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When celebration turns to catastrophe... Join us as we count down our picks for the most infamous gatherings that descended into chaos! From ancient festivals gone wrong to modern tragedies, these events remind us how quickly revelry can turn to disaster. Which notorious party disaster shocked you the most? Let us know in the comments!
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00:00The French Chronicles give rather more information about the outcome than the English ones.
00:05Henry lost.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at social gatherings that spiraled into chaos,
00:11and in some cases, tragedy.
00:13Westbrook then grabbed a rifle from his truck and started shooting.
00:17Unpermitted Rooftop Concert, Los Angeles.
00:20It's easy to take a good time too far.
00:22On Memorial Day weekend, a rooftop punk show quickly got out of hand.
00:26Hundreds of people arrived to enjoy the show, quickly causing a scene of pure debauchery.
00:31More than 1,000 people had gathered on the rooftop to watch a punk band perform.
00:36Things went from bad to worse once the police arrived.
00:39The crowd quickly split up, but not without causing some chaos on the way out.
00:43Countless buildings and vehicles were tagged with graffiti.
00:45Officers had items thrown at them, and commuters were trapped as people blocked trains.
00:49The out-of-control behavior continues as the rowdy crowd targets two metro trains.
00:55The mayhem wasn't just on the West Coast.
00:57Just a few days beforehand, a party at Smokehouse Valley Farms in North Carolina got so out of hand
01:02that dozens of calls were made to authorities to break it up.
01:05Roughly 70 calls for help, all from one party on May 2nd.
01:10Benoit Savion's Final Dinner Party, France.
01:14What should have been a nice dinner amongst friends resulted in cold-blooded crime instead.
01:17In 2006, Benoit Savion accepted an invitation to a dinner party,
01:21not knowing it would be the last decision he'd ever make.
01:24At some point during the meal, he brought up his lucrative financial situation.
01:27Authorities believe it was the catalyst for how the night ended.
01:30The other attendees made sure Savion was heavily intoxicated before suddenly kidnapping him
01:34and taking him into the woods.
01:36There, they beat him to death before leaving his body behind.
01:39All eight guests were arrested, and six were further investigated,
01:42revealing that they had violently stolen from others in the past as well.
01:46It goes to show that even the mildest get-togethers can end in horror.
01:49Gloria Kuhn's Apartment Bash, Texas.
01:51Coy Wayne Westbrook had only been divorced for a short time
01:55before deciding to make up with his ex-wife, Gloria.
01:57He had an opportunity when she invited him to a party she was throwing.
02:00When he arrived, instead of a warm welcome,
02:02the other guests insulted him over his ex's cheating.
02:04After walking in on Gloria with two other men, Westbrook snapped.
02:07He left, retrieved a gun, and when he returned, things boiled over.
02:11I whipped out my rifle and went into the hat with no intentions to hurt nobody.
02:15He fatally shot three attendees before heading to the bedroom
02:18and doing the same to both Gloria and another man.
02:20Rogers, along with Diane Money, Kelly Hazlip, Antonio Cruz, and Gloria Coons
02:24were all shot and killed by Westbrook in Channelview.
02:27He was arrested that night in 1997, and after a swift trial,
02:30found himself on death row, where he remained until his execution in 2016.
02:35I am sorry that I cannot bring everybody back.
02:37I wish it could be different.
02:38Andrew Jackson's Inauguration Party, Washington, D.C.
02:41Thousands of farmers and tradesmen who had never been to Washington, D.C. before
02:46poured into the White House.
02:48It seems unthinkable now, but in the 19th century,
02:51everyday citizens had an opportunity to visit the White House
02:54and the newly elected president.
02:55The tradition began with Thomas Jefferson and ended with Grover Cleveland,
02:59but Andrew Jackson made the biggest splash.
03:01After his first inauguration, tens of thousands of people arrived at the White House
03:05and proceeded to party like it was 1829.
03:07Guests climbed on furniture, broke valuable items,
03:10and consumed an abundance of spiked drinks.
03:12What a scene we did witness.
03:15The majesty of the people disappeared.
03:18And a rabble, a mob, was scrambling.
03:22So much food was mushed into the carpets
03:24that it reportedly reeked for months afterwards.
03:26It could only be quelled when the attendees were lured outside with even more alcohol.
03:30It kicked off his administration with a bang
03:32and was somehow one of its least controversial moments.
03:35The riot deeply alarmed the Washington establishment.
03:38Festival of Drunkenness, Egypt
03:40According to ancient Egyptian lore,
03:42there was once a time when the sun god Ra
03:44saved humanity by pouring thousands of jars of beer
03:47mixed with the mineral hematite onto the earth
03:49in order to appease the goddess Hathor.
03:51He commissions the brewing of thousands of jugs of beer.
03:55To keep her satisfied,
03:56citizens threw an annual function known as the Festival of Drunkenness.
03:59Everyone attending was encouraged to be as raucous and loud as possible
04:03in order to ward off any potential negative energy
04:05and thus keep them safe from her wrath.
04:07And in this festival,
04:08there was a whole process of getting intoxicated
04:15that led you closer to God.
04:17The celebrations took place everywhere,
04:19from modest homes to grand temples.
04:21It may sound like an archaic frat party,
04:22but it was a period of pure reverence,
04:24rather than one of regular drunken fun.
