Well, the answer is, a lot.

YouTube is full of such clips including a viral one of Nickelback walking off stage when audience member kept throwing stuff at them.

There's another case where Sharon Osborne is alleged to have distributed eggs to audience members so they could pelt Iron Maiden.

 

 

Sharon thinks she's being smart in her revenge but she's opening a pandoras box that will come back to bite Ozzy and many other performers.

 

Sadly in today's world, there are plenty of people who think a$$holes are cool and entertaining.

Hell, one was even elected in a nearby nation.

 

In the old days, cunts were mocked and shunned. Now, we make them famous.

 

this… hits or likes on social media someplace. The crazies are now pestering store workers about products they don’t like, videoing their “rant”

 

Honestly it seems like a lot of people forgot how to behave over the pandemic. Combine that with the rise of extreme entitlement and the "Freedom means I can do whatever and say whatever I want without consequences" movement. I see this sort of shit every day - while driving, at the store, at events, etc.

 

Combine that with the rise of extreme entitlement

I love how you said that, because it's what I've heard a lot of times from some people, some who "used to be" close to me. It seems they confuse liberty with anarchy, at least in my eyes.

I have said it before and I'll say it again, a good ass whoopin/discipline discipline and manners taught by parents is good for ya. You just don't realize it until you're much older.

 

I think "social" media is also part of the problem. It's like tv we had, only a thousand times worse... (if you see the wrong kinda things)

 

Even worse. Now, any idiot can put themselves “on TV”. You just have to do something stupid/antisocial enough.

 

When people live too much in their heads, they can weave some dumb personal narratives that can make some irrational, and sometimes unpleasant, behaviour seem important and heroic to them. Too much persistent and continuous immersion in social media tends not to be very good for people, but we tend to live in a sort of psychotogenic culture in general these days. Social media simply repeats and validates it. Not that people actually become psychotic, but rather too much "living in your head" can make some truly reprehensible and outrageous behaviour seem plausible and valid to the individual, without necessarily disrupting the rest of their lives.

 

Some loser writer had McDavid 5th place for the Hart, spoiling 'unanimous'. There is not a good or acceptable reason, he should not be a voter.

 

To paraphrase mell brooks. These people are married to there cousins, live in a small community, don't like things they don't understand "they're morons" if I don't like a band I go somewhere else. I think it was Johnny rotten who said if the audience don't like it turn it up

 

It's been coming for sometime now and has fully arrived,... keep telling and showing society and younger generations that there are absolutely no consequences to their nefarious actions and this is exactly what you get.

Many sports figures, politicians, certain social groups, certain parents, etc., etc. get away with it while the children and young adults watch and think,... "hell, guess that's normal standard issue acceptable behaviour."

I believe everyone is a product of their environment when growing up,... some are stable and some F'd up beyond repair.

If that kind of shit went on at concerts that I attended back 30+ years ago you would be sure to see some burly roadie or security guard lay somewhat of a beating on the individual then be tossed out on their asses,... without being taken aside later by the boss and told it was excessive force.

Sometimes a good old fashioned ass kicking will deliver a much needed life lesson for those in need.

 

keep telling and showing society and younger generations that there are absolutely no consequences to their nefarious actions and this is exactly what who get.

 

Toronto cops gonna be defunded and replaced with social workers. Great stuff should be a real good time comin up. It’s the way things are now and no point in bitching about it on a message board. Drive by shooting in front of a daycare today stuck a few rounds in the wall. Toronto hands out crack pipes in little bags with the city logo on them; also hand out shit for doing chrystal meth.. lol. People voted for or accepted the institutions that lead to this shit so suck it up and burn baby burn… 😆

 

Seattle 2.0?

 

well Ottawa ain't far behind, being " enlightened and progressive " don't ya know.

2 shootings and a stabbing over the weekend in downtown.

 

A new generation of twenty somethings who were 8 when Jackass was released. They watched all sequels and were trained to be morons. Make something outrageous and create YT content!

 

When I was younger and going to concerts, idiots were taken care of by the crowd. I guess that doesn't happen anymore?

 

Years ago, Abbie Hoffman threw a bag of dung at Blood Sweat & Tears and there was the 1973 Alice Cooper incident in Toledo, so it's not exactly a new thing.

 

Well I suppose that is understandable where Blood Sweat and Tears are concerned.. lol

 

I don't know if this is so "new". I'm old enough to remember shit flying onstage at concerts for years. In '83, I saw Gene Simmons of Kiss get into it with some fucktard at the front who continually badgered him by throwing stuff at him. It wasn't unusual to be sitting in the Civic centre when firecrackers, frisbees and even bottles were sailing over one's head. So maybe folks are now awakening to this rather common occurrence? It's old news.

 

I don't know if this is so "new". I'm old enough to remember shit flying onstage at concerts for years. In '83, I saw Gene Simmons of Kiss get into it with some fucktard at the front who continually badgered him by throwing shit at him. It wasn't unusual to be sitting in the Civic centre when firecrackers, frisbees and even bottles were sailing over one's head. So maybe folks are now awakening to this rather common occurrence? It's old news.

I wasn’t going to concerts in the 80’s but it was certainly a thing in the 90’s. The difference today is phones and social media.

Nobody goes to concerts anymore without being buried in their phones, so when something happens, a thousand videos are uploaded to social media platforms right away. That includes the artist reaction, which might be more of a headline worthy story lol.

Before phones it would have been a word of mouth event, or worst case a media outlet might be there to cover the event and it might get 20 seconds on the news.

 

What, you never played behind a chicken-wire screen? Throwing stuff at the band has a long and robust history. Romans probably threw stuff at the slave-minstrels.

 

Where is James Dalton when you need him?

 

Don't forget the threat to democracy that the bouncy castles posed.

 

Most if the people at that Ottawa street party looked like people I’d probably get along ok with.

 

my new hitch cover arrived today…lol

 

my new hitch cover arrived today…lol

Go well with this ..

 

Teaching children about anal sex, dick and twat licking, etc, is completely appropriate .. Right.
libtards .. geez.

 

Canadian Music Festival, CNE '79

Aerosmith
April Wine
Goddo
Johnny Winter
Moxy
Nash the Slash
Nazareth
Ramones
Ted Nugent
Triumph

Me and a friend were up in the stands where we witnessed the field cover being peeled back and crowd tearing up the turf and hurling it at each other.
It was far enough from the stage that none of it wound up there.

 

Canadian Music Festival, CNE '79

Aerosmith
April Wine
Goddo
Johnny Winter
Moxy
Nash the Slash
Nazareth
Ramones
Ted Nugent
Triumph

Me and a friend were up in the stands where we witnessed the field cover being peeled back and crowd tearing up the turf and hurling it at each other.
It was far enough from the stage that none of it wound up there.
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That’s a line up!

 

 

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-chow-wins-mayors-race-with-thin-mandate-to-govern

.. with low voter turnout, Chow enters the mayor’s office without a strong mandate on two fronts. She didn’t win as clearly as she had been expected to and she won with the support of less than 15% of eligible voters having cast ballots for her to take on one of the biggest municipal jobs in the country.

 

Yes, but that spin comes from The Sun. They'd find fault if she got 100 percent of the votes cast by 80 percent of eligible voters. That's what they do, just like the Star would be supportive of her.

It's best to take ALL media with a grain of salt these days.

And if Postmedia merges with the Toronto Star's parent corporation...