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Floating fracas: Hour-long brawl breaks out on cruise ship

<p>A mass brawl has broken out on a cruise ship heading into New York. However, it remains unsure if anybody will be charged.</p> <p>The brawl broke out on the dancefloor of a nightclub of the Carnival Magic cruise ship in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday the 28th of June.</p> <p>At the moment of the brawl, the ship was heading back to New York, but the exact location of the vessel will have a bearing on a criminal investigation depending on the jurisdiction of law enforcement it falls under. However, if it took place in international waters, it is possible everybody involved will get away scot-free.</p> <p>The NYPD has confirmed security on-board were unable to contain the fight and had to summon the Coast Guard. "Security onboard the boat attempted to de-escalate the situation and subsequently called for the Coast Guard," the police said in a statement.</p> <p>"The Coast Guard escorted the cruise ship to Pier 88, confines of the MTN Precinct. Uniformed personnel and Traffic Agents met the ship and the ship disembarked passengers without further incident".</p> <p>An eyewitness passenger Theresa James claims the fight began over a "threesome".</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Massive brawl breaks out in nightclub of Carnival cruise ship just off New York harbor. It started because someone got jealous over a “threesome”. The Coast Guard was summoned to escort the ship back to New York. <a href="https://t.co/2Xnljgi3O9">pic.twitter.com/2Xnljgi3O9</a></p> <p>— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1542467886223982592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2022</a></p></blockquote> <p>She said the fight lasted for an hour and stretched from the fifth floor to the first floor, involving up to 60 people.</p> <p>Carnival described the brawl as an "altercation".</p> <p>"Thankfully no serious injuries were reported and our onboard security team intervened."</p> <p>The brawl came at the end of an eight-day voyage, which went into various islands in the West Indies before heading back up the US east coast.</p> <p><em>Image: Shutterstock</em></p>

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Dramatic pics of huge brawl outside wedding reception

<p>Footage has emerged of the moment a wedding reception in Sydney's north shore descended into chaos, as guests became involved in a brazen fight.</p> <p>The video, which was uploaded to Reddit, shows dressed-up guests throwing punches in the affluent suburb of Mosman on Saturday night. </p> <p>A spokeswoman for NSW Police spoke to <a href="https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/wild-moment-brawl-erupts-outside-mosman-wedding/news-story/7053e194aad0997ecbe22f878690ada4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news.com.au</a> and said officers were called after reports were made of 30 guests becoming involved in a fight. </p> <p>“This is after a wedding. Not sure the context but the groomsmen and guests were fighting among themselves,” the person behind the camera said.</p> <p>In the now viral video, guests have taken off their suit jackets as four women and four men fought on the busy road, halting traffic. </p> <p>One male guest is seen throwing a woman to the ground before running after another guest. </p> <p>A separate fight, directly adjacent on the open highway side of the intersection, involved at least another dozen revellers. </p> <p>One man is seen on the ground in front of a stopped white car, prompting three others to rush over to check on him.</p> <p>Another man is captured on video with no shirt, and is seen grabbing someone from behind and hitting their head on the asphalt.</p> <p>Meanwhile, another man – who appears to not be a guest at the function or involved in the fight – attempts to direct traffic around the brawl. </p> <p>The police spokeswoman said that when police arrived, most of the guests had left the scene and “those remaining were reluctant to make a complaint”.</p> <p>“Following further inquiries, police last night [Sunday, February 20] spoke with a 26-year-old man who told police he’d suffered a broken nose as well as injuries to his face and ribs after being knocked unconscious during the affray,” she said. </p> <p>“Inquiries are continuing to identify those involved.”</p> <p>Users on Reddit were shocked by the footage, with one person commenting he that they work “at the Yacht Club next door” and “probably served those people drinks before the wedding”.</p> <p>Crime Stoppers have urged anyone who has any information about the incident to come forward. </p> <p><em>Image credits: Reddit</em></p>

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Woman left seriously injured in ALDI car park brawl

