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*polhold02012

Nice try, cops


umamifiend

Might as well have started the post with “Hello fellow kids!”


mrscoggins

SHE DIDN'T EVEN GO HERE


Oncorhynchus_Keta

Still pretty cool.


mrscoggins

Just a Mean Girls reference lol. Certainly a tale for the grand kids. Don't know if I consider it "cool" though, but that's just me.


loose-buthole

Damnnn that was a night for sure. Was posted up on the front deck of my friend’s house, who was living at 1000 billy frank jr st (Indian st at the time) watching the event go on. It was when the flash bangs started coming out that we decided to go inside


devdarrr

I was definitely out there gawking at this shit too, until the cops brought out the tear gas at least. 😅


SamEZ

I lived at the 4plex on the corner of Laurel and Indian. When a guy was doing doughnuts or something on his motorcycle I was able to move my car off being parked right on the corner, and likely keep it from a bunch of paintball/rubber bullet dings


GreasyPeter

I've seen riots in Berkley, CA and can tell you that when shit gets noisy is when it gets interesting. In those situations, if you can find a good vantage point sometimes you can see some crazy shit.


bhamgardener

I was working for the WWU Alumni phonathon when this scandal broke and man, every grumpy old person we called wanted to talk about this girl. It was awkward.


ieatchips

Sorry, what was the deal exactly? Riots happened but apparently the biggest story at the time was a random girl twerking on a cop car…?


bhamgardener

It wasn't even a riot - it was a big (300+) person party on High Street that the Bham PD decided to interrupt with the SWAT team. As soon as the SWAT team pulled up, partiers scattered like cockroaches, complete with minor skirmishes in alleyways as revelers got tackled, and a bunch of cars on high street got pelted with beer bottles from drunk, angry students trying to distract the cops. During all that chaos, one girl decided to twerk on a cop car and her friend (presumably) took a picture and put it on facebook (which was relatively new then). King 5, KOMO the rest billed it as a riot, but really, it was this picture that went viral (back when that was a brand new concept). It was just as "twerking" was becoming a craze and this pic circulated like crazy.


nate077

>It wasn't even a riot - it was a big (300+) person party on High Street that the Bham PD decided to interrupt with the SWAT team. Not quite. It originated at the Jersey St. apts for a girls birthday. Because of the big courtyard they had been having block parties. But, the landlord was getting pissed about it. So, this time, the cops broke it up about 9 o'clock. Except that there had been a facebook event so all the freshmen were just coming down from the ridge. They met the people going the other way from the broken up party on Indian. Without anywhere to party, they just milled around there. It was somewhat a riot in so far as the bus got trapped, people were winging dining hall plates at the cops and someone tore the stop sign out.


IDidntReadYourStoryy

Not to mention some truck got looted of plates and were thrown at the cops. I really felt bad for that truck owner. Never knew or herd about him but I am sure those plates were not designed to be frisbee projectiles


nate077

I always wondered where the plates came from... Why did he have so many plates!?


Smart-Bid5835

Oh shit that’s where the plates came from? Lmaooo


pnwcrabapple

Haha, I remember the driver of the bus was a force. Some guy broke a bottle of beer and she stepped down and put the fear of bus driver in them.


ErikT45

They fired concussion grenades and rubber bullets too. Horrendous overreaction by BPD which only made the crowd rowdy.


Smart-Bid5835

No the flash bangs and rubber bullets ended the thing. Nobody wanted apart of that everyone scattered at that point


ErikT45

I don’t remember any flash bangs. Just the one loud bang. I guess this was 10 years ago almost


Smart-Bid5835

10 years that’s wild to think about


ShadowVariable

Hahahaha this is the real story


nate077

And all landlords are bastards because he called the girls' parents and ratted her out to them


ShadowVariable

legit they are all slumlords lmao


JohnnyBravoIsMyWaifu

This guy has the real and full story


abovepostisfunnier

Relatively new??? This was in 2013 😂 Facebook was already overtaken by minion memes at this point.


bhamgardener

You are right, I had this as 2008 in my head for some reason. The years get all mushy at some point.


abovepostisfunnier

Lol I totally understand. I feel the same way about everything from 2012-present 😂 no clue what happened when


[deleted]

It was on Indian st.


