CRAZY THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT RIOTS
Added on: 20th Apr 2016
IN 532 AD A SPORT RIOT DESTROYED HALF OF
CONSTANTINOPLE AND KILLED TENS OF
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. IT LASTED SEVERAL
DAYS AND WAS CALLED THE NIKA RIOT
ZOOT SUIT RIOT WASN'T JUST A METAPHOR FOR
DANCING. IT WAS A REAL RIOT.
IN 1355 TWO STUDENTS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY
INCITED A RIOT BECAUSE THEIR BEER TASTED POOR.
THE MATTER WAS SETTLED IN FAVOUR OF THE
STUDENTS AND FOR THE NEXT 470 YEARS THE
TOWN COUNCIL HAD TO MARCH BAREHEADED
THROUGH THE STREETS EVERY YEAR (UNTIL ONE OF
THE MAYORS FINALLY REFUSED IN 1825).
FRED DURST, THE LEAD SINGER OF LIMP BIZKIT,
STARTED A RIOT AT WOODSTOCK '99 WITH THE
SONG BREAK STUFF. SEVERAL FIRES WERE
EVEN STARTED
IN 2005, THERE WAS A LARGE RIOT IN NORTH KOREA
WHEN THE NORTH KOREAN FOOTBALL TEAM
LOST TO IRAN.
DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, LINCOLN PASSED
LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWED PEOPLE TO PAY $300
TO GET OUT OF THE DRAFT. SINCE ONLY THE UPPER
CLASS COULD AFFORD THIS, THE NEW YORK CITY
DRAFT RIOTS FOLLOWED. THESE WERE THE LARGEST
CIVIL INSURRECTION IN AMERICAN HISTORY NEXT
TO THE CIVIL WAR ITSELF
THE FIRST RECORDED "MOONING" HAPPENED IN 66 AD
WHEN A ROMAN SOLDIER MOONED JEWISH PILGRIMS.
THIS LED TO A RIOT, WHICH LED TO A MILITARY
RESPONSE, AND WHEN THE DUST HAD SETTLED
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAD LOST THEIR LIVES
IN NEVADA, ANY DISTURBANCE WITH TWO OR MORE
PEOPLE IS CONSIDERED A RIOT WHILE IN THE
UNITED STATES AS A WHOLE, IT TAKES AT LEAST
THREE PEOPLE TO BE CONSIDERED A RIOT
IN THE UK, A CIVIL DISTURBANCE MUST INVOLVE AT
LEAST 12 PEOPLE IN ORDER TO BE LABELLED AS A RIOT
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