yeah that’s a sane and mature response
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
dumbest reasons people have rioted
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at the dumbest most ridiculous
reasons why crowds of otherwise rational
humans lost their minds however we’ll be
excluding sports riots because they
deserve a list of their own number 10
Szechuan sauce it’s debatable if these
can actually be considered riots but we
had to include them October 7th 2017
will forever be the day that fandom
culture went a little too far on this
day McDonald’s plan to bring back their
Szechuan sauce due to demand from Rick
and Morty fans as the discontinued sauce
was the basis of multiple jokes
throughout an episode this promotion for
the Disney film Mulan where they where
they they created a new sauce for the
McNuggets called Szechuan sauce and it’s
delicious
and then they got rid of it and now it’s
gone throngs of fans showed up at
various Mickey D’s to get their hands on
the sauce but supply was limited some
fans who ended up without a sauce packet
wound up chanting and causing scenes
resulting in the police being called to
at least one establishment number nine
disco
in 1979 the Chicago White Sox had a
brilliant plan hire shock-jock Steve
Dahl to host their promotional disco
demolition night
we’re in baseball fans would bring a
disco record and the album’s would be
literally blown up after the first game
of the doubleheader the explosion went
off as planned but up to 7,000 people
stormed the diamond afterwards and
proceeded to rip up the grass steal the
bases destroy the batting cages and
start a massive bonfire in centerfield
riot police were eventually called in to
disperse the crowd burn baby burn
number eight rival actors people in the
19th century took their plays seriously
by the mid 1800s there were two notable
Shakespearean actors working in New York
an American Edwin Forrest and a Brit
William Charles McCready forget the back
my soul is too much charged with blood
of thine already Lovelace is a muscle
arguments stemmed over who was the
better thespian and the two actors
became proxies for larger issues
including American nationalism and class
tensions what is
if his chief good and market of his time
be but to sleep and feed a beast no more
those tensions boiled over and the Astor
Place riot occurred during a McCready
performance when forest fans pelted the
theater with stones
the state militia was called and fired
into the crowd killing over two dozen
rioters number seven nylon stockings
nylons were first made available in 1940
by American company DuPont and were an
immediate and massive success with women
however the nylon material was soon
needed overseas for the war effort
resulting in a shortage the riots began
after the war when nylon stockings were
reintroduced to the eager American
public due to high demand and low supply
there was pandemonium in stores as women
knocked down shelves and physically
attacked each other to get their hands
on a pair of nylon stockings this is the
1940s version of the Szechuan sauce
riots only more violent number 6
Gingerbread beer and pretzels the
incident known as the hut disco tragedy
occurred in Moscow on May 30th 1896 an
enormous crowd of up to 500,000 people
had gathered on kadinsky field to
celebrate the coronation of nicholas ii
but a rumor spread that there wouldn’t
be enough free food like gingerbread
beer and pretzels the crowd grew
incensed and a police force tried to
quell the growing tension to no avail
a stampede began as people tried to flee
the field and escape the police
resulting in approximately 1300 people
being trampled to death people were poor
and beer is delicious but it’s not that
delicious number 5 a hot air balloon by
the 1860s aranaut Henri Coxwell was a
bit of a celebrity so it was no surprise
when tens of thousands of people turned
up to watch Coxwell ride on his balloon
Britannia then a rumor spread that
Britannia wasn’t as big as expected and
throngs of paying customers charged the
basket fearing the madness at hand
cock swelled deflated the balloon but
then in
raged customers ripped Britannia to
pieces set the basket on fire and even
attempted to attack cocks well he was
rushed away unharmed – some ripped
clothing a writer would later claim that
he had quote never witnessed such
barbarous ignorance number four grilled
cheese in addition to the obvious
horrors of incarceration it’s a
well-known fact that prison food is
awful so we can see how prisoners became
emotional over the warm deliciousness of
a grilled cheese a massive fight broke
out in New York’s infamous Rikers Island