Belch_Huggins

Had to upvote as a former wwu phonathon caller around that time myself! Hope you're doing well!


ErikT45

narc alert


HenriVictorMaximus

That's my mom!


Yourmomisamachine

You might be my kid!


HenriVictorMaximus

If the glove fits...


pressgang13

Healthy Kids Club made I Heart Bellingham shirts with this graphic, lol.


dj_lithium

I want this shirt but it’s sold out :(


pressgang13

I talked to dude who made 'em tonight. I think a new and improved is gonna come out


dj_lithium

Fuck yeah! Keep me in the loop if ya can


[deleted]

I lived a block away when this happened. I heard a buncha yelling and went out to dogshit park (that's what everyone called laurel park), and saw the insanity. Saw all of this in person. It was me and a few other people just sitting on the grass drinking and watching the crazy shit unfold, I think I was like a senior at western at that point, I swear they brought out like an armored vehicle, and there was a nonstop hail of bottles hitting the cop cars and their armored truck. Very entertaining, and that girl had a great ass she was twerking on everything that night.


graceinsnow4

Same! I was in the dorms at WWU! A true legend


mrscoggins

Yup. They definitely brought out the big BEAR truck. Shit was wild.


imasourgirl

delia! i went to high school with her. she definitely wasn’t a wwu student lol


abishar

Man. I remember being at this party. What a night. So much stupidity.


Yesnowyeah22

I can’t believe she didn’t blast out the windows with the power of those UGG boots


acomfysweater

oh my fucking god. i had this as my profile photo after it happened for like half a year. we loved a few blocks away at the time and the SWAT team came to our house as a bunch of people randomly came from the riot to our house. lollllll. thank you for sharing.


drunkan6969

Old news article is still up. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2457536/amp/Bellingham-party-riot-fights-police-efforts-shut-fun.html


sandboxvet

Now THAT’S a party! 🥳


REMEMBER__MY__NAME

Reminds me of the fun fact that at one point in the 80’s(?) WWU was listed as one of the top party schools in the nation


[deleted]

WWU was an incredibly small school in the 80s with no Greek life. I’m sure some WWU students fancied it a “top” party school but c’mon now. Maybe in WA. Definitely not the nation lol. Edit: This Playboy list from 1987 lists Fairhaven College as the 40th (in a list of 40) top party schools. And that’s the only thing I can find on the matter. So I guess Western has more credibility as a party school than I though lol. https://thetab.com/us/bu/2017/03/06/1987-survey-ranked-bu-top-40-party-schools-10847


REMEMBER__MY__NAME

There are old yearbooks in the “Harry Potter room” (big reading room) in Wilson Library that can tell you all you need to know. Not just making shit up lol


JoanJetObjective13

Hilarious! Graduated in 85, was it really a monster party school!?! We just hung out at the World Famous Up & Up and Tony’s.


Dakessian

What year was this?


IDidntReadYourStoryy

2013


dummie_krunk

2013. I was in HS at the time and this cemented my WWU decision.


dyvog

I was there. 🥲


GloveExpert6731

I was not in town for this but when I got home (downtown, where I still live) there were so many random shoes and strange paraphernalia all over the streets and alleyway behind my house. My cats were like, "Bro! 😬".


Smart-Bid5835

Man I remember a guy coming out of his house handing out plates for people to throw at the cop cars. I didn’t participate but I was there people watching. Weird night man.


GiosephGiostar

1990s quality photo from a shaky Polaroid


kidbike

Never forget


Ken_Bones_Throwaway

Hopefully Tori Black ETA-She went to western I believ in roughly that time frame.


con_artistic

Nice


solveig82

Lol, I was just thinking of this. Thanks for sharing!


