From Cleveland.com:
“GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio – A Saturday night house party on the 4000 block of Turney Road resulted in riots, police chases and seven arrests, police said.
Police responded to reports of a crowd of around 200 people crowding the streets and blocking sidewalks outside of a party around 9 p.m.
Officers used verbal orders and pepper spray to try to get the crowd under control.”
“Police later found out that the party was a birthday celebration hosted by a 33-year-old woman for her daughter. She faces no charges.”
“The crowd covered an area from Garfield Drive to McCracken Boulevard.
At one point, about 20 people ransacked Speedway gas station on Turney Road and stole food, police said.”
Curveball: This wasn’t a house party. As our friendly and not-racist Cleveland.com commenters pointed out, this get together was apparently held at “Rising Stars Academy of Cheer and Dance”.
So pretty much Project X meets My Super Sweet 16 with Bring It On as their waitress on their first date.
This is what their Facebook page looks like:
So basically 200 ish people, ranging in age from 14 to 33, were pissed off enough that they couldn’t get into one of those girls’ 16th birthday party that they started a full blown riot, jumped on cars, threw rocks through windows, cussed at police officers, caused said officers to use pepper spray and taze a 17-year-old and robbed a gas station. Did I get that right?
Now admittedly I’m not too familiar with the party scene in Garfield Heights nowadays but I gotta be missing something here. A large congregation of teenage cheerleaders are celebrating a 16th birthday party in an enclosed area and these 200 people wanted in on that? I mean I guess if you’re into choreography and migraines but that’s definitely not my bag. Why else would these people want to get into this party so bad? Is the Rising Stars Academy of Cheer running the biggest drug ring in the state of Ohio? I don’t know but I’m certainly not ruling it out.
And the people who are pissed that the mother isn’t getting charged with anything can take a flying leap. Her bad for throwing a birthday party for her daughter that was so awesome the entire city wanted to go.
PS What a story this will be for this girl to tell later in life. “I wasn’t too popular in high school.” “Sames, except that one time where a couple hundred people started a riot when my mom wouldn’t let them in my birthday party.”
PPS Whatever happened to Cheri Oteri? She was Kristen Wiig before Kristen Wiig. Simma down na? Just good clean humor.
Bottlegate 