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America's Next Top Melee: NYC Model Tryouts End in Disaster
E! Online ^ | March 14, 2009 | Marcus Errico

Posted on 03/15/2009 6:08:20 AM PDT by Reeses

And you thought the onscreen catfights on America's Next Top Model were good...

New York police arrested three people following a massive stampede that erupted during a casting call for the new season of the Tyra Banks-powered reality contest—a melee that involved hundreds of people outside a Central Park hotel.

At least six people were injured, two of whom were hospitalized, in a scene that left the surrounding vicinity looking like Fashion Week meets Thunderdome and shut down the auditions.

Police said they did not immediately know what triggered the crush of bodies, but according to the New York Daily News, the combination of would-be catwalkers (all under 5-foot-7 this cycle) waiting on line for hours and a broken-down BMW proved combustible.

A fight had broken out among some of the bystanders; then, moments later, the car appeared, spewing smoke, and reportedly led to shouts that a bomb had gone off.

"The girls were running like it was 9/11 part two," 27-year-old Jennifer Brown of, Brooklyn told the Daily News. "I feared for my life."

(Excerpt) Read more at eonline.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: model
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To: Strategerist; 6SJ7

My grandfather’s grandfather was a police captain during the 1863 New York draft riots. It was worse than anything in NYC since.


21 posted on 03/15/2009 7:58:21 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: Reeses

99.9% of them voted for Obama.


22 posted on 03/15/2009 8:00:05 AM PDT by taillightchaser (!)
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To: 12Gauge687
I’d commit them to an Emily Post etiquette course if I were the judge.

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. ; >)

23 posted on 03/15/2009 8:02:11 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: csvset
LOL! Thanks for the video link. Video is taped from about 10 floors above looking down into the street below. It reminds me of two competing tribes of ants fighting over the carcase of a dead grasshopper. Saw those pics at the beginning of the thread. None of those are model material. Walk to the nearest Micky D's or Wendys and fill out an application there.
24 posted on 03/15/2009 8:08:03 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: Lockbar
Walk to the nearest Micky D's or Wendys and fill out an application there

You have it all wrong. These people are not looking for a job. They're looking to hit it big on a television show.

25 posted on 03/15/2009 8:10:47 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Strategerist; 6SJ7

Or the 1892 Homestead Strike with 10 dead and hundreds injured.


26 posted on 03/15/2009 8:12:48 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat (Sacred cows make the best hamburger.)
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To: Reeses

This so going to be an episode of one of those “Law and Order” shows.....


27 posted on 03/15/2009 6:41:37 PM PDT by yield 2 the right
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