On Friday, it was the grand opening of Fat Tuesday, a New Orleans-style daiquiri bar inside the Resorts World Casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York.
@FatTuesday is officially open for business @ResortsWorldNYC. Join us today during our #grandopening! pic.twitter.com/4Xe2H9EZXq
— Michelle Marie (@MichelleMS917) April 3, 2015
Well that certainly looks like a fun time! I’d love to indulge in a frozen concoction, maybe a pina colada or a Miami vice.
Fast forward several hours, and this is what Fat Tuesday looked like.
@fat_tues_day pic.twitter.com/hzpy3fcuAt
— Maserati Maine (@maserati_maine) April 4, 2015
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Yeah, I’m just gonna go to my local T.G.I. Friday’s and get a mudslide and some boneless Sriracha wings.
The colossal brawl involving up to 400 people saw the entire casino turned into a battle zone. The massive free-for-all featured several individuals engaged in all-out fights that that erupted around 11 p.m. on Friday. The combatants threw chairs into the crowd and used very dangerous stanchions as weapons.
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Grand opening, grand closing.
Well there has to be an understandable and justifiable reason to cause THIS extreme level of violence.
From the NY POST:
The violence was sparked by people angry about the long wait for daiquiris, law-enforcement sources said.
Oh.
Three people were arrested and there were “a lot of gang members involved,” a police source said. Many casino patrons and security officers suffered minor injuries and one police officer suffered a hand injury.
“The safety of our patrons is Resorts World’s top priority, and there is absolutely no room for this kind of behavior at our facility,” a casino spokesman said in a statement. “We are reviewing all aspects of this unfortunate event and are fully committed to taking steps to ensure similar acts do not take place ever again.”
The narrator/videographer who refuses to film correctly by simply turning his phone, aptly describes the scene of the destruction by saying, “look at the reminiscence.” Look at all the reminiscence indeed.
[NYDN]