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So this weekend is homecoming weekend at my university (Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada). The city where my school is only has 100,000 people, and a lot of the area around the school are basically student-only neighbourhoods and so it's a perfect setup for something crazy.
Homecoming is a time for the yearly really big football game (vs who I have no idea as I didn't go) where our 8000-seat 'stadium' actually fills up for the only time during the year. It's also a time for old graduates to come back and party and for really old graduates to come back for 10,20,25 or whatever year anniversaries.
It's also an excuse to party like there's no tomorrow. The parties start the night before and the streets are literally filled with drunken people. There were multi-keggers all across campus the night before, with some even running out of beer by 11:30 because they were so packed. In the morning of the Saturday of, starting as early as 8am, many people will have house pancake & beer parties with tons of people open to all. This is followed by a continous day of drinking mixed with the football game. At night of course is where the real crazyness happens.
Traditionally there is one street which is mostly 1st and 2nd year students living in rented houses which hosts the absolutely craziest parties. This street even has things like running their own olympics sometime near frosh week (with such events as old appliance toss) which is incredibly well organized. Last year 6 of the houses banded together and with their common backyard they hired a band and had a 20-keg party. It got so crazy that the police came in and shut it down, and this year the school planned a seperate free concert (with none other than Metric and Billy Talent) to try and deflect off the crowds. Even the police were out in full force with riot gear, guys on horses and so on.
Of course all their attempts were in vain. What followed was quite possibly the craziest university party I'd ever seen. For about a 4-block radius from the center street of partying (the street is only about 2 blocks long) there were endless students all over (this is a university of only about 15,000 students). After about 10:30 the police gave up trying to stop people from walking on the road and they instead cordoned off a 4-block area and closed the streets. Of course it was possible to get inside via alleyways and so on so the inside was jammed pack to the brim with drunk students and alumni, drinking on the streets with parties at each house. I'd never seen anything like it, with thousands upon thousands of students just going absolutely crazy, throwing bottles everywhere and all completely drunk. At around 12:30am some students managed to flip over a car (some idiot parked on the street), then over the next three hours managed to reflip it over and over for a total of 8 times. People were running around with carparts over their heads from the gutted hulk which had people jumping on it like some crazy mob while drinking. At this point there was so much broken glass on both the road, the sidewalk, the front porches and the grass that anyone without good shoes must have been hurting.. I'd say there was safely an inch of broken glass covering everything.
Meanwhile the police were still trying unsuccessfully to stop it, and they even had riot police popping speed pills to go ballistic on the students. The cops had bottles hurled at them. The horses they were riding on had bottles hurled at them. But then people started hurling bottles at what was left of the car. At this point gas started leaking out, and people cleared out. Then someone must have threw a cigarette at the car because it lit on fire and started blazing away.
It was without a doubt the craziest party I'd ever seen...
Anyone else have any good stories?
Homecoming is a time for the yearly really big football game (vs who I have no idea as I didn't go) where our 8000-seat 'stadium' actually fills up for the only time during the year. It's also a time for old graduates to come back and party and for really old graduates to come back for 10,20,25 or whatever year anniversaries.
It's also an excuse to party like there's no tomorrow. The parties start the night before and the streets are literally filled with drunken people. There were multi-keggers all across campus the night before, with some even running out of beer by 11:30 because they were so packed. In the morning of the Saturday of, starting as early as 8am, many people will have house pancake & beer parties with tons of people open to all. This is followed by a continous day of drinking mixed with the football game. At night of course is where the real crazyness happens.
Traditionally there is one street which is mostly 1st and 2nd year students living in rented houses which hosts the absolutely craziest parties. This street even has things like running their own olympics sometime near frosh week (with such events as old appliance toss) which is incredibly well organized. Last year 6 of the houses banded together and with their common backyard they hired a band and had a 20-keg party. It got so crazy that the police came in and shut it down, and this year the school planned a seperate free concert (with none other than Metric and Billy Talent) to try and deflect off the crowds. Even the police were out in full force with riot gear, guys on horses and so on.
Of course all their attempts were in vain. What followed was quite possibly the craziest university party I'd ever seen. For about a 4-block radius from the center street of partying (the street is only about 2 blocks long) there were endless students all over (this is a university of only about 15,000 students). After about 10:30 the police gave up trying to stop people from walking on the road and they instead cordoned off a 4-block area and closed the streets. Of course it was possible to get inside via alleyways and so on so the inside was jammed pack to the brim with drunk students and alumni, drinking on the streets with parties at each house. I'd never seen anything like it, with thousands upon thousands of students just going absolutely crazy, throwing bottles everywhere and all completely drunk. At around 12:30am some students managed to flip over a car (some idiot parked on the street), then over the next three hours managed to reflip it over and over for a total of 8 times. People were running around with carparts over their heads from the gutted hulk which had people jumping on it like some crazy mob while drinking. At this point there was so much broken glass on both the road, the sidewalk, the front porches and the grass that anyone without good shoes must have been hurting.. I'd say there was safely an inch of broken glass covering everything.
Meanwhile the police were still trying unsuccessfully to stop it, and they even had riot police popping speed pills to go ballistic on the students. The cops had bottles hurled at them. The horses they were riding on had bottles hurled at them. But then people started hurling bottles at what was left of the car. At this point gas started leaking out, and people cleared out. Then someone must have threw a cigarette at the car because it lit on fire and started blazing away.
It was without a doubt the craziest party I'd ever seen...
Anyone else have any good stories?
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