Russian Thugs Beat Up St. Patrick's Day Flash Mob After Mistaking Them For Gays

Nigel Campbell | March 24, 2014

A fun St. Patrick's Day flash mob in Russia didn't go as planned when the students that were taking part were mistaken for pro-LGBT protesters...and were subsequently beaten in the streets.

AFP reports:

A fight broke out after students at a language school held a belated St Patrick's Day flashmob in a mall in Irkutsk, a police spokesperson said.

"On Sunday evening, members of Easy School held a St Patrick's Day flashmob in the mall. Some youths came up to them and expressed displeasure at the proceedings. A conflict took place that grew into a fight on the square outside the mall," the spokesman said.

A law enforcement source told Interfax that the fight was based on a misunderstanding.

"The Easy School members were wearing historic costumes, particularly kilts and their opponents mistook them for representatives of non-traditional sexual orientation," the source said, using a Russian phrase meaning gay.

Here's video:

"Sorry, we thought you were homos! Our bad! Happy St. Paddy's Day!"

Unreal.

(H/T: Towleroad)

Comments

Oli Lennon - March 24, 2014

Actually this is a hate crime as defined: is a usually violent, prejudice motivated crime that occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group.

Daniel-Johnsonkroman - March 24, 2014

MInds that are conditioned to fear and that are constantly reinforced with misinformation operate on cues - automatons, machines of the State! [We should never assume that WE are free from such conditioning, because we are also conditioned!]. That is what we are seeing here: programmed hatred of non-heterosexuals because non-heterosexuals are not breeders. Putin needs to increase his younger population in order to have fresh minds for propagandizing - look at the images of himself that appear in the Russian media, and consider that he dumped his wife for a younger breeder-bitch: propagation to build the nation! He portrays himself as the supreme athlete and hunter-warrior. He is planning for a resurgence of the Russian people as the physically superior race: NO WONDER THE GERMANS ARE WORRIED HE WILL OPEN PANDORA'S BOX = EUGENICS! Pay attention, folks! The attack on non-heterosexuals is an attack on non-breeders despite whether those non-breeders are the INTELLECTUALS, THE SCIENTISTS, THE EDUCATORS, THE DOCTORS, THE LAWYERS, THE THINKERS - IN FACT, Make SURE THOSE are the ones who are targetted and wiped out in order for the engineered society to move forward. Bye-bye, America!

Bob29 - March 24, 2014

Russia nowadays is more uncivilized than the dinosaur era. Sorry for beatin ya pal, are these your teeth on the floor?

Sammy - March 24, 2014

What a bunch of fucking uneducated retards.

Dj X Rucciano - March 24, 2014

It's fucking retarted, how people think apologies solve everything.

Trey - March 24, 2014

Does not matter if there was an apology or not. Hatred is hatred and a hate crime.

Anonymous - March 24, 2014

Unfortunately this isn't a hate crime in fucked up ass backwords Russia