New Yorkers Fear 'Big Four' Riot At METALLICA Concert

August 23, 2011

According to the New York Post, a New York business group is worried that rowdy METALLICA fans will wreak havoc on the streets when the band rocks at Yankee Stadium next month and it has called for METALLICA to take pre-emptive action to avoid violence.

Cary Goodman, head of the 161st Street Business Improvement District of the Bronx, told the paper that he was moved to act after METALLICA fans, shut out of sold-out performance venues, rioted last year in Colombia and Chile, leading to hundreds of arrests and damaged property.

He said: "When I read about the disturbances and riots, I thought, 'Why don't we think proactively and put up a big screen in Macombs Dam Park?

"Everybody's going to want to dance. I reached out to METALLICA's management last month but I haven't heard back."

Goodman has also called for extra police officers to be on duty on September 14 and has doubled the number of sanitation crews on duty.

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