Cricket Fans Willing to Riot For Fried Chicken

Cricket games would make me want to start throwing bottles and looting catering vans, too. I can’t sit still for longer than 30 minutes, much less for the full month it seems to take to finish an entire cricket match. The medication is to blame for this, yes, but without it the ceiling tiles tell me to burn things and run around the neighborhood nude, and we don’t need that happening, now do we?↵↵So it is with some sympathy that I present the following account from the Sydney Morning-Herald of the aftermath of Australia’s deflating blowout of a proud West Indies cricket side in Kingstown, St. Vincent, BWI.↵

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↵↵⇥In addition to a bottle-throwing incident, a mini-riot erupted in between innings when more than a thousand spectators broke down a fence to loot a utility vehicle packed with fried chicken. Several people were knocked to the ground in the crush, and the driver of the van was accosted by several angry youths.↵↵↵Go ahead and throw bottles if you must, people, but keep the sweet, battery sanctity of the fried chicken truck intact. The punishment for such a violation is severe, and you are not likely prepared for it. John Kruk did exactly the same thing following a bench-clearing brawl in 1995, and he’s been wearing a shock collar on his ankle ever since, hopelessly trapped in the ESPN studios for going on 13 years now. Unless you’ve been to Bristol and seen the horror for yourself, you can’t really understand just how painful a punishment this really can be.
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