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Mar. 17, 2013 11:09pm Erica Ritz

University of Dayton, Ohio St. Patricks Day Festivities Become Full Scale Riot

(Photo: Screen Shot/Dayton Daily News)

St. Patrick’s Day festivities at the University of Dayton in Ohio Saturday night evolved into a full-scale, out-of-control riot involving more than 1,000 people, the Dayton Daily News reports. Police from 10 jurisdictions were forced to to head to the institution of higher learning to tackle the issue, finding students dancing on cars and throwing an inordinate number of beer bottles.

The Dayton Daily News has all the information:

After more than two decades without a major St. Patrick’s Day incident, the university had a violent “disturbance” that left broken beer bottles and 11 damaged cars, including a police cruiser, on Kiefaber Street, according to a university official.

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University of Dayton Police were dispatched sometime between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. in response to a fire alarm, Rizvi said. When officers arrived, they were met by a large crowd who threw bottles at them. University police called the Dayton Police Department for assistance.

The Miami Valley Regional Dispatch Center received a call around 4:44 a.m. related to a large crowd throwing glass bottles. Shortly before 5a.m., police from law enforcement agencies in Dayton; Five Rivers Metro Park; Huber Heights; Kettering; Miami Twp.; Montgomery County; Moraine; Oakwood, Riverside; Trotwood and Vandalia responded to the 400 block of Kiefaber Street near Lawnview Avenue.

No injuries were reported, but an individual not affiliated with the university was arrested and is expected to charged with underage drinking and public intoxication, said Rizvi.

“We weren’t out there trying to cause trouble,” said Matt Kolb, a 19-year-old UD student. “We were out there trying to have fun. The cops caused the crowd to go a little bit bananas.” [Emphasis added]

(Photo: Screen Shot/Dayton Daily News)

The university suffered no lasting damage, but was forced to alter its scheduled activities Sunday.

“Out of concern for safety, large non-University-sponsored gatherings will not be permitted today,” the university said in a statement, according to WDTN2. “While the vast majority of students were not involved in this incident, the behavior is unacceptable and disappointing…Students also are expected to comply with our Community Standards of Behavior, and will be held accountable for non-compliance.”

The website “Total Frat Move” even concluded: “I never understood the whole rioting thing, which typically involves destroying the place or area where you live, but I guess it’s like an unstoppable snowball of bad decisions and heightened emotions, and people feeding off each other.”

Watch video from the scene to get the entire picture, via WDTN2 News:

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Advection
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:36am
Crazy southerners…oh, wait….

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- rambosharley
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:48am
  “The cops caused the crowd to go a little crazy”? I’m sure it had NOTHING to do with all the liquid that was in the broken beer bottles… No way! lol
  
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- GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 8:58am
  Too bad they didn’t do the country a favor, and burn down Notre Dame.
  
  Screw all religions, esp catholicism.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:12am
  Groundzero…another one inappropriately touched by a priest, liked it, and now is pissed at all Catholics.
  
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- R1dd1ck
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:13am
  Apparently GroundZero is not aware that Dayton is in Ohio and not Illinois. Obviously failed in school as well.
  
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- Corsair
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:26am
  And Notre Dame is in Indiana.
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:39am
  U of D is a Catholic school.
  Aren’t the Catholics the ones who helped elect Obama?
  
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- Cogent1325
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:35pm
  Tan anyone? Tax NO ONE.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:44pm
  LOL…there is no Catholic vote. Most Catholics in the US aren’t even Catholic but I fail to see why they continue to call themselves that.
  
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phander88
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:29am
When the Philadelphia Philles won the World Series in 2008, the same thing happened at West Chester University. Thousands of college students turned over cars, sent on car on fire and tore down light posts. It was awful. This is the generation that will be leading us in the not so far off future. May God have mercy on our country.

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ThunderBoldt
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:52am
Beer doesn’t kill people, drunk people kill people – prohibition of alcohol didn’t work but prohibition of guns will for sure. I mean, do you really need a 40 ?

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- Bum thrower
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:16am
  What’s that got to do with a bunch of drunks outta control? “Gun control” works? For whom? The State!!
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:38am
  Bum thrower
  I believe thunderbolt was being sarcastic… (*S)
  
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- NewCreationDave
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:42am
  Wow Bum, you can’t follow his point? You’d better get some offline practice before going live on these blogs!
  
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- DesdemonasCrew
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:40pm
  Actually, I need both 40′s. The .40 Cal S&W and the Colt malt liquor 40 oz’er.
  
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ChongRRMC
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:52am
Our future……

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HOOT_OWL
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:06am
I’m just glad no one was shot. The last thing we need is another song about four dead anarchist .

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Berbel73
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:01am
Ah yes America’s college universities, institutes of higher learning.

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:17am
  St. Patricks Day College full of Drunken Irish? nahhhhhhh
  
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- The Knave
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:48am
  racist!
  
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waspanglosaxon
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:53am
Like most holidays in ZOG today, St. Patrick’s Day is actually a leftwing holiday. It celebrates Ireland’s independence from British rule, Catholicism over Protestantism, etc. Personally, I always wear bright orange (the Protestant color) each and every St. Patrick’s Day!

