Fighting at your debs

SirIrish

I work in a hotel and i'm just after finishing a debs and everything was great all night untill the very end of it when a fight started and it escalated into a free for all and gardai were called and people were taken away and others were brought to the hospital. It was the same last wed night at the end of the night. I was just wondering is this the done thing now?? I don't want to sound like an old fella but "back in my day" :rolleyes: I don't remember anything like this happening at any of the debs.
It's sad .
So was your debs like this???

Resurrection

SirIrish wrote:

I work in a hotel and i'm just after finishing a debs and everything was great all night untill the very end of it when a fight started and it escalated into a free for all and gardai were called and people were taken away and others were brought to the hospital. It was the same last wed night at the end of the night. I was just wondering is this the done thing now?? I don't want to sound like an old fella but "back in my day" :rolleyes: I don't remember anything like this happening at any of the debs.
It's sad .
So was your debs like this???

Young people mixed with all day drinking and raging hormones. Of course there are going to be fights. "I'll never have to see this guy again after this. He wont be in my school. I've always hated him"

Teenagers + alcohol = fights, so don't seem so shocked.

jcoote

no fights at my debs but i remember only me and my best mate (who i don't talk to know) we're the only ones awake and singin our hearts out...great night...but no not a bit of fighting (and people say ballyfermot is a kip !!!!)

Beekay

No,there were no fights at my one either,everyone was too busy gettin a free little fry up at the end of the night at my one to bother fightin.....me included Damn it was a good fry

Nuttzz

scores were settled...

cuaifeadh

No fighting, but I had the after party in my house and suprise suprise there were gate crashers. Some of my big scary friends who had offered to do bouncer for the night chased them around the house, lost them...and then found them chatting away to my father who was offering them beer!! >.<

MorningStar

No fights but some of my school mates stole stuff from the hotel and where we had breakfast. Not small things either tv and speakers.

Which schools or areas were the debs people from? I remeber my school was not allowed organise a debs one year because of the year before.

Been a long,long time

Ruffty^

MorningStar wrote:

Not small things either tv and speakers.

souvenir !

Nukem

Resurrection wrote:

Teenagers + alcohol = fights, so don't seem so shocked.

???????????? Thats kinda painting all teenagers who drink in a bad light isnt it. A tad harsh.

My Grads was fairly usual just everyone having a laugh but there was one gom who decided he would be the big man and try start a fight with a few fellas of the rather large varietys. needless to say he wasnt liked by majority of my year and was tossed out on his ass from the Grads. Heard of some Debs/Grads getting outta hand alright!

Know a guy who organizes them and he had some stories but generally if the bouncers are fast enough nothing more comes of it.

Nukem

Dave!

I'll let you know in a week's time

Femelade

a girl in my class asked some guy to go to the debs with her, he said he couldnt get the time off work. but then he went with my friend, after the meal the first girl walked over and poured a pint all over him.
that was about it..
oh and someone pushed me onto the principals lap...but that was purely accidental....

Tha Gopher

Mine had a few fights and three arrests/cautions by cops, 2 arrested for drunbkeness etc and my mate cautioned for hash posession


tbh alot quieter than probably a majority of debs. Most debs I know of end in near riots. All have a row or two, but some descend into the realms of forehead-beerbottle combat

Stuff robbed or the venue completely wrecked.....yes, its pretty common

Is it more common now? I dunno, alot more people would be coked up along wth drink these days compared to a few years ago, but afaik debs have always been pretty violent venues

Alli Babba

I went to an all girls school and when our debs came around there was allot of bitching in the toilets it got so bad that my friend went to the mens toiets to avoid it all

but I still had a great night though

magpie

Stupid parents give stupid teenagers too much money to spend on booze that they can't handle - you end up with fights.

In my day we never had more than enough for a couple of pints, not 18 litres of Fat Frog.

Sleepy

It's funny actually, from my experience you always get more fights at an all-girls school debs that at an all-boys' one.

At the guys' debs you'll find that the lads who can't stand each other wll be sitting at different tables and will be able to avoid each other and just get on with enjoying their own night. At the girls' debs, however, it's the girls who'll obviously be the ones dicatating the seating arrangement so the two guys can end up sat at the same table...Plus you've got the fact that the lads are most likely from a mix of schools so you can get things like sports rivalries kicking off trouble too.

At my own debs, I can only remember one punch being thrown and that was given to a guy who'd spent the whole night looking for a fight (until someone actually gave him one!). At a girlfriend's debs I remember the place being a feckin' battleground. There was a whole load of fights and someone got their head put through a window...

