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Surprise: 'Rafting Gone Wild' Event Devolves Into Oar-Wielding Brawl

Surprise: 'Rafting Gone Wild' Event Devolves Into Oar-Wielding Brawl

With a name like "Rafting Gone Wild" what could possibly go wrong? Organizers of a 4,000-person river floating event found out at the second annual get-together on the American River in California. There, the lazy river-like trip devolved into a drunken brawl party that featured, naturally, people using oars as weapons.

"By 5 p.m. ... dozens were fighting on the shores of Ancil Hoffman Park, beating each other with paddles or rocks and hurling stones at fire and rescue boats, officials said," according to the Sacramento Bee.

"It started out fairly reasonable, but as they day went on, the drunkenness and the fights increased with them," Sgt. Randy Lewis, a Sacramento County park ranger, told the Bee.

"There are so many intoxicated people it's like ridiculous," 20-year-old Marisa Taylor added.

Pictures on the event's Facebook page support that:

While video has yet to surface of the actual brawl, there is one on YouTube showing a different disagreement between rafters. That one appears to be over littering in the river (CONTENT WARNING for language):

According to KCRA-TV, officials made about a half dozen arrests and about 15 river rescues. Believe it or not, that's actually a little more subdued than last year, when approximately a dozen were arrested and officials had to rescue about 100 people.

(H/T: Yahoo!)

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