Over A Thousand Students At University Of Dayton Riot In The Streets For St. Paddy’s Day
From Dayton Daily News:
A large disturbance on the University of Dayton campus ended in the arrest of a non-student for underage drinking and public intoxication, according to a university spokeswoman.
What’s the big deal? A large disturbance caused by an on-campus St. Patrick’s Day party ending in a single arrest sounds like a pretty straight-forward, low key get-together with some upstanding members of the Dayton community.
There’s more:
University of Dayton Police along with Dayton Police calmed a large disturbance involving more than one thousand students and other people in the 400 block of Kiefaber Street.
University of Dayton Police were dispatched sometime between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. in response to a false fire alarm, said Teri Rizvi, a university spokeswoman.
I understand now. That’s a lot of green-clad college drunkards in one place who may or may not have taken the movie Project X to heart.
I never understood the whole rioting thing, which typically involves destroying the place or area where you live, but I guess it’s like an unstoppable snowball of bad decisions and heightened emotions, and people feeding off each other.
Let’s talk for a minute about the Dayton police, though, who did a seemingly amazing job at corralling the out-of-control sea of partygoers.
Other students were seen being pushed with police riot gear shields and resisting officer’s efforts to calm the crowd. There are no reports of injuries.
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The area was brought back under control by police around 6:30a.m. Numerous police officers from multiple agencies are continuing to patrol the area and assess damage to police and private vehicles.
That’s a very impressive effort, considering the damage done.
I remember my first Natty Ice.
Here and here are a couple video clips that show the damage.
[H/T to FrattyPebbles]
[via Dayton Daily News]
Fucking Ratchettttt
12 years ago at 10:59 amGlad to see you survived spring break.
12 years ago at 11:16 amI’m feeling like shit
12 years ago at 11:52 amThis was pure chaos. It’s embarrassing that we have students who act like this. UD Police have always done a good job at safely and fairly assessing out of control parties, though. Props to them.
12 years ago at 11:10 amfuck off. No Students were arrested
12 years ago at 9:28 amCalm down, psycho. I didn’t generalize the entire student population, I simply pointed out how embarrassing it is that we have students who will take partying to this extreme.
12 years ago at 10:18 amOn the outside looking in I say dumb asses…. But I bet it was a blast
12 years ago at 11:13 amIt’s “Dayton Daily News,” Dorn.
12 years ago at 11:29 amThanks.
12 years ago at 11:32 amI love the fact that their is a propane tank in the middle of the street- I can definitely see someone saying “hold on I saw this in a movie once” and taking a shotgun to it.
12 years ago at 11:30 amYou’d be out of your god damn mind to park on that street.
12 years ago at 11:37 amState Street makes this look like a small gathering of fourth graders.
12 years ago at 11:45 amGo to Dayton, was at Project Lex was just a bunch of pussies who have never partied
12 years ago at 4:34 pmWe had more fun riots in Lexington last year.
12 years ago at 12:41 pmI was at both and no you didn’t, Project Lex was my kindergarden birthday party compared to this
12 years ago at 4:36 pmI never understood the whole rioting thing.
12 years ago at 12:59 pmNor do I
Rioting is A TLiberalM. A bunch of people just blindly following the crowd, not even considering the lives of others.
12 years ago at 1:05 pmIf it’s mostly white people, can it actually be considered a “riot”?
12 years ago at 1:00 pmthat joke was a riot
12 years ago at 5:26 pm