Draupnir

Me and 4 of my mates went to a Debs with 5 girls from a local girls school, we didnt get in any fights as such, but we did have a Royal Rumble type event amongst the 5 of us in a corner of the room while the women ate dinner.

Jesus, its amazing what seemed a good, funny idea when I was 17. Black Tie were unimpressed.

the_syco

magpie wrote:

Stupid parents give stupid teenagers too much money to spend on booze that they can't handle - you end up with fights.

In my day we never had more than enough for a couple of pints, not 18 litres of Fat Frog.

In my day, we worked hard, earned our money, and got drunk on it. No fights in my debs, and no fights when we went back to the football field to continue drinking.

ferdi

my debs was deadly, no fights as far as i recall. everyone just got completely loaded on various substances.

Civilian_Target

Yeah - I was in an all-boys school and there were no fights at our debs, just lots of general drunkenness and people staggering down the road and blocking traffic.

When I went to the girls-school's debs there were 3 or 4 fights - which I found quite funny.

Neither of them were fantastic nights though, I have to admit - not worth the few hundred euro they cost between them, for sure!

MorningStar

Femmy wrote:

a girl in my class asked some guy to go to the debs with her, he said he couldnt get the time off work. but then he went with my friend, after the meal the first girl walked over and poured a pint all over him.
that was about it..
oh and someone pushed me onto the principals lap...but that was purely accidental....

I love how humilation or violence (slap in the face) by woman is acceptable if against a man. If a bloke did that for a girl sleeping with his best friend he wouldn't get away with it.

LoneGunM@n

Mine was a complete laugh ... I remember 2 punch ups that kicked off over the same girl ... but the best was when someone lumped the principal (he was so pissed that he couldn't tell who did it)! We all wanted to do it, but I think it was someone from outside the school who did it in the end

Mossy Monk

no fighting at mine, just lots of happy and intoxicated people

Resurrection

Nukem wrote:

???????????? Thats kinda painting all teenagers who drink in a bad light isnt it. A tad harsh.

My Grads was fairly usual just everyone having a laugh but there was one gom who decided he would be the big man and try start a fight with a few fellas of the rather large varietys. needless to say he wasnt liked by majority of my year and was tossed out on his ass from the Grads. Heard of some Debs/Grads getting outta hand alright!

Know a guy who organizes them and he had some stories but generally if the bouncers are fast enough nothing more comes of it.

Nukem

As was mine. My point was that you shouldn't be shocked to the point of starting a new thread. These things happen all the time with teenagers. And it's fact that teenagers are known to drink more and obviously with the lack of maturity you will get more fights breaking out.

nesf

I vaguely remember one guy causing a bit of trouble at my debs. If I recall correctly he got kicked out and everyone got on with their night.

There was an ambulance called, but that was because someone over indulged on the drink rather than any fighting.

Nightwish

the boyfriends of some of the girls in my year got into a big fight and there was people arrested for assault. Then the cops found drugs, so more were arrested for possession.

Stompbox

Jesus Christ!

jank

Young people nowdays eh!!

I have been to 3 debs and my own grads and not one fight did I see.

Maybe people are more civilised when I was younger and im not talking about 20 years ago, im talking more like 5!

jonny68

SirIrish wrote:

I work in a hotel and i'm just after finishing a debs and everything was great all night untill the very end of it when a fight started and it escalated into a free for all and gardai were called and people were taken away and others were brought to the hospital. It was the same last wed night at the end of the night. I was just wondering is this the done thing now?? I don't want to sound like an old fella but "back in my day" :rolleyes: I don't remember anything like this happening at any of the debs.
It's sad .
So was your debs like this???

Same here mate my debs passed off without a hint of trouble despite everybody being hammered drunk it was all good natured,it just goes to show you how violent society has become roday unfortunately.

Nightwish

mine was 4 years ago. the trouble at mine was caused by the scumbags that were accompanying the skangers in my year. Not a true reflection of the LC Class of 01 in my school, cos most of 'em were snobs

AdMMM

In the last Debs that I worked for, there was plenty of security there and they were quick to react to anyone starting on one another and simply threw them out straight away!

D-Generate

Had my grads last night and not a spot of trouble. Everyone was merry and had such a laugh. We were pretty much out from 6 to 6 and not one fight happened and I didn't see anyone even throwing up.

