Posted on 02/11/2014 8:33:49 AM PST by 4Runner
TAMPA — An atmosphere of family fun at the Florida State Fair was trampled Friday night by a crowd of young people carrying out an annual practice known as wilding, sheriff’s investigators said.
By the end of the night, the fair closed early and one teenager among the 99 people ejected for disorderly conduct was killed — hit by a sport utility vehicle as he tried to cross Interstate 4.
Twelve people were arrested on charges including trespassing and fighting.
Now, authorities are considering possible changes in fair policy, including limiting the hours when young people are admitted free to the fair on its first Friday, “Student Day.”
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, which provides fair security, planned for the annual stampede but deputies quickly became overwhelmed as a small group of running teens swelled to hundreds of people running and pushing everyone and everything in their path, Sheriff’s Col. Jim Previtera said.
The department based its planning on last year’s lower levels of violence. Similar outbreaks have been made headlines before nationwide, including an August 2011 incident on opening day of the Wisconsin State Fair.
Instead of the "Running of the Bulls" it's the "Running of the Trayvons."
If so, the solution is simple. Deny access to the demographic that is the most likely to cause problems.
And when the race baiters and the usual suspects cry "racism", tell them, "That's 'tuff shite'. Private property. We can do what we want."
‘Young people’.
What happened - ‘teenages’ or ‘youths’ doesn’t work anymore?
And when the race baiters and the usual suspects cry "racism", tell them, "That's 'tuff shite'. Private property. We can do what we want."
In a sane world, this would be the obvious solution. But we have long ago ceased being a sane world.
Yutes lose when playing frogger ...and I don’t care.
Simply have an onsite detention area and start arresting them for the various infractions. Incarceration and fines to match the crimes. Should be enough videos around to confirm guilt...
Unfortunately, they can’t say who is causing problems as a group. We live in a politically correct world now. We are allowed to say they are teenagers or young people, but are not allowed to be more specific about which types of youth are doing this.
The problem of rampaging youth on the first Friday of the fair, when students are admitted free, dates back to the 1990s or earlier, Previtera said. Some years are worse than others.
Simple solution here.
I did a YouTube search and it seems this is common thing at state fairs:
Iowa State Fair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4lATZc8RX0
Wisconsin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4F8ob9nlfY
Sheriff's statistics for the first Fridays at the Florida State Fair
Maybe the fact that last year they ejected 56 thugs but only arrested two has something to do with the increase in thuggery this year.
Start arresting every one of the thugs and see if the level of violence doesn't drop,
Yup. I do hope the SUV was well-insured, though.
It doesn’t happen at the Texas State Fair.
Actually, it’s state property.
So normal kids would be denied free entrance.
An obvious solution is to call a spade a spade and block one particular type of kid, not all.
How long before the blacks demand WILDING be accepted as an Olympic sport?
When I was in CA in early 2000s, I lived about a mile from the CA State Fairgrounds. It was widely known in the area that the last night of the fair was “beat whitey night.”
Never reported in the media.
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