-76d27e0173.html
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)We celebrate stupidity and drunkenness and violence and value these above a quality education.
What a waste.
Archae
(46,345 posts)In Europe or South America, or some parts of Central America.
This Pumpkin Festival is piddly in comparison to the riots.
Especially if two bitter rivals are playing.
(If I remember correctly, I think a war broke out over a soccer match couple decades ago in Central America.)
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)And, sure, we could drag Great Britain and their soccer hooligans into this, but I think the culprits there are not at university, typically.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)It was actually about immigration and land reform...
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Saw someone refer to the #keenepumpkinfest riot as a "fracas."
White folks digging deep into their thesaurus to find descriptive words.
5:10 AM - 19 Oct 2014 149 Retweets 113 favorites
Viva la causa! @70torinoman
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White privileged 'thugs' rioting for their right to party and flip cars in #Keene, NH. #pumpkinfest
6:08 PM - 18 Oct 2014 613 Retweets 246 favorites
Molly @mollyrosestl
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So #pumpkinfest is like #Ferguson protests only no purpose, more violence & less police brutality. Cool.
9:15 PM - 18 Oct 2014 347 Retweets 166 favorites
Scary Blah Lady @AngryBlackLady
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White ppl looting at Lacoste.
That's the whole joke.
Just "white people looting at Lacoste." #keenepumpkinfest
5:05 AM - 19 Oct 2014 911 Retweets 491 favorites
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/19/the-double-standard/
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)To think these people are studying something in college.
They'll make great corporate board members, politician.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)It happens to the best of them.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)deep to rationalize. With the 'thugs' not so much, first word comes to mind. Thug, threat, rioter, looter, endangering the 'order'....ect....
heaven05
(18,124 posts)this was not just idiocy, they were looting(finding) things from stores. Turning over cars and lighting large fires. Oh I forgot, this is the 'privileged' class. They will get a slap on the wrist and move on the bigger and better crimes on Wall Street, in business and in government.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I agree with you fully.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Their biggest, most respected major is education. Very few of these folks will wind up as high powered hedge fund managers.
yet, my post stands. Don't care if it's Podunk U., 'leaders' of some type are being 'created' at Keene. I wonder how many future republicans were out that night and involved in that 'melee' that was actually a riot of the privileged involving looting? Period.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)In the linked article...
"...and the riot ended up being wild.....It was fun to be around."
America is fucked up.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Viva la causa! @70torinoman
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White privileged 'thugs' rioting for their right to party and flip cars in #Keene, NH. #pumpkinfest
6:08 PM - 18 Oct 2014 613 Retweets 246 favorites
Molly @mollyrosestl
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So #pumpkinfest is like #Ferguson protests only no purpose, more violence & less police brutality. Cool.
9:15 PM - 18 Oct 2014 347 Retweets 166 favorites
Scary Blah Lady @AngryBlackLady
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White ppl looting at Lacoste.
That's the whole joke.
Just "white people looting at Lacoste." #keenepumpkinfest
5:05 AM - 19 Oct 2014 911 Retweets 491 favorites
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/19/the-double-standard/
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Saw someone refer to the #keenepumpkinfest riot as a "fracas."
White folks digging deep into their thesaurus to find descriptive words.
5:10 AM - 19 Oct 2014 149 Retweets 113 favorites
Makes me sick and
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Zoiks!
Cha
(297,655 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'll have to ask her about it...
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Maybe they can find better things to do?
frylock
(34,825 posts)Sophomore Mallory Pearce, vice president of the student body, said she saw a car flipped over in a parking lot, another car being destroyed and people being pepper-sprayed.
elias49
(4,259 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Well, okay -- I WILL ask the obvious question:
If these rampaging young WHITE people had been black, how many would be dead today, shot to death by the cops?
Cha
(297,655 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)And the public is still asleep. But when the sleeping giant awakens look out.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)That's not a thing. Who's writing this stuff? The word you should have used was "riots", and according to the photos "looting".
Heywood J
(2,515 posts)The article mentioned an attempt to have the largest number of lit jack-o-lanterns in one place...
daleo
(21,317 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)where are the automatic rifles, the armored humvees and tracked vehicles. The robo-cop garbed 'invasion' troops. Oh I forgot it's definitely NOT Ferguson. And it was just pumpkins and frat boys and sorority girls up to 'mischief', not a dead person lying in the streets for hours after being shot down, unarmed, for walking in the street and 'thugs' being pissed off about it and 'rioting'......
LeftinOH
(5,358 posts)and I am inclined to believe it. A "festival" in a semi-remote college town is going to attract no-account yahoos whose only intent is to party hard. I went to a small college in Ohio, and I remember seeing lots of unfamiliar faces whenever there was some action going on.
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)We had the "Hash Bash" every April 1 to commemorate the passing of a state law allowing local option on punishment for possession of small amounts of marijuana. The "punishment" in Ann Arbor was a $5 parking ticket.
The Bash had started as a mellow, local event, but by the time I was a senior, it was getting really rowdy, and there were obviously many non-students participating. There were lots of cop cars, and they weren't there to bust anyone for marijuana. Most of the students did what they could to avoid the central campus area on the day of the Bash.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)until a black man steals a TV.
The only time my local news used the word riot, in their reporting....when describing the police. "police in riot gear" Other than that it was "Mayhem" "partiers" "disturbances". Odd that they described, looting, fires burning, over turned car, street signs being torn down and bottle throwing. All without calling it a riot.