Debs thursday week now and apparently the knackers in the school made a list of who they want to fight. I can't wait to go, looks an exciting night

Love

I'll let you know after next Saturday

CuLT

Mine was a couple years ago; there was no trouble at the event, but on the way back on one of the buses some gob****e got off his head on yolks, went to the bus driver (while still driving along the m50) punched him, kicked out the front windshield and ran off into the night!

Needless to say, he was arrested. Nobody wants to be associated with mongs like that.

kluivert

I bet that was in Jurys Inn Ballsbridge.

I was at a conference there Monday or Tuesday nite and there was a debs crowd coming in and there was security guards there everywhere.

Nothing like that at my debs back in 01.

Kids nowadays.

jaggeh

never had a debs

Ry

It does seem to becoming popular actually. It happened at mine tho I didn't go since I was only in the school 6 months but how and ever there were fights. As someone said earlier it's lads settling old scores since they'll never see them again undoubtedly.
Ry

nobodythere

Nothing like a free for all to sort out your anger! Violence solves some things. As long as all parties want the violence then no problem!

monkeyfudge

My school didn't have a debs... so I had to make one up in my imagination... but there was lots of fighting in that as we battled to stop an evil wizard from taking over the universe.... ah... good times....

Closing Doors

There was a bit of talk from a few lads a couple of days beforehand of "settling old scores" and rubbish like that...thankfully the night was incident free - well fight wise anyway We had our Debs out in the Pavilion and I've a hazy recollection of races around Leopardstown racecourse at the end of the night

No fights at Graduation either though a few guys got thrown out for being off their heads (and now that I think of it, started a fight with a few scumbags on Grafton St.) but the story that sticks in my mind from that night is 2 guys hiring out one of those rickshaw things (bear in mind we were in a club on Leeson St.) and getting the "driver" to take them out to RTE! They then proceeded to leg it in opposite directions without paying for it :eek: :eek:

Dinner

Had my Debs last nigh. I finally found out what debs was short for. No fights, just many drunk people and one attempted escapee.

netwhizkid

I never went to my debs and i heard afterwards there was loads of fighting, horrible food, and of course rip-off tickets, Only in Ireland, Only in Ireland.

Dave!

Closing Doors wrote:

There was a bit of talk from a few lads a couple of days beforehand of "settling old scores" and rubbish like that...thankfully the night was incident free - well fight wise anyway We had our Debs out in the Pavilion and I've a hazy recollection of races around Leopardstown racecourse at the end of the night

No fights at Graduation either though a few guys got thrown out for being off their heads (and now that I think of it, started a fight with a few scumbags on Grafton St.) but the story that sticks in my mind from that night is 2 guys hiring out one of those rickshaw things (bear in mind we were in a club on Leeson St.) and getting the "driver" to take them out to RTE! They then proceeded to leg it in opposite directions without paying for it :eek: :eek:

lmao, bad bastads

adonis

we had a food fight at ours, and i threw a pint of guinness at someone, i remember sitting on the steps of the central bank with oragne juice all over my tuxedo and hair...beautiful

MadPatrick

We had a food fight at ours too. Well, me and another guy throwing food at everyone else. Good times.
The sink in the toilet got broken, I can't remember if someone fell on it by himself or if he fell on it after getting boxed. And a few people slipped on the wet floor and cut their hands and stuff on the broken sink. Good times.

D-Generate

netwhizkid wrote:

I never went to my debs and i heard afterwards there was loads of fighting, horrible food, and of course rip-off tickets, Only in Ireland, Only in Ireland.

Even if there was fighting, horrible food and the tickets were a rip off I still guarantee you that they had a better time than a night at home.....

SirIrish

hmmmmm....looks like it's the done thing .... :mad:

Red Alert

sounds like the engineering ball every year!

Dave!

Apparantly a load of people got arrested in mine... someone for grievous bodily harm or something (hit somebody with a bottle), some people for fighting, some people for doin coke... and the school is banned from the place now!

I don't know how true any of that is, though, cos I didn't see any fights or any coke whatsoever!

Blondie86Star

I've gone to 4 debs and never saw any fights or trouble. Jurys has pretty tight security.
Goin to a debs in a few weeks infact...don't wanna go tho!

Dave!

We were all searched going into Newgrange... wallets, pockets, crotch, legs, armpits, shoes. It were crazy! lol

kmart6

The secondary school in Mountmellick,Co. Laois has decided never to hold one again because the principal does not think it is right to condone under age drinking etc....