Cleveland Municipal Stadium, 1974

The Promotion: 10-Cent Beer Night. To bring fans to see the miserable Cleveland Indians, management decided to sell 10-ounce cups of beer for only 10 cents at a game against the Texas Rangers.

What went wrong: Management forgot one small detail: drunk people get restless. More than 25,000 fans showed up for the event, most of them already tipsy at the gate. Among the more tame incidents was a woman who flashed the crowd from the on-deck circle, a father-son team mooning the players (good bonding experience, I guess) and fans jumping on the field to meet shake hands with the outfielders. Then, in the bottom of the ninth, the Indians tied the game, but never got a chance to win. Fans started throwing batteries, golf balls, cups and rocks onto the field and one even took the glove of the Rangers right fielder. As the player rushed into the stands to get his glove back, fans starting swarming the field to stop him and threw chairs to block his way.

The Outcome: The Indians were forced to forfeit the game and nine fans were arrested. The AL president forced the franchise to abandon the promotion idea after understating “There was no question that beer played a great part in the affair.”

We’re not done yet. We still have Disco Record Demolition Night (think Frisbees), free baseball night (you know where this one’s going), and free food (vomit) seats.

From Bad ideas in baseball.

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The pilot of this WWII-era plane has incredible skills, presence, and big balls to pull off this emergency landing on a busy Wisconson highway. Check out this video taken by a police car camera behind the plane:

Man lands plane on buys Wisconsin highway.

Nineteen people, including more than a dozen members of a Tolleson gang, have been arrested in connection with 34 home invasions in which the robbers impersonated police officers.

A 115-count grand-jury indictment outlines crimes ranging from theft, burglary and impersonating an officer to aggravated assault, armed robbery and kidnapping.

Four suspects are still at large.

“These defendants allegedly were responsible for a wave of home invasions and domestic terrorism that we are accustomed to seeing in foreign countries but not in our own,” Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said Monday. “Such organized violent crime must draw a harsh response from law enforcement.”

Authorities believe robbers would storm into homes and claim to be the police, wearing police, FBI or DEA gear and uniforms. They carried handguns, assault rifles, grenades, shotguns and knives during the attacks, which were aimed at securing drugs, money and material possessions, according to police.

Ninteen arrested in connection with 34 home invasions.

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