Sunday, October 20, 2013

"Man killed during bowling alley brawl in NJ"

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) - Prosecutors say a man was apparently beaten to death during a large brawl that broke out during a party at a central New Jersey bowling alley."

But it's still not clear what started the brawl, which began around 1:30 a.m. Saturday in Piscataway and involved roughly 250 people. Authorities say the combatants were fighting inside the alley and in the parking lot, but most of them fled when police arrived."

MyFoxNY dot com via Drudge tweet

25 comments:

Shouting Thomas said...

A regular Mel Brooks Western bar fight in real life.

Almost wish I'd been there. But at the age of 63, I don't think that I could hold my own.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Authorities say the combatants were fighting inside the alley and in the parking lot, but most of them fled when police arrived.

Just how fast can you run in rented shoes?

rhhardin said...

I took Frans Brüggen to a NJ bowling alley once, for coffee.

On the way to visit my under-construction airplane which for some reason he wanted to see.

deborah said...

lol Bliss, shoes with little traction.

My first date ever took me bowling, and didn't have enough money with him to cover the fee.

Aridog said...

Let's see here:

1. Bowling Alley
2. New Jersey
3. 1:30 AM
4. Mega Drunks.
5. New Jersey
6. Crowd of 250
7. Bowling Alley
8. New Jersey

Yeah, hell of a evening plan there... :)

ricpic said...

Beaten to death, but that Jersey pizza first made it all worthwhile.

deborah said...

I don't know, Ari, I'm still stuck on Frans Bruggen and bowling alley. If rh weren't so doggedly mysterious, he'd fill us in.

Guildofcannonballs said...

This wasn't in Get Smart was it?

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

If you're from South Jersey, Piscataway is North Jersey.

Palladian said...

I have a recording of some of Rameau's Pièces de clavecin with Frans Brüggen playing flute.

rhhardin and a baroque flautist have coffee in a New Jersey bowling alley on their way to look at an unfinished aeroplane.

It sounds like a Dada theatre piece, perhaps Tristan Tzara.

Icepick said...

IIB, not only the rented shoes, but the droopy pants, too.

ricpic said...

rh and Antoine de Saint-Exupery have never been seen in the same place at the same time. Just say'n.

Icepick said...

NQUB gets close to it but doesn't ask the right questions. Did rh and FB discuss Get Smart in the bowling alley? Did they discuss the relative merits of American and European scythes, and the maintenance routines thereof?

And what am I forgetting to ask?

deborah said...

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

More like Tarantino, Pall :)

AllenS said...

Those gutters totally ruin the bowling experience.

ndspinelli said...

"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown..err, Piscataway."

Titus said...

I was an amazing bowler.

Every Saturday at the Waun-A-Bowl in Waunakee, Wisconsin I worked it.

My form was fab....natch. At the age of 10 I had an average of 160.

Boston is all about candle pin bowling but I prefer the large balls.

tits.

ndspinelli said...

AllenS, Have the counter guy put up those gutter protectors. They do it for kid parties. We had probably 6 birthday parties for our kids @ bowling "centers," they're not alleys anymore! When our son got to be 12 or so he didn't want those gutter bumpers anymore. He's a good bowler. I always tell him he's probably the best Colombian bowler in Wi.

ndspinelli said...

Titus, in southern NE where I grew up it's duckpins. The opposite of candlepin, they are tiny pins, kinda cute. You get 3 balls a frame. They have candlepin in Milwaukee.

virgil xenophon said...

Too bad they didn't have the party at the classic icon Rock n' Bowl in New Orleans on S. Carrollton Ave--a bowling alley, deli restaurant and jazz/rock dance floor/stage combo--all on a walk-up second-floor in a shopping center@corner of Tulane Ave & S. Carrollton......could have danced-out all that "agro" (as the Brits are wont to say, lol)

PS: A GREAT place, btw..

virgil xenophon said...

PS: My nostolgia got the better of me. Since Katrina the "Mid-City" Rock & Bowl relocated to a new ground-floor bldg just technically out-side "Mid-City" on Earhart Blvd. STILL a great time, tho, but I miss the original place--had more "character" even tho they relocated all the hand-painted murals depicting the local mise-en-scene...just something about the old place being a long 2nd-floor angled walk-up from the parking-lot..

Aridog said...

I remember bowling with small balls at small pins at a place on the boardwalk in Bethany Beach, Delaware, when I was a kid. Can't remember whether it was candlepin or duckpin though.

ndspinelli said...

Had to be duckpin. Candlepin are taller than regular pins. Duckpins are half the size of regular, actually called Ten Pin back in the 60's, 70's. Now, since Ten Pin has almost eliminated other venues, it's just called "bowling."

virgil xenophon said...

And then there is always bocce ball. Did you know that there is a below-street-level walk-down basement restaurant in NYC on E 62nd St named "Isle Vagabond" that has an active bocce court in the restaurant along the length of one wall? Good food (Italian, natch) as well..unique atmosphere to say the least..

ndspinelli said...

There are several tavern/restaurants on dago hill in St. Louis[where Berra and Garagiola grew up] that have bocce courts.