Bieber Fever Leaves Eight Injured

2010-04-26 by taylormemer | 99 Comments
Justin Bieber had intended to perform a free show in Sydney's Circular Quay earlier today, only to be disrupted by a crowd-crush where eight people had to be treated for minor injuries; many others had to be treated for hyperventilation. The show, which was organised by broadcaster Channel Seven and their early morning program 'Sunrise' defended their preparations for the show claiming that they "hired the best security you could imagine", but admitted that they underestimated the sheer scale of attendance.

The combination of superstar + free show meant crowds comprised mostly of shrieking teenage girls gathered in abundance early the previous night, determined to catch a glimpse of the 16 year old's three song performance. Despite the overwhelming attendance of Sunrise's security force and police, the crowd of over 4,000 became uncontrollable, and forced its way through set barriers and defied all police requests for order.

The decision to cancel came when the crowd surges became of a safety concern, with the police stating that the lack of parental supervision led to the situation becoming out of control. Deputy Commissioner Dave Owens said "There were a number of parents down there (but) I would question why there weren't a larger number of parents" further going on to say "We had 12, 13 and 14-year olds (alone) at 3 and 4am in the morning. They were being crushed up against the barrier." Both the police and Channel Seven denied that their (lack of) organisation led to the hysteria, citing the crowd's disobedience as the offender, "They wouldn't abide by our directions. They left us with no option".

Setbacks aside, Bieber did perform one song "Baby", behind the glass facade of the Sunrise studios. He later stated on twitter that he was "just as disappointed as everyone else".

ABC News Items:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/26/2882762.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/26/2882428.htm

Tagged: Justin Bieber

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8bit
April 26th 2010
3317 Comments


lol.

Looka
April 26th 2010
48 Comments


Who knew that 14 year old girls could be so br00tal? BMTH fans should take note.

Titan50
April 26th 2010
4588 Comments


HAHA

MUNGOLOID
April 26th 2010
4554 Comments


crazy bitches

like a cat
April 26th 2010
133 Comments


damn it, i read "Bieber Fever Leaves" and got excited.

Nikkolae
April 26th 2010
6950 Comments


beiber fever ftw

TheStarclassicTreatment
April 26th 2010
2910 Comments


Who knew that 14 year old girls could be so br00tal? BMTH fans should take note.


I hope to God that was some sort of joke. The Bring Me The Horizon reference, that is.

PanasonicYouth
April 26th 2010
7413 Comments


didn't this already happen once?

btw another perfect example of why YOU DON'T FUCK WITH THE BIEB

FadeToBlack
April 26th 2010
11043 Comments


yet another reason why bieber needs to be executed

Relinquished
April 26th 2010
50123 Comments


︻╦╤─ ------------------------> justin bieber

FadeToBlack
April 26th 2010
11043 Comments


pretty sure causing minor injuries to eight people, as well as hyperventilation, is punishable by death

Parallels
April 26th 2010
10216 Comments


lololololololol

Steerpike
April 26th 2010
1861 Comments


The number of headlines about Leave it to Bieber are screwing up my determination to not give a shit about the little bastard. Especially since I also misread the headline and thought we could say goodbye to this trend.

LepreCon
April 26th 2010
5482 Comments


He's looking ever so thug in that picture.



He gives me a headache, does that count as him injuring me?

JAV
April 26th 2010
3545 Comments


Watch out for the Bieber pit.

Relinquished
April 26th 2010
50123 Comments


Especially since I also misread the headline and thought we could say goodbye to this trend.


That will take a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong while

PanasonicYouth
April 26th 2010
7413 Comments


why's everyone hating on the bieb man
he's so talented

ThePalestMexican
April 26th 2010
2816 Comments


The combination of superstar + free show meant crowds comprised mostly of shrieking teenage girls

.....not gonna lie, I should've been there

Klekticist
April 26th 2010
1464 Comments


"︻╦╤─ ------------------------> justin bieber"

you win.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
April 26th 2010
31889 Comments


love the title.

taroo
April 26th 2010
2126 Comments


*slow sad music and a slide show showing sick people starts* Americans all over the world are being infected by this terrible disiese known as Beiber Fever. Thousands of americans are catching the disiese each week. Please help us find the cure and bring back america. Donate you time and money, and help families all across the world fight off Beiber Fever.

