Iron Maiden: Riot In Rio. Well, Ok It Was Bogota, Columbia.
March 9, 2009 by Scott
Americans riot over Guns N’ Roses. Columbians riot over Iron Maiden. How foolish does that make us look? When you have 111 Columbians that didn’t or couldn’t buy tickets to see Iron Maiden, things heat up. I imagine there was actually more people than that and they only arrested 11 people.
The report said that about 25,000 people attended the Saturday evening concert in Simon Bolivar Park, “however, the embarrassing acts perpetrated by a group of malcontents who wanted to enter without tickets” ruined the social scene in the area around the venue.
They even said a Columbian police officer was injured to the point where he had to have reconstructive surgery on his face. I guess I can understand people wanting to see Iron Maiden because they don’t tour the South Americas much, but damn, let’s be a little civilized about it.
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