Garden City, New York – What you just witnessed was a mob of teen girls waiting at a Justin Bieber album signing at Roosevelt Field mall. The problem was that police canceled the event. The reason? The crowd was too unruly. Had I not watched the video, I’d have thought the kid a pussy. But now? Well, that was the scariest thing I have seen lately. But there is a reason why I am posting this. There was an arrest made in connection with the no-show.
44-year-old James A. Roppo, a senior vice president from Bieber’s label, Island Def Jam Records, was arrested and facing possible charges of criminal nuisance, endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government administration. Why? Well here’s the good part. For not using Twitter. “We asked for his help in getting the crowd to go away by sending out a Twitter message,” Nassau County Police Det. Lt. Kevin Smith said. “By not cooperating with us we feel he put lives in danger and the public at risk.”
Crazy, huh? There were some minor injuries at the mall and you can read some eyewitness accounts of the fiasco here. But something that struck me as funny are the two middle-aged men who (I hope) were there with their young daughters.
You catch them a bit before they are sucked into the black hole door along with a gaggle of screaming teen girls. Normally, I couldn’t imagine having a bunch of teen girls pressed against me being a bad thing – but in this case I would be absolutely horrified, in a fetal position hiding in the corner.
Tags: Island Def Jam Music Group, James A. Roppo, Justin Bieber, Roosevelt Field, Twitter
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