Donate to: 1-800-Beiber-Cure

Bleekill
April 26th 2010
832 Comments


Let those bitches die for the beeb.

JoeJonas1997
April 26th 2010
16 Comments


Beiber pits > converge pits

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
April 26th 2010
31889 Comments


no longer love the title.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
April 26th 2010
31889 Comments


love the title again.

Yazz_Flute
April 26th 2010
19179 Comments


HEY ITS JOE JONAS!

ThePalaceOfWisdom
April 26th 2010
1134 Comments


hah Sunrise, Kochie is quite possibly the only human with a more annoying voice than Bieber, the two of them in the same place at once must've been borderlining on hell.

Deviant.
Staff Reviewer
April 26th 2010
32308 Comments


Can't wait until he comes to NZ, i'm gonna get my rolled up carpet and go Borat on him

cjgone
April 26th 2010
828 Comments


this is some seriously ****** br@@@@@tal ****** ****, Wow, **** yeah.

BrandonEngleMusic
April 26th 2010
42 Comments


Damn. I hate beiber SO much. Gah. I was in Greely, Co just this last week and met a guy who said he hated that he looked like him. Direct quote "Fuck, every time I get called Justin Beiber, my life's meaning seems to get vaporized in a fiery ball of hate for that little bitch." Lol.

royscoop19
April 26th 2010
137 Comments


This is natural selection.

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
April 26th 2010
22503 Comments


It is officially a very sad world.

CushMG15
April 26th 2010
1810 Comments


Shoulda busted out the teargas and riot gear.

Bow2LeperMessiah
April 27th 2010
225 Comments


Bieber should've covered F*** the Police! Imagine how stirred up things would have been after that?

Bieb mosh!!

VonManHead
April 27th 2010
179 Comments


That picture almost made me fall out of my chair with with terror, he's so intimidating.

EasternLight
April 27th 2010
2711 Comments


hahahaha whoa

BSX
April 27th 2010
1650 Comments


"We had 12, 13 and 14-year olds (alone) at 3 and 4am in the morning"

I wonder if R. Kelly was hiding in the shadows. . .

HeavyB
April 27th 2010
177 Comments


Peep that Mad Dog stare. Biebs is straight hood.

Asiatic667
April 27th 2010
4651 Comments


the fact everybody gets so wound up in hate for this kid shows how little and sad most peoples lives are

ThePalestMexican
April 27th 2010
2816 Comments


Just as disappointed as everyone else

So he is just in this for the ladies!

Matte
April 27th 2010
600 Comments


This is so pathetic lol.

ShadowRemains
April 27th 2010
28791 Comments


roflmaolol, this shit is hysterical...just rediculous...JUST REDICULOUS

Lempard
April 27th 2010
26 Comments


I'm gonna call in sick on account of Bieber fever.

bungy
April 27th 2010
9014 Comments


8 girls between the ages of 11 and 15 injured, many more treated for hyperventilation, including one man who called himself David James Young.

Eclectic
April 27th 2010
3302 Comments


This is just pathetic on all counts.
Why is it that every news article on this site (apart from that Bob Dylan one from last year) that's about stupidity, just happens to center around Australia. Everyone remembers that one about Britney Spears being shit (that was a HUGE shock), and the one about the kid who got arrested for playing offensive rap music.
Name a few that happened in America, go for it, but those are the ones that immediately come to my mind when I think of articles about stupidity.

Seriously though guys, give Bieber a break. First of all, the success hasn't gone to his head, which, you gotta admit, is pretty good. Particularly for someone of his age. Second of all, he's a good singer, he's not the one that makes his music shit, its the producers that do that.

Aaron
April 27th 2010
690 Comments


Not gonna lie, I crushed a good two or three of them myself. Bieber can't take all the credit.

Captain North
April 27th 2010
6793 Comments


including one man who called himself David James Young.


Lolz. I'm just confused at the fucking parents letting them be there in the morning like that.

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
April 27th 2010
22503 Comments


Like parents know where their kids are and what they are doing nowadays anyway. I mean, they listen to Ke$ha's lyrics, do some googling & that's the end of it.

Captain North
April 27th 2010
6793 Comments


Dude, 12 and 13 year olds? I would have thought parents have a fair grip over them, they're not even really teenagers yet. Oh well, me and my bubble.