<p><span>A woman is recovering after being injured in a violent mass brawl at a supermarket car park.</span><br /><br /><span>Police say an argument that turned violent erupted in an ALDI car park off Garratt Way, Manchester, at 4 am on Sunday.</span><br /><br /><span>Officers found nearly 50 people scattered across the lot and a woman in her 30s left seriously injured.</span><br /><br /><span>It is alleged she was hit by a car, however her injuries are not life-threatening.</span><br /><br /><span>No arrests have been made but police who live in the area claim they heard screams coming from the car park.</span><br /><br /><span>One resident said he was woken up by loud noises as he tried to sleep.</span><br /><br /><span>"I heard shouting and screaming,” he recounted.</span><br /><br /><span>“I just thought it was normal things but then the screaming didn’t stop. I saw a lot of people in the parking lot screaming at each other."</span><br /><br /><span>The ALDI store remained open to shoppers the following morning however the car park was taped off as investigators searched the scene.</span><br /><br /><span>“Police were called at 4 am this morning (Sunday 15 August) to a report of a large fight involving nearly 50 people at a car park off Garratt Way, Manchester,” a statement from police said</span><br /><br /><span>"On officers' arrival, the group dispersed and a woman in her 30s was being treated in an ambulance. It is believed a vehicle had collided with her, and she suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.</span><br /><br /><span>"No arrests have been made and enquiries are ongoing."</span></p>

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Wild brawl at zoo leaves even the animals shocked

<p><span>A bizarre clip of families battling it out during a tour at a Chinese Zoo has gone viral, leaving viewers speechless.</span><br /><br /><span>The trivial argument between two tourists on Sunday led to a violent brawl that included at least six people.</span><br /><br /><span>Beijing Wildlife Park has said in a statement that the brawl included a woman and a young child.</span><br /><br /><span>The incident, which occurred in the gorilla area of the zoo, has received a number of responses after being posted to social media site Weibo.</span><br /><br /><span>A woman holding a toddler can be seen kicking another woman while she tries to fight off a third woman on the ground.</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">This biffo at the Beijing wild animal zoo between a couple of families prompted a statement from the zoo. It said the fighting left a deep impression on some nearby animals who copied the humans and had to be taught by staff that fighting isn’t good behaviour. 笑死我了😂 <a href="https://t.co/3X9KcsmSCR">pic.twitter.com/3X9KcsmSCR</a></p> — Bill Birtles (@billbirtles) <a href="https://twitter.com/billbirtles/status/1424312295589519362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><br /><span>Two men are seen wrestling in the background.</span><br /><br /><span>Bystanders watched the brawl in horror.</span><br /><br /><span>"They shouted at each other, tore at each other and many tourists and animals were watching. The two sides reached a settlement after mediation," a park authority said on WeChat, the Global Times reported.</span><br /><br /><span>The park said that some animals had never witnessed a fight between humans and “followed suit” later that night.</span><br /><br /><span>"Under the patient education of the keeper, [we believe] animals knew that fighting was not good," the park said, the publication reported.</span><br /><br /><span>Viewers said on Twitter that the footage of the fight is “pretty awful to watch”.</span><br /><br /><span>“It's a toss-up between what was more unexpected, the woman kicking the other woman and pulling her hair while holding a baby, or the man who jump-kicked the woman holding the baby,” one woman said.</span><br /><br /><span>“Not sure who learns from whom,” another person wrote.</span></p>

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Witnesses divided in conflict after flight attendant brawl

<p>A brawl mid-flight left a flight attendant missing two teeth and a passenger in jail, but those who witnessed it said that the situation could've been handled with more tact.</p> <p>The fight, which occurred on a Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to San Diego, was over a passenger refusing to wear a face mask over their entire faces.</p> <p>Passenger Michelle Manner filmed the incident and spoke to NBC News about it.</p> <p>“They ended up in a screaming match,” Manner said.</p> <p>“It ended with the flight attendant saying that she was going to call the captain.”</p> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"><iframe class="embed-responsive-item" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VGQBYlwZ08Y"></iframe></div> <div class="body_text redactor-styles redactor-in"> <p>“The gal who punched the flight attendant had asked, had said, ‘Get off me,’ ‘get your hands off me,’ ‘quit leaning on me,’” Manner said.</p> <p>“The passenger was incorrect by hitting her, but she was also in my opinion, provoked,” Manner said.</p> <p>“She had made like three requests for her to back up and she didn’t.”</p> <p>Footage of the fight emerged after the passenger, Vyvianna Quinonez, was jailed.</p> <p>She is seen jumping from her seat and attacking the attendant and is facing a felony count of assault inflicting great bodily harm.</p> <p><em>Photo credits:<span> </span></em><a rel="noopener" href="https://7news.com.au/travel/flight-attendant-loses-teeth-in-fight-with-passenger-but-passengers-are-divided-as-to-who-is-in-the-wrong-c-2951631" target="_blank"><em>7NEWS</em></a></p> </div>

