Saya sangat sedih , ini adalah impian saya untuk menjadi model"
10.000 orang dalam antrian
Huru-hara terjadi diluar gedung pada kegiatan casting "AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL" di midtown kemarin yang diakibatkan oleh suara yang mengejutkan dari sebuah mobil yang overheated. Insiden tersebut menelan korban jiwa serta banyak yang kritis dan langsung dilarikan ke rumah sakit terdekat di Manhattan. Seperti dilaporkan, Next Top Model adalah ajang pencarian bakat di Amerika Serikat seperti halnya American Idol. Jumlah peserta yang mencapai 10.000 orang tidak dapat terbendung ketika terus merangsek untuk mendapatkan registrasi dari panitia.
Enam orang dilaporkan luka-luka dan dirawat di rumah sakit terdekat. Sejauh ini polisi telah menangkap tiga orang yang diduga sebagai pemicu kerusuhan.
Jumlah polisi yang menjaga acara tersebut kewalahan karena personelnya terbatas.
Andrea Perez (18 tahun). "Saya tidak mendapat kesempatan", "Saya sangat sedih karena ini adalah impian saya untuk menjadi model"
Pihak kepolisian mengaku belum dapat mengetahui pemicu kerusuhan yang terjadi di antara ratusan orang yang berkerumun di hotel Park Central, Manhattan, New York.
Dari penyelidikan yang dilakukan, terdapat ratusan sepatu, botol minuman serta pakaian yang tersisa dari kerusuhan itu.
Menurut pihak kepolisian, acara yang diprakarsai oleh Tyra Banks tersebut bahkan harus dihentikan, karena lemahnya sistem pengamanan yang dilakukan panitia. Gelaran audisi pencarian model untuk diberikan kesempatan berkarir di dunia model internasional tersebut, sudah bergulir sejak empat Maret lalu.
Sementara, Banks mengatakan jika event tersebut diadakan untuk membuat para wanita merasa tertarik dengan dunia modelling, di samping mencetuskan ide baru, bahwa model tak harus selalu sesuai dengan selera agen. (Inlh)
Chaos at 'America's Next Top Model' auditions
Pandemonium erupted outside of an "America's Next Top Model" casting call in midtown Saturday when an overheating car triggered a stampede of catwalk-craving cuties.
By the time the model madness ended, two women were hospitalized and two others and one man were busted for inciting a riot, authorities said.
Scores of aspiring models slept overnight outside the Park Central Hotel, hoping to be the first to sashay before the hit show's casting agents. But shortly after the sun rose, women began arriving and lining up indiscriminately. Tensions quickly boiled over.
Things came to a head when a black BMW with smoke pouring out of its hood pulled up in the street near the line, sending the sea of underdressed women scrambling to get away.
Screaming as they ran for their lives, hundreds of hotties in heels toppled over barricades along W. 55th St. after several people in the crowd started yelling, "There's a bomb!"
"The metal barricade fell down," said Kiara McCarthy, 19, of Levittown, L.I. "All of a sudden we heard this roar from behind us and we looked behind us and there's a wave of people falling on top of us."
Several women were treated at the scene, witnesses said. Two were transported to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell in stable condition, authorities said.
No more women were allowed to audition after the stampede, leaving the diminutive ladies devastated that they missed out on an opportunity to make it big.
Police officers struggled to maintain order as people began to leave the scene, their hopes for stardom dashed.
Kerri Stewart from New Jersey cried...
as did 18-year-old Andrea Perez. "I don't get a chance," she said, "I'm upset because it was my dream to be a model."
Fantasia James, 19, sits down amid the debris after the crowd got out of control.
Gabrielle Rose from Scranton, Pa., poses for a picture after the scuffle.
Two aspiring models stand among debris.
A total of six women were injured, authorities said. It is not known if the auditions will resume.
Sumber : nydailynews.com
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