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Mamapolo2016 Loved Garrison Keillor's humor.
Me too.
It was a metro-wide 4th celebration at the Truman museum. Huge crowd.
A special highlight was when it ended, after the fireworks display and we were walking around the back of the museum to get to our car and found ourselves in the middle of a gang rumble. More like a riot with two sides throwing rocks an beer bottles at one another, and yelling at one another with death threats. It got extra serious when one side drove a car into the others, ramming the other sides' motor cycles, people screaming. We were in the bystanders crowd, just trying to pass through to leave, but still within 50 feet, way to close, so we took safety in a small grove of trees. We probably overwhelmed the 911 operator with panic calls. The police came, eventually 30+ police cars, but for the first 5 minutes there was but one police officer walking into the lion's den. Still to this day amazed at how he single handedly took control and kept everyone at bay untill the overwhelming police force showed up and started sorting things out.
He stepped out the patrol car with a megaphone and and a big night stick. As the crowd started to overwhelm him, he extended the night stick and his arm, and drew an imaginary circle around himself and announced something to the effect that anyone coming closer will be arrested and probably worse.