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savagenatn
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:55am
yep the cops’ fault, and maybe bush’s too. They should have littered the place with tear gas

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- klg1956
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:05am
  I’m sure if they used tear gas the cops would have been suspended pending review and then, given their “retirement” walking papers when the college of elite theoretical thinkers disagree about using tear gas because it burns the eyes/throat. You can’t make rational decisions today to get an out of control situation under control because on Monday morning you’ve got the college eggheads of theory thinkers talking over their fresh brewed cappuccinos, Monday morning quarterbacking, instead of their asses out there on the front lines with the uncontrollable crowds, and the “elites” are smarter they can come up with a better decision to control the crowds AFTER the “renegades” are asleep in their beds, drunk out of their minds, after burning and destroying cars….maybe they could have held a “town hall” meeting during the riot, let out their grievances, and that would have kept the “drunken” idiots from turning into a bunch of private property destroyers….now if I were the College Prez, I would take the total cost of the riot destruction and bill every student, whether they were there or not, for the cost of the police, the cost of the destruction and the cost of the repair of what took place….therefore, redistribution of destruction, so they can feel what they voted for…and then I’d give them 30 days to pay or their grades will be Incompletes! That will keep another riot from happening because the responsible students will kick the crap out of future rioters
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:26am
Variations on the “the cops caused it” theme are the same excuse that’s proffered to the media when a teenage celebration gets out of hand over here as well.

All that they demonstrate with this specious and facile rationale is that they have not matured sufficiently to accept the consequences of their own actions.

That said; I remember my teenage years well and I’m not about to suggest that we were much different…

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- Rayblue
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:14am
  So you can identify with the youthful exuberance of todays schoolchildren.
  How you handle yourself today must be a delight to observe.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 3:57am
  An interesting take on my comment.
  
  How I handle myself today is socially rather boring. I’m a solo father of two small children who is struggling to maintain a small business. As a consequence, I join my friends in the pub about once or twice a year. As I said – socially boring, but the compensations are splendid.
  
  I try to be intellectually honest, so while I’m somewhat contemptuous of the “blame the cops” routine, I require myself to admit that I was also young once and have not lead a blameless life.
  
  Is that better?
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 5:49am
  @NZKIWI,
  I would suggest we all did a little over exuberance during our younger years only to find out what responsibility of ones own actions can be. You learn from your mistakes and mature to self responsibility and don’t blame others for your own mistakes.
  
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- Leader1776
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:41am
  @nzkiwi
  Your posts are always thoughtful. Now with tidbit of personal info its easy to see why ………….. very grounded. Your take on the youth of today is spot on. Being a bit older and witnessing the start of this out of control behavior in the 50s-60s, this is an acceleration of how some kids roll today. The police experience less personal injury beating the heads of abortion clinic protestors.
  
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- Rayblue
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:40pm
  How thoughtful. Must be wonderful to be so mature in your own way.
  And so much patting on the back to help your sweet and lollypopish brightness guide the way.
  
  That better, sugarplums ?
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:48pm
  Much. Thank you.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:54pm
  That was a very kind remark, Leader, but we seem to have annoyed our friend…
  
  :)
  
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- Rayblue
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 5:56pm
  No contention then ?
  Don’t group me in with every herd you felt good about running around with in your youth. It isn’t everybody that’s so stupid to have to have approval by peers when comparing yourself to mobs.
  
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wordweaver
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:15am
The Obama administration is blaming this on the Republic(ans) of Ireland.

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- klg1956
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:43am
  That’s funny!
  
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Tony Sanchez
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:46am
I love the “unstoppable snowball of bad decisions” quote. It reminds me of my life.
BTW, I hate that I have to log in every freaking time I want to comment. If you morons can’t figure out how to run a simple website, I’m leaving. Seriously, I love the content on “The Blaze” but the format ****** me off to no end. I’M SICK OF GETTING THE “YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN” MESSAGE!!!!!

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- kenboo1
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:16am
  Bye!!!
  
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- Desertcatn
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:32am
  I know what you mean, it is annoying to have to keep logging in; I love the Blaze but wish they had a better comment system.
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:56am
  The comment system is designed the way it is to make your comments easily traceable back to you. Just do a Google search of your handle, it’s all right there. Other sites comment areas are not indexed by Google, theblaze however is a completely different story. It’s the design of the comment section here that precipitates this.
  
  Obviously they want the comments here on record, which is fine by me, but people should be aware. I think it’s also why you have to log in all the time, better evidence that it was actually you that posted the comment.
  
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- marine249
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 2:10am
  tis a pain in the left butt
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:36am
  Kevin,
  That is because Google is nothing more than a giant spy agency for the federal govt. Anybody that works for Google is a traitor to their countrymen and will be held accountable.
  
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marine249
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:26am
part of the 47% of the 99%

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valleyfever
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:19am
Doesn’t it give you a warm fuzzy feeling to know that these are our future leaders?