after the Crips wouldn’t let the
Trinitarians gang use a hot plate to
cook a grilled cheese the fight lasted
for 45 minutes due to understaffed
prison officials and it involved chairs
mop handles hot water and sharp
instruments resulting in a dozen
injuries when it was over more than 30
prisoners received either additional
criminal charges or time and solitary
confinement for their involvement number
three
straw hats back in the 1920s it was
normal for men to wear straw hats in the
summer however there was an unwritten
rule that men stopped wearing those hats
by September 15th if they didn’t they
were subject to ridicule things turned
nasty on September 13th two days before
the deadline when a group of hooligans
knocked the hats off dockworkers and
started a fight the brawl ended up
spilling onto Manhattan Bridge and
halting traffic the next day more
violent troublemakers took to the
streets with sticks and nails and beat
anyone they saw wearing a straw boater
many arrests were made talk about some
Mad Hatter’s number two nutella no the
tastiness of nutella is not just a meme
as it turns out people feel very
strongly about the delicious treat and
will resort to violence to get their
hands on it in January 2018 a French
supermarket chain cut their price of
Nutella by 70 percent this resulted in
droves of angry citizens crowding the
stores and breaking items the police
were called when the crowds turned
violent with customers being punched in
the head and receiving wounds bad enough
to draw blood no matter where you go it
often seems as if saving money comes
before empathy simple
human decency and personal safety number
one Cabbage Patch Kids Christmas
shopping is always stressful Christmas
shopping in 1983 was hell on earth this
was the year of the Cabbage Patch Kids
craze when thousands upon thousands of
adults descended on the malls of America
to secure their child that season’s
hottest toy
however supply was painfully low which
as you can imagine
resulted in numerous acts of violence
there were reports of enraged crowds
people hitting each other with baseball
bats and lots of trampling and even
fully grown adults ripping dolls out of
kids hands the Cabbage Patch riots of
1983 remain the finest example of
consumerist hysteria in America do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
dumbest reasons people have rioted
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at the dumbest most ridiculous
reasons why crowds of otherwise rational
humans lost their minds however we’ll be
excluding sports riots because they
deserve a list of their own number 10
Szechuan sauce it’s debatable if these
can actually be considered riots but we
had to include them October 7th 2017
will forever be the day that fandom
culture went a little too far on this
day McDonald’s plan to bring back their
Szechuan sauce due to demand from Rick
and Morty fans as the discontinued sauce
was the basis of multiple jokes
throughout an episode this promotion for
the Disney film Mulan where they where
they they created a new sauce for the
McNuggets called Szechuan sauce and it’s
delicious
and then they got rid of it and now it’s
gone throngs of fans showed up at
various Mickey D’s to get their hands on
the sauce but supply was limited some
fans who ended up without a sauce packet
wound up chanting and causing scenes
resulting in the police being called to
at least one establishment number nine
disco
in 1979 the Chicago White Sox had a
brilliant plan hire shock-jock Steve
Dahl to host their promotional disco
demolition night
we’re in baseball fans would bring a
disco record and the album’s would be
literally blown up after the first game
of the doubleheader the explosion went
off as planned but up to 7,000 people
stormed the diamond afterwards and
proceeded to rip up the grass steal the
bases destroy the batting cages and
start a massive bonfire in centerfield
riot police were eventually called in to
disperse the crowd burn baby burn
number eight rival actors people in the
19th century took their plays seriously
by the mid 1800s there were two notable
Shakespearean actors working in New York
an American Edwin Forrest and a Brit
William Charles McCready forget the back
my soul is too much charged with blood
of thine already Lovelace is a muscle
arguments stemmed over who was the
better thespian and the two actors
became proxies for larger issues
including American nationalism and class
tensions what is
if his chief good and market of his time
be but to sleep and feed a beast no more
those tensions boiled over and the Astor
Place riot occurred during a McCready
