CRAZY THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT RIOTS

IN 532 AD A SPORT RIOT DESTROYED HALF OF

CONSTANTINOPLE AND KILLED TENS OF

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. IT LASTED SEVERAL

DAYS AND WAS CALLED THE NIKA RIOT

ZOOT SUIT RIOT WASN'T JUST A METAPHOR FOR

DANCING. IT WAS A REAL RIOT.

IN 1355 TWO STUDENTS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY

INCITED A RIOT BECAUSE THEIR BEER TASTED POOR.

THE MATTER WAS SETTLED IN FAVOUR OF THE

STUDENTS AND FOR THE NEXT 470 YEARS THE

TOWN COUNCIL HAD TO MARCH BAREHEADED

THROUGH THE STREETS EVERY YEAR (UNTIL ONE OF

THE MAYORS FINALLY REFUSED IN 1825).

FRED DURST, THE LEAD SINGER OF LIMP BIZKIT,

STARTED A RIOT AT WOODSTOCK '99 WITH THE

SONG BREAK STUFF. SEVERAL FIRES WERE

EVEN STARTED

IN 2005, THERE WAS A LARGE RIOT IN NORTH KOREA

WHEN THE NORTH KOREAN FOOTBALL TEAM

LOST TO IRAN.

DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, LINCOLN PASSED

LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWED PEOPLE TO PAY $300

TO GET OUT OF THE DRAFT. SINCE ONLY THE UPPER

CLASS COULD AFFORD THIS, THE NEW YORK CITY

DRAFT RIOTS FOLLOWED. THESE WERE THE LARGEST

CIVIL INSURRECTION IN AMERICAN HISTORY NEXT

TO THE CIVIL WAR ITSELF

THE FIRST RECORDED "MOONING" HAPPENED IN 66 AD

WHEN A ROMAN SOLDIER MOONED JEWISH PILGRIMS.

THIS LED TO A RIOT, WHICH LED TO A MILITARY

RESPONSE, AND WHEN THE DUST HAD SETTLED

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAD LOST THEIR LIVES

IN NEVADA, ANY DISTURBANCE WITH TWO OR MORE

PEOPLE IS CONSIDERED A RIOT WHILE IN THE

UNITED STATES AS A WHOLE, IT TAKES AT LEAST

THREE PEOPLE TO BE CONSIDERED A RIOT

IN THE UK, A CIVIL DISTURBANCE MUST INVOLVE AT

LEAST 12 PEOPLE IN ORDER TO BE LABELLED AS A RIOT