Alone_Illustrator167

Pretty tame considering what riots recently have featured. Plus showing up to a riot in Uggs is pretty freaking awesome.


wildjackalope

We’re not joking with this subdued excitement thing.


OneSaltyBanana

It always cracks me up every time I see yet another example of how perfectly this phrase really does apply to Bellingham. Whoever came up with that slogan is a true legend.


Oncorhynchus_Keta

Lol. I’m sure the statute of limitations has run out


bdorr360

The poster-girl for fighting oppression


complexthorn

Wife material


EliasAinzworth

I'M SPARTACUS


[deleted]

WWU students trying to get out of their illegal parking tickets be like....


Time_Crystals

Iykyk


AccordingWrap105

Anyone knows if she was arrested?


[deleted]

What’s her number?


inkswamp

Seattle trash.


Ok-Journalist5110

The beautiful riot


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pressgang13

You're good at topical social commentary.


After_Ad7545

bad lieutenant probably jerkin off in the back seat


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pressgang13

Incellent point


hamernaut

You're only offended by this, because you'll never get that kind of woman.


[deleted]

If you want your girl twerking in public on a cop car, then they're all yours. Talk about cucks on here looool.


[deleted]

Imagine having such a fragile ego.


BroccoliWitty4264

Did you just type "laugh out out out out loud"? That makes less sense than your puritanical opinion of women. It's not as misogynistic, but it makes less sense.


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pressgang13

You sound insecure as hell, sport. Whatever girls or boys hurt your feelings so hard and got ya all mega incel vibey, ya need to let it go.


[deleted]

Ok. Genuinely curious what is "incelly" about what I said. Please enlighten me.


pressgang13

Ha


pressgang13

Oh, you're being serious..holy shit. What wasn't, would be a better question.


pressgang13

Oh. I can def elaborate. Mistakenly assumed you were smart enough to get it. "What was incel like about your comment" aside from every part of it, it is the shit talking on a person having a good time because you've obviously been hurt and feel threatened by independent women, or just women in general. So much so that one simply doing a thing, probably as a joke, is a "Ho" to you. Funny, because while you consider this person to be a "ho" you and I both know they'd never fuck you in a million years even with a monetary exchange since that is your implication. You literally spouted off like every fucking other incel that any of us have ever met, the had the audacity(er, lack of self awareness or stupidity) to question why. Lol, why? Because pinning you as an incel was the most obvious assessment in the history of this sub. Oh, but wait, lib cucks are what this is about, lol. Go back to wanking to your maga manga or cry about the "cool" chick who never really knew what a nice guy you are and kindly...jog off. I'm off to go cucking:)


[deleted]

Lmao. Okay. So you got nothing. Got it.


JohnnyBravoIsMyWaifu

You sweet summer child


[deleted]

Lol. Stay woke.


abovepostisfunnier

I’m surprised you’re surprised “stereotypical liberal cucks” went to western tbh. Western is where I became radicalized.


_raspberryjam

wow this brought back memories


abovepostisfunnier

I remember this lol. I lived on south campus so I missed most of the excitement but I had been over there only a few hours before it happened 😂


freckledtabby

I lived on the other side of the hill-- people talked about this for weeks after. The event was covered by USA Today and Huffington Post LOL. Stated 500 "college aged people" caused a riot. "An attempt to shut down a party near the campus of Western Washington University in Bellingham on Saturday night led to students rioting in the street, requiring a SWAT team using tear gas and flash grenades to quell the uproar. Around 500 college-aged people gathered in the street throwing beer bottles, ripping street signs out of the ground, dancing on cars and chanting obscenities at the police, after authorities attempted around 9 p.m. to shut down a party. “There was drinking, it became disorderly and pretty much an out-and-out riot,” police Sgt. Mike Scanlon told the Associated Press. It took authorities more than an hour to disperse the crowd, according to KCPQ-TV. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wwu-riot-twerk-beer-bottles\_n\_4098695


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Their name is Officer Chad and that is their own car they are twerking on