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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: HoyaSaxa03 on November 13, 2005, 09:10:00 pm
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B5 Concert Turns Chaotic in Minnesota (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111201373.html)
The Associated Press
Sunday, November 13, 2005; 1:34 AM
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. -- Police shut down a suburban shopping mall Saturday after screaming fans of the boy band B5 rushed the stage during a free concert, grabbing at the band members' clothing and overwhelming the small team of security guards.
"Things were falling off the stage, girls were falling off the stage, girls started fighting," said Theresa Curtis, who was working at a store near the stage.
Some of the girls grabbed one of the boys in the band, said Tamy Johnson, another store employee. "He ran to the back. Another boy, he just ran. Security escorted some of the boys out the back," she said.
Four people were treated at a hospital for minor injuries, and five others were treated at the mall, police said. There were no arrests.
More than 2,000 fans, mostly teenage girls, had converged on Brookdale Center mall for the show, sponsored by the local Radio Disney station, KDIZ-AM. The band had made it to the second song when the chaos broke out.
"It just seemed like a girl frenzy," said Christopher Taykalo of Radio Disney.
The 10 mall security guards assigned to the concert and the radio station staff were overwhelmed.
Seventy officers from 23 area Minneapolis-area communities responded to the chaos. It took about 15 minutes for them to get the crowd under control and another 30 minutes to clear out the mall. The mall reopened later Saturday evening.
"I've never seen anything like it in my life," Jennifer Fullbright, 49, of Cottage Grove, told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. She had brought her daughter and her friend to the see the band.
Curtis said her store took in a few girls who had lost their parents amid the ruckus.
B5 is a group of five brothers from Atlanta _ Dustin, Patrick, Kelly, Bryan and Carnell Breeding _ ages 10 to 17. Their debut album, "All I Do," came out this summer, and they toured with the BET cable network's "Scream Tour IV."
© 2005 The Associated Press
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HAHAHA/gross
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There are some rather salacious returns (http://images.google.com/images?q=b5&hl=en) when one tries to Google an image-search for this band.
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Walrus:
There are some rather salacious returns (http://images.google.com/images?q=b5&hl=en) when one tries to Google an image-search for this band.
like a gay menudo that guy would be out of the band cuz he looks to be about a b6 at least. looks like he's got a little peyronies disease goin on...
"It just seemed like a girl frenzy"
[yeah, i hate when that happens!]
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What do you expect, they're signed to P Diddy's Bad Boyz label?
VIDEO: When Radio Disney goes bad (http://kstp.dayport.com/viewer/viewerpage.php?Art_ID=163911)
Who knew there were that many black folks in Minnesota?
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this was the best thing ever to happen to this group ... i can't believe they left them on stage for so long after the shit hit the fan
the racial divide there was also pretty disturbing, everyone in charge (police, staff, etc) were white, 90% in attendance were black ... little kids getting handcuffed on the ground and shit, the cop pumping the shotgun to get the kids to move ... not pretty ...
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This is what happens when the Vikings are playing on the road and the cruise-boat fun moves to the mall....tsk tsk..
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
the racial divide there was also pretty disturbing, everyone in charge (police, staff, etc) were white, 90% in attendance were black ... little kids getting handcuffed on the ground and shit, the cop pumping the shotgun to get the kids to move ... not pretty ...
I wonder how many white cops were patrolling outside the 930 club when Tom Jones played, which I'm sure was a mostly white audience. :eek:
What in God's name, do you need a pump-action shot gun for a Disney concert for?? Unless it was one of those that has a big flag with "BANG" written on it that comes out of the barrel.