The facts about the mayhem at the Pumpkin festival have been intentionally skewed to blame the mayhem on over indulgence of alcohol. While the alcohol played a role in the mayhem, the real blame rests with organizers of drug legalization protest that sent out the word to supporters from other colleges in New England to come to Keene for a raucous and destructive good time. The point of which was to get some people arrested for smoking marijuana, not for mayhem and destruction. There is video of the two middle aged men doing just that, while organizing the protest with a bull horn and handing out lit marijuana jonts. The video shows the organizer being handcuffed.
So they were stoned out of their gourds?