What is everyone doin for the 4th?
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Once again, a few dozen individuals celebrate the 4th of July with a drunken brawl. Actually, two brawls, LOL! The Sacramento Sheriff's Department disperses yet another unruly crowd of drunken dumbasses on 'Gilligan's Island' and another crowd at a fireworks show in Rancho Cordova. I didn't do anything nearly as exciting yesterday. 
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/s...15084558c.html
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http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/s...15084558c.html
Originally Posted by SacBee.com
Rafters take over off-limits island after drunken melee occurred last year
Published 12:01 am PDT Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Story appeared in Metro section, Page B1
Drunken river rafters clubbed one another with oars Tuesday during a melee among 30 to 40 people at Goethe Park that sent at least one unidentified man to the UC Davis Medical Center with head injuries, authorities said Tuesday.
"It was a combination of alcohol and immature people," said Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Jeff Lynch. "People were swinging oars at one another and fighting."
July Fourth also proved rowdy as an evening fireworks show at Rancho Cordova's Hagan Community Park turned unruly. Police officers fired pepper ***** and used Taser darts to disperse a crowd before the show was over, Lynch said.
About 20 to 30 young men were acting unruly, Lynch said, and officers were called in along with deputies from Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, other agencies and three ambulances from the Sacramento Fire Department.
The fighting had escalated when a young man started beating up his girlfriend and a crowd of his friends stopped an unarmed security guard and later a police officer from intervening, Lynch said.
Other officers arrived and the crowd of young men started moving toward police, Lynch said. Officers fired pepper-spray guns into the crowd to stop them, he said. "One of them refused to stop, and he was hit by a Taser dart," Lynch said. One of the ambulances dispatched to the fight took the man hit by the Taser to Mercy San Juan Medical Center. He was in stable condition. Lynch said.
Though there were no arrests on the American River, Sacramento County sheriff's deputies and park rangers contended again with drunken revelers on a tiny island north of Hagan Park.
Rafters temporarily took over the island, which had been declared off-limits after drunken fights and 30 arrests there last year. Authorities quickly moved in with a show of force and dispersed them without incident.
On a sunny day when an estimated 10,000 people floated down the river, many of them drinking, one man was cited for vandalism, said Dave Lydick, chief ranger for Sacramento County Regional Parks.
About 4 p.m., two women swam out to the island and tore down the tape, plastic barriers and signs saying the island was closed.
All but 20 to 30 of the approximately 150 people on the island dispersed when rangers arrived. But 15 sheriff's deputies armed with pepper ***** and bullhorns cleared the remaining crowd peacefully, he said.
Last year, officers fired dozens of rounds of the pepper powder ***** into rowdy drunken crowds gathered on the small slice of land that many call "Gilligan's Island."
Lynch said at least five people were injured during the separate late-afternoon melee at Goethe Park spot where rafters leave the water.
Lynch did not identify a patient taken to UC Medical Center with head injuries.
He said a second unidentified man with head injuries refused treatment, saying a friend would drive him to medical care.
Published 12:01 am PDT Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Story appeared in Metro section, Page B1
Drunken river rafters clubbed one another with oars Tuesday during a melee among 30 to 40 people at Goethe Park that sent at least one unidentified man to the UC Davis Medical Center with head injuries, authorities said Tuesday.
"It was a combination of alcohol and immature people," said Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Jeff Lynch. "People were swinging oars at one another and fighting."
July Fourth also proved rowdy as an evening fireworks show at Rancho Cordova's Hagan Community Park turned unruly. Police officers fired pepper ***** and used Taser darts to disperse a crowd before the show was over, Lynch said.
About 20 to 30 young men were acting unruly, Lynch said, and officers were called in along with deputies from Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, other agencies and three ambulances from the Sacramento Fire Department.
The fighting had escalated when a young man started beating up his girlfriend and a crowd of his friends stopped an unarmed security guard and later a police officer from intervening, Lynch said.
Other officers arrived and the crowd of young men started moving toward police, Lynch said. Officers fired pepper-spray guns into the crowd to stop them, he said. "One of them refused to stop, and he was hit by a Taser dart," Lynch said. One of the ambulances dispatched to the fight took the man hit by the Taser to Mercy San Juan Medical Center. He was in stable condition. Lynch said.
Though there were no arrests on the American River, Sacramento County sheriff's deputies and park rangers contended again with drunken revelers on a tiny island north of Hagan Park.
Rafters temporarily took over the island, which had been declared off-limits after drunken fights and 30 arrests there last year. Authorities quickly moved in with a show of force and dispersed them without incident.
On a sunny day when an estimated 10,000 people floated down the river, many of them drinking, one man was cited for vandalism, said Dave Lydick, chief ranger for Sacramento County Regional Parks.
About 4 p.m., two women swam out to the island and tore down the tape, plastic barriers and signs saying the island was closed.
All but 20 to 30 of the approximately 150 people on the island dispersed when rangers arrived. But 15 sheriff's deputies armed with pepper ***** and bullhorns cleared the remaining crowd peacefully, he said.
Last year, officers fired dozens of rounds of the pepper powder ***** into rowdy drunken crowds gathered on the small slice of land that many call "Gilligan's Island."
Lynch said at least five people were injured during the separate late-afternoon melee at Goethe Park spot where rafters leave the water.
Lynch did not identify a patient taken to UC Medical Center with head injuries.
He said a second unidentified man with head injuries refused treatment, saying a friend would drive him to medical care.
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The fighting had escalated when a young man started beating up his girlfriend and a crowd of his friends stopped an unarmed security guard and later a police officer from intervening, Lynch said.
Time to thin the heard.
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Haha the river was crackin!! not nearly as good as last year though cause they closed the island 
i saw that 5 person fight go down at goethe, some chick slugged a cop in the face!! drunk girls FTW!
i saw that 5 person fight go down at goethe, some chick slugged a cop in the face!! drunk girls FTW!
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Originally Posted by ryball
So... some guy was beating his woman, and his friends stood there and let him? Even prevented other people from stopping him beat his girlfriend?
Time to thin the heard.
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Originally Posted by ryball
So... some guy was beating his woman, and his friends stood there and let him? Even prevented other people from stopping him beat his girlfriend?
Time to thin the heard.
Time to thin the heard.
Originally Posted by T-Will
Isn't that what you're supposed to do when your woman doesn't obey?
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Originally Posted by RussB
oh man, we almost went to the rancho fireworks show last night. we watched the show at sunrise mall, it was ok.
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