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Video: Crazy West Village Street Brawl On St. Patrick's
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Garth Johnston
Published Mar 20, 2012
Modified Mar 20, 2012
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St. Patrick's Day is no stranger to melees, and neither is the McDonald's on West 3rd Street. Put the two together and you've got one doozy of a YouTube video. So! Sit back in your desk, put your earphones on and thank your lucky stars you (hopefully) weren't anywhere near this fight on Saturday night. As one woman off camera screams watching a group go at it outside, "I wanna go home!"
So how'd it all end? We're still trying to find out. The NYPD currently doesn't have any information on this particular incident—it was a busy night for them!—and nobody at McDonald's seems to know. But we will note that this is certainly not the first time this particular McDonald's has been visited by intense violence outside its doors (not to mention inside). Good thing they declined to bring on security guards, eh?
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