Tween Girls Go Wild at Justin Bieber Mall Event; 5 Injured, 1 Arrest

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Nov 22nd 2009 09:02AM

New York police shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber after thousands of young girls showed up and got a little too wild. Nassau County police say girls and adults in the crowd of nearly 3,000 started pushing and shoving as they waited for the 15-year-old sensation to arrive Friday at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City.

But Bieber never made it into the building. He told WBLI radio that police turned him away and even "threatened to arrest my mom and I."

Five people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries and police arrested a vice president from Bieber's record label, Island Def Jam Records. They say he wasn't cooperating with attempts to disperse the crowd.

Some fans had camped out overnight for the event. Many had cameras with them ... here's one particularly polished fan video:

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Sunday 22 November

By vinny

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Who is this wanabe soon to be has been?I bet he lip syncs.

Saturday 30 January

By Kylie

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I'll bet you that he doesn't... Check out his original videos and I bet that you can tell that he's not lip singing.

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Its called good video production.

By Leon

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lol Look at that.... Estrogen levels way up and ovaries dropping on so many girls all at once and in one location.

By poot

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let me guess... you didn't really get terrific grades in biology, did you?

By cyndi

Ovaries drop??? Well I'll be da**ed. LMAO.

By Zapper

The person who assemble the video (above) of the event should get an award. Never has there been a better example of collective stupidity captured on film. I especially got a kick out of the 40ish guy standing among all the young girls waiting to see his idol!
I guess history does repeat itself. I have seen old black and white videos of fans crying and fainting at Beatles concerts. Sadly, most of them never got to meet their idols either! ROFLMAO

Monday 23 November

By pj

i was at a beatles concert here in indianapolis and it was amazing,there was medical assistants at every section of the coliseum, girls were fainting everywhere. ive never seen anything like it and i even saw elvis twice

Tuesday 24 November

By Harlowe Thrombey

How stupid all these girls psychologically trick themselves into getting this excited over something all because of mass psychosis.

None of them are REALLY into the Bieber guy. They just want to get excited over something in a group.

These are America's future businesswomen and politicians.

By jon

i dont know why all these whores showed up. Theyre not gonna be with him and obcviously hes not going to remember every girl that saw him.

What a wasted event. Whoever planned the event should of known all these teeny boppers were gonna start an almost riot. They should have had it planned on an airport runway.

Oh nice, calling a bunch of preteens whores. They get excited..so what. That doesn't make them whores, but that DOES make you a dou***bag. You wish someone got that excited over YOU.

lol, i was wondering the same thing. Who's that 50 year old pedophile guy in the crowd?? lol

By Hannah

The kid did a great job on the video...I think Justin should call her and thank her for showing the rest of the world just how truly stupid his fans are!

By richard

lol

By Kim

History repeats itself the same thing happened in FL in the 90's when Luke Perry from 90210 was at the mall and there was a riot and lot more people got hurt broken bones, stitches, security guards in riot gear it was awful... The promoters need to prepare a little better for stuff like this, and parents need to be more cautious because in this video you didn’t see any parents did you… They won’t learn until someone die at one of these events and maybe not then either…

By Kelli

Easiest way to avoid this is simply to give out 500 tickets to the first 500 people and that's it period. No ticket, no autograph. I went to meet Billy Ray Cyrus at an autoghaph signing a few years ago. It was cut off at 500 people. Of course it didn't stop a few more thousand from showing up anyway. But the security was right on top of things.

By weezee

HAHAHAHA!! When will these dopey 'tweens learn that these one-hit-wonder pop "singers" are not worth wasting their time for. That applies to any celebrity. You like their performances. Go watch the movie. They're no better in real life than you are.