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Cruise ship brawl “fuelled” by unlimited alcohol package

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A mass brawl on a cruise ship is said to have been fuelled by passengers believed to be over-indulging in a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“15 free drinks” offer that went horribly wrong. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two cruisers, a 41-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man, were arrested last Friday after a fight broke out on a cruise ship returning from a week-long journey to the Norwegian fjords.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Six people were injured and one eyewitness told </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7300469/YouTuber-41-one-two-people-arrested-mass-brawl-kicked-P-O-cruise-liner.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mail Online</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that they were left covered in blood after plates and furniture were thrown around the room. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two groups of passengers began arguing around 1:30am in one of the ship’s restaurants on the 16th floor. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One traveller described the experience as “Benidorm on Sea” as many passengers pay for the unlimited drinks package (15 drinks maximum between 6am and 6pm).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A female passenger said her and her son were awoken by the aftermath of the messy brawl. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“From the moment we embarked on the ship we found many of the other guests to be rude, have zero manners or respect for others,” she said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The boat was basically Benidorm on Sea with a me, me, me attitude. We found many people were there purely to drink as much as they could with their unlimited drinks packages.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">US-based maritime lawyer Jim Walker, told </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Times</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">that the cases he dealt with involved drink packages offered by a number of cruise companies. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Are we seeing a correlation between drinks packages and violence? Generally we are,” he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’ve had cases where passengers have been involved in bar fights and the alleged assailants have had a drinks package. They’ve said that they drank all 15 drinks, that they didn’t want to leave any money on the table.”</span></p>

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New details emerge from cruise drama

<p>Just when you thought the sorry saga couldn’t get any worse, <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/travel/cruising/2018/02/cruise-from-hell-passengers-reject-unacceptable-compensation-after-violence-breaks-out/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>new details of the Carnival Legend cruise drama</strong></span></a> which saw passengers stuck indoors as violence broke out, have emerged, and it seems like there’s more to this story than we thought.</p> <p><a href="http://www.news.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>News.com.au reports</strong></em></span></a> the group at the centre of the drama, which would go on to make news around the world for all the wrong reasons, consists of three families, “a large extended Italian family group with two sets of Italian grandparents, a Lebanese-Australian son-in-law and one Assyrian Australian friend.”</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">More than twenty members of the one family have been arrested, over a massive brawl on-board the Carnival Legend cruise ship. <a href="https://twitter.com/DougalBeatty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DougalBeatty</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/9News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#9News</a> <a href="https://t.co/0sbdYcKV1g">pic.twitter.com/0sbdYcKV1g</a></p> — Nine News Australia (@9NewsAUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/964401603607371776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2018</a></blockquote> <p>Media reports have <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/travel/cruising/2018/02/cruise-from-hell-passengers-stuck-in-cabins-as-violence-breaks-out/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>suggested that the cause of the initial drama</strong></span></a> was a group of “Aussie males” who stepped on the thong of an Italian-Australian female, which resulted in “niggling, pushing and shoving” ensued between the two groups.</p> <p>But reports have now revealed that the final clash between the family and security officers onboard was prompted by a staff ambush in one of the ship’s corridors.</p> <p>Damning video footage has been shared online, which shows young adults fighting with the ship’s pursers and other staff on deck, with women and men pushing and shoving.</p> <p>A spokesman for Carnival Cruises <a href="http://www.News.com.au" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>told News.com.au</strong></em></span></a> an investigation into the incident was already being undertaken by the cruise line.</p> <p>“An investigation into all aspects of the Carnival Legend cruise is currently being conducted and our intention is to allow it to run its course without further comment pending its completion,” he said.</p> <p>What are your thoughts? Do you think Carnival responded appropriately?</p>

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