04:26With Moot pacified and humanity saved,
04:29the glassy-eyed Egyptian revelers
04:31were free to nurse their headaches.
04:33Field of the Cloth of Gold
04:34France
04:35If only all conflicts could be handled this way.
04:38In an attempt to deepen a peace treaty
04:39between England and France,
04:41its leaders threw the Party of the Century.
04:42European kings Henry VIII and Francis I
04:45planned the Field of the Cloth of Gold,
04:47a festival spanning multiple weeks in 1520.
04:50This was Henry doing what Henry did best,
04:53putting on a show.
04:54He nearly bankrupted the English treasury.
04:57Each ruler brought hundreds of guests,
04:59bountiful amounts of food, games,
05:00and other luxurious amenities
05:01in order to show off to one another.
05:03The days were filled with friendly competition
05:05and live entertainment.
05:06At one point,
05:07Henry even challenged the French monarch
05:08to a wrestling match,
05:09only to lose shortly afterwards.
05:16Despite the jovial time,
05:17it didn't strengthen the relationship
05:18between the two countries.
05:19With England even declaring war on France
05:21the following year.
05:23So the Field of the Cloth of Gold
05:24is destined to be remembered
05:26just as a massive show of one-upmanship.
05:31Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI's Wedding, Paris
05:34Their marriage began and ended with death.
05:36To cap off the 1770 union
05:38between Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI,
05:40citizens partied for days on end.
05:42Though the wedding happened on May 16th,
05:44the festivities continued until the 30th.
05:46That night, a fireworks show was planned.
05:48It quickly took a turn for the worse
05:50when the pyrotechnics started burning
05:52the wooden platform they were being shot from.
05:54The hundreds of spectators,
05:55including the newlyweds,
05:56assumed it was part of the act.
06:04When they realized they were in danger,
06:05they all flooded the narrow street
06:07in an effort to escape.
06:08Many people were either caught in the stampede
06:10or pushed into the Seine.
06:11When the smoke cleared,
06:12132 people had perished
06:14and even more had been hurt.
06:16Jägermeister Pool Party, Mexico
06:17It should come as no surprise
06:19that an event dedicated to an alcohol brand
06:21would end in mayhem.
06:22Yet Jägermeister wasn't the main culprit
06:24behind a 2013 party in León, Mexico,
06:26coming to a sudden halt.
06:28As guests drank and made merry,
06:30organizers decided to add liquid nitrogen to the pool.
06:33When added to the chlorinated body of water,
06:35it created both the intended smoke effect
06:37and a toxic cloud of gas.
06:38The latter was exposed to the attendees,
06:40which caused eight people to become ill
06:42and even pass out,
06:43with one even falling into a coma.
06:44Local authorities are investigating the incident
06:46to determine whether charges are going to be filed.
06:50It took the company's advice
06:51to consume their drinks ice cold to a new level.
06:53In this house,
06:55you only drink Jägermeister ice cold.
06:59Bal des Ardons,
07:00aka Ball of the Burning Men, Paris.
07:02Following a breakdown
07:03and a vicious attack on his own men,
07:05it was decided that Charles VI
07:07shouldn't be exposed to stress.
07:08This led to a string of ongoing parties,
07:10including a 1393 masquerade.
07:12Six men, including Charles himself,
07:14dressed up like wild men of the woods
07:15and danced for the crowd in costumes
07:17covered in flammable materials
07:19like flax and linen.
07:20At one point during the crazed performance,
07:22a drunken man arrived with a torch
07:24and set one of the dancers ablaze.
07:26Though the king was saved,
07:27others weren't so lucky.
07:28Four men burned alive
07:29and several other party goers
07:31were injured attempting to save them.
07:33Needless to say,
07:34the event didn't help the ruler's mental state,
07:36with his episodes occurring
07:37more frequently afterwards.
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07:53Coronation of Nicholas II, Moscow
07:57What was intended to be a celebration
07:59of new leadership ended in sheer tragedy.
08:02The coronation of Nicholas II
08:03and his wife,
08:04Alexandra Feodorovna, went fine.
08:06But the same couldn't be said
08:07for the following festivities
08:09planned for civilians.
08:10Several theaters and bars
08:11were constructed along with dozens
08:13of tables laden with gifts.
08:14By the early morning on May 30th, 1896,
08:17hundreds of thousands of people had arrived.
08:19Gossip soon circulated
08:21that there wasn't enough food to go around
08:22and that people would be given gold as gifts.
08:24The Tsar's munificence as little father
08:27was to be demonstrated to all
08:29with gifts of enameled mugs,
08:31food, and drink.
08:32Everyone rushed forward
08:33so as not to miss out,
08:35resulting in a huge crowd crush.
08:36I have to record with great sadness
08:39that about 1,300 people were trampled.
08:43Over a thousand people perished
08:45and even more were injured,
08:46all while other unknowing guests partied on.
08:49The catastrophe.
08:51Commemorated in a Moscow cemetery
08:52was in no way Nicholas's fault.
08:55But he, as the new Tsar,
08:58carried the blame for the terrible events
08:59of the 18th of May, 1896.
09:03What's the craziest party you've ever been to?
09:05Let us know in the comments below.
09:07The screaming,
09:08the mismanagement,
09:11he was terribly upset.
09:13This is crazy.
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