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:25am
  “the cops caused the crowd to go bananas?” I WEEP for this generation. WEEP!
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:21am
  Yeah. We can see that the cops forced them to get “stupid” drunk!!! What’s wrong with just a little tipsy??? Why do college dumb a$$ students need to get “stupid”!!!
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:32am
  “and throwing an inordinate number of beer bottles”. Because throwing less than 40 bottles or so would be O.K.?
  
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- 1956
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:33am
  More like a warm wet feeling as I Pi$$ my pants thinking that these folks are the “up and coming” leaders of our country.
  
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- geeman
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 7:16am
  These pukes vote,l wonder who they voted for president. l was young once too but destroying stuff wasn’t that much fun,rather look for chicks.
  
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dannyo
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:02am
who are the white college kids from the institutions of higher indoctrination voting for these days…hmmm…haven’t they been voting enmasse barack hussein obama????

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sinner-saint
Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:02am
The police just need to drop these useless idiot uncivilized immoral animals. Stop messing with them and drop them in their shoes when they get out of control like this and destroy property. Brainless, clueless, retards.

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COFemale
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:58pm
Blame it on the police, what a douche bag student. How about blame the students who don’t know how to conduct themselves. What is wrong with people. Our world is turning upside down and it is all because of Liberals. They believe in no consequences. They are going to have a rude awakening when standing in front of God. Throw the book at them.

I hope the University kicks every student involved out of the school.

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- smokeysmoke
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:08am
  ya blame the police and not the copious amounts of alchol the students were drinking… this could be a case of chicken egg, tho, cause sometimes these things can quickly escalate, and alchol can mask what is going on and make people respond with hyper exaggerated emotions…. none the less i blame, dumb drunk kids who are problly 24
  
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- CatB
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:25am
  They will sober up when they start having to pay back all those student loans they are living off and using to party. Many of these students don’t even feel the need to get a part-time job while they are in school .. just keep fillng out the loan papers and then party …
  
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- TheBurningTruth
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 5:30am
  #CatB:
  
  I wish it were so, but this kind of mentality will just blame somebody else for THEIR student loans. The will see NO connection between lending and paying back. Nor will they see a connection between getting bloto drunk and being lucky to graduate with a degree in “communications”. They are a product of the Progressive Liberal K12 school system and only part of them will wake up later in life. Those will be the ones that will be paying huge income taxes for the programs they supported a liberal college kids (I won’t dignify them with the term “student”".
  
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Marsh626
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:40pm
Westerners of all races are becoming increasingly degenerate and trashy.

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- woodyee
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:54pm
  You can thank the godless and immoral Left…but I wouldn’t give them the time of day.
  
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louie louie
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:37pm
“and people feeding off each other”

It sounds like the beginning of a zombie apocalypse, but it fizzled out due to the lack of brains on campus.

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- 1956
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 6:28am
  Now THAT has me laughing….
  
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lel2007
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:30pm
SAINT Patrick just rolled over in his grave. Sad that a day dedicated to the patron Saint of Ireland would become a day of celebration for drunken crapulous pagans.

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:47am
  On the other hand, the Irish have never been known to show the slightest trepidation when faced with the “demon drink”. Have you ever seen the loyal Irish in full cry on St Patrick’s Day?
  
  Or on any other day, for that matter…
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 4:41am
  NZK,
  You are very quick with your keyboard commando insults of the Irish but I posit that you would not say that to their face.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 12:00pm
  It wasn’t an insult. I have Irish friends who own an Irish pub in town. I don’t see them much these days but St Paddy’s day is the highlight of their calender.
  
  They would not wait for me to point out their enjoyment of the festivities, they joyfully admit it to all their friends and customers.
  
  We’re all a bit older now, but there were some very big nights in years gone by, and I miss it a little bit…
  
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electroencephalographic
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:23pm
I call that alcohol abuse.

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:50am
  I agree. Spilling alcohol is definitely abusing all the loving hours that went into making it…
  
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pandora665
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:21pm
“The cops caused the crowd to go a little bit bananas”. Um not so much; try liquor, mob mentality, and stupidity were the major influences that led to the destructive incident.

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SUNTZU
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:21pm
No more assault bottles.
and a 6 pack only have 5 rounds.
and dont forget the background check.

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Stoic one
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:19pm
This is Mob Insanity, mixed with alcohol & drugs.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:23pm
  took corporal punishment and god out of schools…………yep it did good
  
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- spirited
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 1:33am
  Took a five year nephew fishing seventeen years ago
  
  He decided, instead, to watch a video (Toys –?) again.
  Not wanting to leave him alone in the cabin, he was given the choice (wink, wink) to go fishing with everyone –now, or watch the movie by himself.
  
  Without flinching, the little (adorable) rugrat said, “You can’t leave me alone. It’s against the law.”
  
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SUNTZU
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:15pm
I guess no one had a shotgun
Two rounds would have stopped them in their tracks.

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Soulphoenix
Posted on March 17, 2013 at 11:14pm
This is “out-of-their-minds” stupid. Being young is no excuse. It was extremely pathetic and a great example of what Washington called “liberty turned to licentiousness.” Bingo.

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