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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/st-patricks-day-party-mob-sets-fires-battles-102502937.html
LONDON, Ont. - Community pride was at an all-time high in London, Ont., Sunday after an intoxicated crowd of St. Patrick's Day revellers spent the previous night fuelling a huge street fire and attacking authorities who tried to intervene.
While no one was seriously injured as a mob of some 1,000 people took over a residential area popular with students, police said every officer responding to the situation was attacked during an upheaval that could have turned into something far worse.
"Never in my 32 years as a police officer have I observed behaviours that escalated to the point where there was risk that individuals could seriously be hurt or quite frankly killed," London's chief of police Brad Duncan told reporters.
"We will not tolerate this lack of respect for our community, our laws and specifically this neighbourhood."
When reached for comment, one drunken reveller was quoted as saying "Sure an' begorrah, kiss me I'm Irish!" He then removed his pants and urinated on another patrygoer, triggering a brief fistfight that culminated in projectile vomiting of all involved.
The crowd then treated the assembled officers and paramedics to a slurred, off-key rendition of "Danny Boy."
Some police officers later likened the scene to a war zone as party-goers fuelled the flames with furniture, fences and anything else they could find, while pelting authorities with bricks, beer bottles and tires, a stirring homage to the proud Irish tradition of pelting authorities with bricks, beer bottles and tires.
"To say that I am disappointed and disgusted is an understatement," said mayor Joe Fontana.
"We can thank our luck stars that nobody was killed...this is an injury for the whole city of London...they will pay."
LONDON, Ont. - Community pride was at an all-time high in London, Ont., Sunday after an intoxicated crowd of St. Patrick's Day revellers spent the previous night fuelling a huge street fire and attacking authorities who tried to intervene.
While no one was seriously injured as a mob of some 1,000 people took over a residential area popular with students, police said every officer responding to the situation was attacked during an upheaval that could have turned into something far worse.
"Never in my 32 years as a police officer have I observed behaviours that escalated to the point where there was risk that individuals could seriously be hurt or quite frankly killed," London's chief of police Brad Duncan told reporters.
"We will not tolerate this lack of respect for our community, our laws and specifically this neighbourhood."
When reached for comment, one drunken reveller was quoted as saying "Sure an' begorrah, kiss me I'm Irish!" He then removed his pants and urinated on another patrygoer, triggering a brief fistfight that culminated in projectile vomiting of all involved.
The crowd then treated the assembled officers and paramedics to a slurred, off-key rendition of "Danny Boy."
Some police officers later likened the scene to a war zone as party-goers fuelled the flames with furniture, fences and anything else they could find, while pelting authorities with bricks, beer bottles and tires, a stirring homage to the proud Irish tradition of pelting authorities with bricks, beer bottles and tires.
"To say that I am disappointed and disgusted is an understatement," said mayor Joe Fontana.
"We can thank our luck stars that nobody was killed...this is an injury for the whole city of London...they will pay."
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