Mar
28th
28th
Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico
“A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City. The next week, shaggy-haired emo teenagers were harassed again by punks and rockabillys in the capital, prompting police protection and a segment on the TV news. Most recently, a Mexican newspaper reported that metal heads and gangsters have warned Tijuana’s emo kids to stay away from the town’s fair next month.”
One of the strangest headlines I’ve read, and the article reads like something from the Onion, I swear.
One of the strangest headlines I’ve read, and the article reads like something from the Onion, I swear.
4:59pm