B5 (Boy Band) Concert Sparks Girl Frenzy At Shopping Mall

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Amber Andrews, 13, got to Brookdale Center at 10 a.m. Saturday with one thing on her mind -- seeing the rapidly rising R & B boy band B5 give a free concert. After waiting for more than three hours, Andrews and approximately 2,500 people, mostly girls between 10 and 17, finally got their wish.

But just as B5 finished its first song -- "You Got Me" -- and started the second, an enthusiastic fan jumped on the stage. Within seconds, the crowd surged forward and onto the stage, sparking what one witness called "total chaos."

Witnesses and law enforcement officials said several girls were stepped on, the band was whisked to safety, and the Brooklyn Center mall was cleared and closed for more than two hours.

Four people were taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale where they were treated for minor injuries and released. Five others were treated at the scene.

Brooklyn Center police officials said no one was arrested.

"I was right in front," said Andrews of Minneapolis. "Girls were running on stage, security guards were throwing them off. The girls were tearing off clothes."

It got so bad that shopkeepers near the stage area in the mall's Marshall Field's Court pulled young children who had been separated from their parents into the safety of their stores.

"Things were falling off the stage, girls were falling off the stage, girls started fighting. People were falling down and getting hurt," said Theresa Curtis, who works at a store in the mall. "We took a few girls into our store that were missing parents."

Asked if there was enough security at the event, Shelley Klaessy, the mall's marketing director, said more than 20 people were working the concert -- 10 mall security guards and at least 11 Radio Disney personnel.

"I think we pulled together the right amount," Klaessy said.


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1. When I heard about it, I thought M.A.T.C.O.M. was the reason

(BTW, for the record, Brookdale was a regular hangout for me as a wee lad. At the time, it was the closest mall to where I grew up. Consequently I spend several hundred dollars in quarters at the video arcade there as a teenager).

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2. "Proactive (pimple popper) Commercial causes girl fight in a House of Mass

Consumption"

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Here in spend-a-lot land we've witnessed the hidden meaning of our era. Thousands of pubescent girls have desended upon this middle of the road town to purchase the opportunity to purchase the last known can of Proactive Solution. The Simpson sisters and Diddy, formerly known as P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Popadizzle Pop and Sean, are on hand to M.C. the event, and of course to take tickets to make sure that no unpaying consumer gets through the doors.

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The first known trouble was in the ticket booth were the girls purchased the tickets that gave them the chance of purchasing the can 'o goop. Clumps of hair were found at the scene, smatterings of blood were seen smeared like a trail not unlike the yellow brick road that leads to the wizard. But inside among the paying customers is were the real modern travesty has occured. No known survivors were found at this writing.

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Jainie McFinklestein a local mall rat provides this first hand account: "It was like a civil or war or something. I mean like girls were fighting girls. Cliques were dividing among themselves like I mean, what ever! My best friend stabbed me with a shiv that she fastened out of a Hot Topics hanger and some Altoids. What a mean girl. I mean...

"Well what caused the pubescent uprising?"

"Billy Jean said her bid on the goop was higher than that other girl. you know that one from the school in the Valley. Whatever. Trailer trash. Well anyway we had an alliance. But everyone turned on everyone and so we stampeded the stage in an attempt to steal the bottle."

"Oh my what happened?"

"Diddy and jessica Simpson pushed Ashley in front of the gathering hoard. And disappered with the bottle. Pimply assholes!"

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This was the scene just moments ago at what is now being dubbed, "The Battle of the Mall of America: Proactive Solution gone Wild." The citizen's have been reduced to fist fights over furbies, cookie cutter music, and chemical compounds. Proof positive of what a great land we live in. This land is your land. This land is my land. From the mall over there, to the one down the street...
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