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
April 27th 2010
22503 Comments


Trust me Tom, I'm with you. But you'd be (unfortunately) surprised.

Eclectic
April 27th 2010
3302 Comments


I mean, they listen to Ke$ha's lyrics, do some googling & that's the end of it.

Still scares the shit outta me, despite it being common practice.

Deviant.
Staff Reviewer
April 27th 2010
32308 Comments


Preparing for NZ invasion, so gonna steal me a Beiber

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
April 27th 2010
22503 Comments


I know. It gets worse with every decade. Imagine when we're having kids!

Eclectic
April 27th 2010
3302 Comments


Jesus, as much as I don't want this to happen to my kids, something tells me they're going to defy me because every other kid is getting it because their parents are fuckwhits.


DaveyBoy
Emeritus
April 27th 2010
22503 Comments


Exactly. In a decades time, kids will have tattoos by the time they are 12. They'll just look at all of their role models on tv... No, on their laptops.

So says Grandpa Davey.

ThePalaceOfWisdom
April 27th 2010
1134 Comments


I'm gonna beat my kids if they're slutty, fat, listen to the rap music, don't like the original power rangers, are vegan, enjoy the newest season of scrubs, think neighbours and home & away are good and support nationalism.

That ought to cover all the problem zones.

Eclectic
April 27th 2010
3302 Comments


The world is changing Davey, and I don't want to change with it.
Well, let's clarify that a little bit.
I like how the world is now, and it can be improved upon, but not in the way the next generation is going.

Eclectic
April 27th 2010
3302 Comments


BJ has most of the issues up there.
Only one problem dude, everyone else will think you're an old fart who can't adapt and is stuck in a world that no longer exists.

po0ty
April 27th 2010
704 Comments


New metal genre- biebcore

ThePalaceOfWisdom
April 27th 2010
1134 Comments


Thing is Michael there's a very effective method of getting kids to do what you say without seeming like an authoritarian. You just need to convince them that their future will be greatly improved by doing what you want them to do. It's legitmately that simple, it's how I was moved from never studying and rarely doing homework to being at uni and getting high grades. You show your kids a roadworker , then you show your kids a doctor and ask them which one they think they should be if the answer is roadworker... ass kicking, until they get it right.

Transient
April 27th 2010
1520 Comments


i am legit going to beat the shit out of my kids

TheStarclassicTreatment
April 27th 2010
2910 Comments


Like parents know where their kids are and what they are doing nowadays anyway


One of the most stupid things I've ever heard.

Eclectic
April 27th 2010
3302 Comments


One of the most stupid things I've ever heard.

No actually, the only reason I don't get that with my parents is because they're relatively strict (i have to call home every hour on the hour and if I don't they'll call me and get pissed off). Otherwise there's usually a huge communication barrier between parents and kids nowadays, I see it quite often with some of my mates.

TheStarclassicTreatment
April 27th 2010
2910 Comments


To suggest that parents (on a general level) don't know where their kids are and what they're doing 'nowadays' is ridiculous. Especially when talking about kids camping out for a concert, suggesting that the kids crept out and their parents didn't even know! (which may have been the case for SOME, admittedly)

Youth culture is barely any worse than it was say ten/twenty years ago, I'd be willing to bet everything I have the average parent is pretty aware of what their child is doing and where they are, even if they choose not to act on such knowledge.

ThePalaceOfWisdom
April 27th 2010
1134 Comments


To suggest that parents (on a general level) don't know where their kids are and what they're doing 'nowadays' is ridiculous.


Really? When I was underage and in highschool I'd often tell my parents I was staying at my friends house and head off to open house parties nowhere near the place I was staying. Nearly everyone I went to school with did that. So, I'd say a lot of parents think they know where their kids are, but not where they actually are.

Eclectic
April 27th 2010
3302 Comments


I see what you're saying, but I think this shows that parents aren't as aware as we think. If you leave your 12 year old child with 5000 other people at 4am in the morning, that shows gross negligence. From my experience, that did happen 10 years ago, but not to this extent. If it did then I apologize and I count this as a wake up call for the parents of Australia (perhaps even the world).

bungy
April 27th 2010
9014 Comments


"Jesus, as much as I don't want this to happen to my kids, something tells me they're going to defy me because every other kid is getting it because their parents are fuckwhits."

Yeah, my community could seriously use more eclectics. Props dude I agree.

