New Jersey family-friendly hayride event dissolves into chaos after hundreds of teens wreak havoc: police

A PTA-sponsored hayride successful a quiescent New Jersey municipality dissolved into chaos arsenic constabulary were forced to intervene aft hundreds of unruly teens began warring successful a section parkland and causing havoc.

The Collingswood Police Department shared in a Facebook post that the family-friendly Haunted Hayride successful Knight Park required constabulary to intervene aft an estimated 200+ juveniles were dropped disconnected astatine Knight Park successful Collingswood, New Jersey.

"The lawsuit was rapidly disrupted by fights breaking out, mostly betwixt arriving youths, and unruly behavior," the section said.

Authorities said that the out-of-control behaviour began soon aft 8:20 p.m. connected Oct. 19, with the young adults "running recklessly done the assemblage and cutting successful enactment for the hay ride."

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Autumn is here!  It's clip to instrumentality a amusive hayride! (iStock)

Police officers dispersed the rowdy kids to "ensure the information of the families attending the event," constabulary said. 

However, it was decided determination was nary harmless mode to proceed the hayride event, truthful the constabulary unopen the Halloween lawsuit down.

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But, the nighttime was not implicit for the chaotic teens. Police said that 50–70 juveniles took implicit section state station, Wawa.

"As officers were successful the midst of dispersing the parkland crowds, a telephone was received reporting an incidental astatine Wawa connected Haddon Avenue, involving 50–70 juveniles taking implicit the store," constabulary said. "Officers were capable to assistance Wawa with dispersing the radical of juveniles who were stealing items and causing a disturbance."

Wawa was besides forced to unopen down to forestall immoderate much damage, constabulary said.

Nationwide Children's Hospital recommends speechmaking and explaining posted hayride rules to your children, listening to operators and staying seated passim the ride. (Virginia Tourism Corporation)

The chaos continued on done residential yards, constabulary said.

"When officers arrived astatine the park, they recovered that astir 80 juveniles were engaged successful a monolithic combat and were met with absorption from youths punching, kicking and pushing past the officers to proceed fighting," constabulary said. "Some juveniles broke distant from the main radical and began moving done adjacent residential backyards."

Police officers yet dispersed the assemblage and restored order. They did not marque immoderate arrests, the section said.

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In a Facebook post, lawsuit unit astatine the Collingswood Haunted Hayride lawsuit said that the "evening was beyond what we could person expected."

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"Unfortunately, arsenic everyone saw and realized, a batch of the evening was beyond what could person been expected, but with the feedback and consciousness we volition reappraisal and signifier to find a mode to determination into adjacent year," the hayride wrote connected Facebook. "We admit your enactment and without it our lawsuit could not happen."