performance when forest fans pelted the
theater with stones
the state militia was called and fired
into the crowd killing over two dozen
rioters number seven nylon stockings
nylons were first made available in 1940
by American company DuPont and were an
immediate and massive success with women
however the nylon material was soon
needed overseas for the war effort
resulting in a shortage the riots began
after the war when nylon stockings were
reintroduced to the eager American
public due to high demand and low supply
there was pandemonium in stores as women
knocked down shelves and physically
attacked each other to get their hands
on a pair of nylon stockings this is the
1940s version of the Szechuan sauce
riots only more violent number 6
Gingerbread beer and pretzels the
incident known as the hut disco tragedy
occurred in Moscow on May 30th 1896 an
enormous crowd of up to 500,000 people
had gathered on kadinsky field to
celebrate the coronation of nicholas ii
but a rumor spread that there wouldn’t
be enough free food like gingerbread
beer and pretzels the crowd grew
incensed and a police force tried to
quell the growing tension to no avail
a stampede began as people tried to flee
the field and escape the police
resulting in approximately 1300 people
being trampled to death people were poor
and beer is delicious but it’s not that
delicious number 5 a hot air balloon by
the 1860s aranaut Henri Coxwell was a
bit of a celebrity so it was no surprise
when tens of thousands of people turned
up to watch Coxwell ride on his balloon
Britannia then a rumor spread that
Britannia wasn’t as big as expected and
throngs of paying customers charged the
basket fearing the madness at hand
cock swelled deflated the balloon but
then in
raged customers ripped Britannia to
pieces set the basket on fire and even
attempted to attack cocks well he was
rushed away unharmed – some ripped
clothing a writer would later claim that
he had quote never witnessed such
barbarous ignorance number four grilled
cheese in addition to the obvious
horrors of incarceration it’s a
well-known fact that prison food is
awful so we can see how prisoners became
emotional over the warm deliciousness of
a grilled cheese a massive fight broke
out in New York’s infamous Rikers Island
after the Crips wouldn’t let the
Trinitarians gang use a hot plate to
cook a grilled cheese the fight lasted
for 45 minutes due to understaffed
prison officials and it involved chairs
mop handles hot water and sharp
instruments resulting in a dozen
injuries when it was over more than 30
prisoners received either additional
criminal charges or time and solitary
confinement for their involvement number
three
straw hats back in the 1920s it was
normal for men to wear straw hats in the
summer however there was an unwritten
rule that men stopped wearing those hats
by September 15th if they didn’t they
were subject to ridicule things turned
nasty on September 13th two days before
the deadline when a group of hooligans
knocked the hats off dockworkers and
started a fight the brawl ended up
spilling onto Manhattan Bridge and
halting traffic the next day more
violent troublemakers took to the
streets with sticks and nails and beat
anyone they saw wearing a straw boater
many arrests were made talk about some
Mad Hatter’s number two nutella no the
tastiness of nutella is not just a meme
as it turns out people feel very
strongly about the delicious treat and
will resort to violence to get their
hands on it in January 2018 a French
supermarket chain cut their price of
Nutella by 70 percent this resulted in
droves of angry citizens crowding the
stores and breaking items the police
were called when the crowds turned
violent with customers being punched in
the head and receiving wounds bad enough
to draw blood no matter where you go it
often seems as if saving money comes
before empathy simple
human decency and personal safety number
one Cabbage Patch Kids Christmas
shopping is always stressful Christmas
shopping in 1983 was hell on earth this
was the year of the Cabbage Patch Kids
craze when thousands upon thousands of
adults descended on the malls of America
to secure their child that season’s
hottest toy
however supply was painfully low which
as you can imagine
resulted in numerous acts of violence
there were reports of enraged crowds
people hitting each other with baseball
bats and lots of trampling and even
fully grown adults ripping dolls out of
kids hands the Cabbage Patch riots of
1983 remain the finest example of
consumerist hysteria in America do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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