Top credits Director Mark W. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Add Image. Top cast Edit. Keith Hale. Dennis Jones. James Raines. Mike Smith. Mark W. Storyline Edit. Starting at Midnight on Friday and continuing till Sunday, it has been a college tradition passed down through the years where it is considered normal to wake up in the middle of the night and begin drinking for a tradition no one seems to know the origins of.
Add content advisory. Young men can be seen fighting, trashing vehicles by jumping on their roofs and punching out windows, and tossing debris, beer bottles and other objects into the street.
One group pushes a car sideways down the street before a man jumps on top and breaks feet-first through its sunroof. Another video shows a television being heaved off a second-story balcony, soon followed by an apparently empty keg of beer. Mounted police and officers in riot gear had cleared the area after an hour, but not before two officers were slightly injured. At least three cars were damaged. I think there are some great ideas being tossed around about getting students more involved and invested in the community, and as some have pointed out that's a two-way street.
If all else fails, bring in the fire breathing pterodactyls. Jeremy "soccer hooligans" are a stereotype of the past. American Idiots, unfortunately, are a fact of the present. I wish we'd follow others' leads and clean up our act. So folks are driving up from NYC for this? I guess that means our riots are more stupid than theirs. Stand proud, Albanians.
I'm posting this so all my Facebook friends back in San Francisco can see what we do for amusement in the Cap District. It's not our generation..
This is just an example of children who haven't fully left the care of mommy and daddies nest. They don't know too much about the real world They don't understand consequences for actions. They feel that they are invincible.
I'm 22 and I've learned that this ins't the case, the hard way. These kids along with man others are in for a rude awakening.
So there were hundreds of students trying to flip cars, throwing furniture, breaking windows, and throwing beer bottles at officers? Why only 6 arrests then? Also, please don't force us taxpayers to pay for damages due to these "children" acting the way they did. Force themselves, their schools, their parents, whomever, to foot the bill. We the taxpayers should not have to pay for their idiocy and childish behavior. And how about next year, get more police out on the streets, doing patrols and whatnot, to ensure that problems like this don't arise next year.
And a curfew would be a great idea as well. People we are dealing with strong island here and jersey. Anyone that's seen mtv's jersey shore knows these people are morons. SUNY albany needs an enima. I find it hilarious that they've scheduled the clean up day almost a full week after the actual destruction. Are they secretly hoping someone else cleans it up before then?
I've been reading the news stories about this, but this is the first time I've seen a video. It makes me sick. There was no reason for this whatsoever. A large portion of Albany's low level felonies and misdemeanors can be attributed to inebriated college students, but major crimes such as violent assaults are committed by both students and local residents.
I spent four years in Albany and lived in the supposed "student ghetto," as I have seen it mentioned here, and anyone who has lived there can attest that the problems that arise are more than college student conflicts.
Much like other towns in upstate New York, such as Troy, the political socioeconomic lines are sharply drawn. The "student ghetto" is highly segregated along racial and financial dimensions and Albany reflects the plight of most blue collar cities that have seen their status decline in a post-industrial society.
I do not absolve individual participants of their deplorable actions. My belief is that mob mentality, diffusion of responsibility, and general disregard for others, allows such cowardly acts like these to manifest.
My hope is that the individuals in the video are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but individual arrests does not get to the deeper roots of this dilemma; the mechanisms that permit such actions to occur.
It has always been my belief that if the city government wanted to eradicate these types of episodes they could, but for some reason they refrain. Much of this problem could be combated with stricter law enforcement concerning underage drinking and increased presence of the state liquor authority. Additionally, several landlords in the area care little about their properties and tenants further contributing to a culture free of responsibility.
If no one cares, no one will. This incident took place on Hudson Street, one block over from Elberon, which bears greater resemblance to a third world nation than a United States city.
During my tenure, Elberon was home to multiple drug related shootings. I was stabbed by residents in the area with no avenues for employment and general self-improvement. These issues go deeper and, solutions exist, but demand action and accountability. So many fraternities in that area have been terrorized and suspended in the last decade that it's actually driving the party into the streets, where it clearly doesn't belong.
Outdoor riot parties are not an Albany tradition, so maybe if they just left the fraternities alone, the parties would be safely contained and out of sight, like they have been since the s.
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