RE: Carlisle eliminates compact shows
Wow, 200 to 300 arrests and citations.
I don't know what it's like nowadays, but I went to the Indy 500 in 1985 or 1986 (whichever year it got rained out) with some friends and we stayed in the infield the whole weekend. The stuff I saw was insane. I saw two young (17-ish) girls get their tops ripped off and groped by a gang of about thirty drunken motherf_ckers (sorry, it's the only way I can describe them). Probably another hundred were cheering them on. A bunch of us tried to force our way in there and break it up, but I got knocked to the ground and called a fag. Thankfully, about six cops showed up within a minute or so (tipped off by the girls' screams), but the damage was done as far as those two girls were concerned. I gave a statement, but never heard back about it. The whole thing lasted two minutes tops. It made me physically ill afterwards.
The thing is, the whole thing started out with the traditional "Show us your ***s!", and the girls obliged, thinking it was fun, and it escalated from there. In no way does that justify what happened, but it just goes to show that alcohol mixed with a bunch of horny assholes is a bad formula.
Man, I haven't thought about that in years, but I'm shaking just thinking about it again.
Sorry, I didn't mean to go off on some sick story. I don't know what happened at Carlisle, but it must have been pretty serious judging by their comments.