small band/huge wank
On Saturday night, the Boston-based band The Dresden Dolls played a show in Providence, RI, which got a little rough. Basically, there were a number of non-fans there, and also just a lot of drunken fans, and towards the end of their set a mosh pit broke out. As well as a girl passing out from feeling claustrophobic, one particular individual climbed onto the stage and dove into the crowd, even though nobody was paying attention to catch her. Luckily, she broke her fall ... on another girl's head. This girl had a seizure and ended up in the hopsital for five hours.

A number of people were pissed off about the (unprecedented) moshing and expressed this on dresdendolls lj community. Eventually the friend of the girl who had the seizures made a post about it, chastising the people who moshed and ignored those who were hurt, and asking for help to identify the person who injured her friend.

This was followed by a flurry of discussion, about half of the community sympathizing with her and another half basically tell her she and her friend was an idiot; there's nothing wrong with moshing; furthermore, there's nothing wrong with moshing at Dolls shows; and finally, if you don't like it, screw you, and you probably deserved to get hurt anyway. There's also one particular genius who seems to be completely enamored with the idea that it's impossible to get a seizure from a mere head injury unless one has "special needs". He's also one of those charmers who enjoys likening the totalitarian desires of people who don't want people crashing into them to a OMG! A Nazi regime!

Soon after, the person who was injured posts a thread as well.

And then that same genius boy is now deciding the whole thing was made upwhich pisses off the original girl so that she does a "I'm leaving!" post. Which is tremendously melodramatic, but everything about this wank is.

And in case you are wondering, I was at the concert and it did happen.