NEW YORK CITY -- It's bad enough that people are pushing each other and fatally stampeding each other on the day after Thanksgiving in New York City, Barnwell and other locales big and small, looking to be the first to take advantage of the big sales.
On Saturday, things got a whole lot uglier at a casting call for the 5 foot 7 inch and under cycle of America's Next Top Model.
Three people were arrested and charged as the casting call became a free-for-all. It all started when an immature person yelled "Fire!" and "There's a bomb!"
The driver of the Beemer was Sedrick Myrtil, a student at upstate Binghamton University.
"People were really freaking out about the smoke," the 21-year-old said. "There was pandemonium, and the cops got really upset about my car."
His mom was also smoking Sunday - angrily demanding to know why he was in the city when he had told her that he wasn't.
"I thought he was in school," said Violette Myrtil, 64, of Rockland County.
Mr. Myrtil's mother has every right to be angry with him over his lies. His lying over his location directly caused the cancellation of the casting call.
There were a lot of disappointed women who never got to try out. And a lot more disappointed (and angry) fans.
Folks, has it come down to this?
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable that a 99-cent hamburger gets people murdered these days. Unbelievable that people would stampede each other at the shopping center during the annual day after Thanksgiving sale so that they are the very first to get to a sale. Unbelievable that a 21-year-old man lying about his location caused a bunch of people have to fight in order to get their shot at fame with the CW and Tyra Banks.
And speaking of, WPIX -- the flagship CW station -- said that they are cooperating with the New York Police Department and Nassau County Sheriff's Office in regards to this incident.
But it took the 5 foot-11 inch model another 19 hours in order to produce a statement of any kind, and she didn't answer her fans' accommodations. Instead, it was this statement:
"We appreciate the efforts of the NYPD and will assist them in any way possible in this matter," Ms. Banks and her executive producer Ken Mok said tersely.
What's more, evidence of the free-for-all is still at the location.
What has happened to order? What has happened to civil?
What a sad day for a lot of aspiring models.
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