Dogget
April 27th 2010
781 Comments


oh my god thats really bad! Imagine if the crowd had gotten all the way through to him, like if a super hyped up mob managed to break through and get to him, it could be really dangerous all the grabbing and pulling, seriously imagine if someone else organised a similar event and didn't hire any security, little guy could get hurt or something.

Plutonio
April 27th 2010
474 Comments


One of the most stupid things I've ever heard.
One of the most stupid things I've ever heard.

fr33convict
April 27th 2010
11723 Comments


I AM sick today. I should ask the doctor if I have Beiber Fever.

Skimaskcheck
April 27th 2010
2364 Comments


Setbacks aside, Bieber did perform one song "Baby"...

He only did one song?

paradoxycles
April 27th 2010
22 Comments


Australian pre teen/teenagers. LOL

MUNGOLOID
April 27th 2010
4554 Comments


BRING BACK THE POWER RANGERS!!!!!!!!

Slipping Away
April 27th 2010
1260 Comments


beiber is aligned with the juggaloes, he must be destroyed

MUNGOLOID
April 27th 2010
4554 Comments


HIS BRAINWASHING AND PUPPETRY OF THE YOUTH SHALL BE NO MORE!!!!

playswithpassion
April 27th 2010
292 Comments


Don't fuck with the biebs...

jesusjuice1179
April 27th 2010
1784 Comments


i could think of something witty to say here, but instead i'll let the news speak for itself

Scoot
April 27th 2010
24290 Comments


I was hoping he was included in the injured.

8bit
April 28th 2010
3317 Comments


Baby... baby... baby.... OHHHHH.... *pause with guitar playing open strings in anticipation of breakdown* ...Alright lets get this pit going, I want the middle to open up from side to side and I want to see some bitches crying. LETS GO. Baby... baby... baby... OHHHHH

BSX
April 28th 2010
1650 Comments


Porygon is hardcore

AtavanHalen
April 28th 2010
17919 Comments


omg bungy came back just for me

That is the sweetest thing ever

JWT155
April 28th 2010
15053 Comments


Wonder if Davey's out of the hospital from this yet...

ShadowRemains
April 28th 2010
28791 Comments


"Baby... baby... baby.... OHHHHH.... *pause with guitar playing open strings in anticipation of breakdown* ...Alright lets get this pit going, I want the middle to open up from side to side and I want to see some bitches crying. LETS GO. Baby... baby... baby... OHHHHH"

Post of the day, right there, IMO


qwe3
April 28th 2010
21836 Comments


feiber beaver

JWT155
April 28th 2010
15053 Comments


Did your avatar fart that?

qwe3
April 28th 2010
21836 Comments


no it is an avatar how can an avatar fart

ThePalaceOfWisdom
April 28th 2010
1134 Comments


I don't think they can fart, but I hear they make terrible films.

DaveyBoy
Emeritus
April 28th 2010
22503 Comments


"Wonder if Davey's out of the hospital from this yet..."

Hey! I never reviewed his album. That was DavID.


botb
April 29th 2010
19937 Comments


that picture makes me want to set him ablaze.

AtavanHalen
April 29th 2010
17919 Comments


You all realise that photo of Justin was taken when he was nine years old?

Eclectic
April 29th 2010
3302 Comments


^really?

AtavanHalen
April 29th 2010
17919 Comments


Yep. So unless anyone is proud to post pictures of themselves from 2003...

Eclectic
April 29th 2010
3302 Comments


Wow, there actually isn't that much difference...

AtavanHalen
April 29th 2010
17919 Comments


It's because he looks so damn young already.

Eclectic
April 29th 2010
3302 Comments


That's why there's speculation that he won't go through puberty, he's 16 and shows no signs that he's aged much past 10.

Eclectic
April 29th 2010
3302 Comments


Wait, correction on that, apparently he's admitted that he can no longer hit some of the notes on "Baby" because his voice is cracking.

AtavanHalen
April 29th 2010
17919 Comments


Ahaha, for realz? Maybe they'll lower the key down a half-octave when he performs live?

Eclectic
April 29th 2010
3302 Comments


^That's what he says they do now

JWT155
April 29th 2010
15053 Comments


As long as his appearance doesn't start cracking (like gaining 50 lb's or some shit) I think he's set for a while.



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