THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT RIOTS
Added on: 28th Jun 2016
SINGAPORE WAS A STATE IN MALAYSIA FOR LESS
THAN TWO YEARS BEFORE RACIAL RIOTS FORCED
IT TO BECOME INDEPENDENT
AS A RESULT OF THESE RIOTS, SINGAPORE IS THE
ONLY COUNTRY TO HAVE EVER GAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE
AGAINST ITS WILL (IT WAS THROWN OUT OF MALAYSIA)
IN 1974 THE CLEVELAND INDIANS HELD A TEN CENT
BEER NIGHT AS A PROMOTION. FANS GOT SO DRUNK
AND ROWDY THAT THE GAME HAD TO BE CALLED
OFF EARLY
IN 2006 PROTESTORS IN HUNGARY HOT-WIRED A
SOVIET TANK THAT WAS ON DISPLAY AT A MEMORIAL
AND DROVE IT INTO A GROUP OF RIOT POLICE
DURING THE NEW MEXICO STATE PENITENTIARY RIOTS,
PRISON GANGS TOOK OVER AND THEN TOOK FIVE
HOURS TO CUT THROUGH THE BARS OF THE
PROTECTIVE CUSTODY UNIT (WHICH HOUSED
SNITCHES AND SEX OFFENDERS). AFTER FIVE
HOURS THEY DRAGGED THEIR FELLOW PRISONERS
OUT AND BRUTALLY TORTURED, BEHEADED AND
BURNED THEM. ALTHOUGH THE POLICE COULD HAVE
LET THEM OUT THROUGH A BACK DOOR THEY DIDN'T
BECAUSE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE PRISONERS
AND THE POLICE HAD BEEN STALLED
IN 1896, AT THE CORONATION OF CZAR NICHOLAS II,
NEARLY 1,400 PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF RIOTS
STARTED DUE TO RUMOURS ABOUT THE FREE
BEER HAVING RUN OUT
WHEN THE SMITHSONIAN OPENED A CONTROVERSIAL
NEW MUSEUM IN A PRIMARILY BLACK PART OF
WASHINGTON DC MANY PEOPLE SAID IT WOULD BE
VANDALIZED AND DESTROYED. DURING THE 1968
RIOTS IT WAS ONE OF THE FEW BUILDINGS
LEFT UNTOUCHED
IN 1826, CADETS AT WEST POINT HELD A
CHRISTMAS PARTY THAT TURNED INTO A BEER
INDUCED RIOT ENDING WITH 20 COURT-MARTIALS.
IT HAS SINCE BEEN LABELLED THE EGGNOG RIOT
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