Monday, October 1, 2012

September 29th, The TOBUSCUS London Riot.


"Well, you can suffienctly say that Toby doesn't need Axe/Lynx to get all the girls.... Or men for that matter" - Audience Member Vatt

"Audience, wha? What are you doing? Trying to eat me alivAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" - Audience Member 8Maik

"Experts say that The London Riot was more dangerous and had more injuries than Hurricane Isaac" - Audience Member Vatt

"Audience? Wat r u doing? Audience!? STAHP." - All of the Audience Members

All jokes aside, this was, literally, a Mob of Audience Members.

Basically on September 27th, 2012, Toby Turner posted a tweet about a meetup for the ones available on the September 29th.

Apparently, EVERYONE was available. 

Click see more for story, pictures, videos, and more:  
(don't want to have a really long post on the front page)

     This meet-up was planned to be 2 hours long, which is a decent amount of time to meet about 100 audience members and have conversations, take pictures, sign autographs, etc. This idea very soon faded away when over 2,000 British Audience Members showed up. (Estimated by Seth Hendrix)
  Diagram below:

Red: Toby and Seth
Green: The 2,000 audience members
(accurate estimated amount)
(Real life wasn't this orderly)
Red: Toby
Green: British swarm
(not accurate amount, lost count after 100)
(Displays what actually happened)





















Pre-TOBUSCUS arrival
 Toby and Seth arrive approximately 4:40 (40 minutes late) and the meetup escalated fast. Toby was unable to to move around freely, was constantly groped, shoved, hugged, shouted at, etc, according to videos by audience members. I saw an Audience Member ruffle his head, and others what looked like to be trying to take a bit of him home (a lock of hair). Another person had silly string and was just spraying it on everyone. Exhaustion and fear was clear on Toby's face, but many didn't seem to notice. He was often engulfed/drowned by the massive amounts of people around him, causing many non-crazy Audience Members not being able to see him at all that day.
Don't you love it when random people hug you?
Someone brought a foam finger to da partay.
Just pure exhaustion.
Toby doesn't believe his eyes of all these people here just for him and Seth.
Trying to get everyone's attention (not that it's hard to get their attention,
but that it's hard for them to listen)
New York pride... IN LONDON. Sweet.
    Many times Toby made the suggestion to be on one side of the Audience, and for them to disperse a little... and kind of succeeded... the Audience trapped him against the golden fence... so they were kind of on one side of him... He asked if there was a way for him to get higher, and it was suggested to climb the fence, and that was what he did (seeing that many pressured him to do it, and the whole situation was too overwhelming) Many tried to help and push him over the fence... which in the long run probably wasn't the greatest idea and probably didn't help him too much.

 (and I may not live in London, nor Europe for that matter, but I'm sure it was illegal to climb over the fence, but that's okay. shhh. don't tell anyone)
ASS-GRAB.. jk. Audience member trying to help Toby
get over the fence.
Some Audience members also climbed over the fence to join Toby
Clear detailed view of the sharp fence that surrounds the memorial
That was when he stabbed his hand, and his legs.


From his Instagram: SPIKE WOUND OF DEATH!!
      About other 20 people also climbed over the fence... Even when he gave the speech about getting in trouble, and said specifically not to climb over the fence
Toby talking to Adzie (Creator of http://www.youtube.com/user/DoodlesByAdzie)
(Check out her 4 TOBUSCUS animations here,here,here, and here)

Annnnnnnnnnnd then the OTHER SIDE
"Toby Turner... Our new celebrity" - Professor Snape
About 20 guys climbed over the fence with him (and 1 or 2 girls)
Meanwhile Toby was being Mobbed, Seth was just mingling with the Audience Members/Close friends of his, actually being able to take pictures and sign stuff, which was nice.

        Soon Toby decided this was a mistake, and people were going to get hurt, so to his best ability, he tried to get through the crowd once more, and leave to prevent any more injuries.

        About 100 feral Audience chased him, and surrounded the Taxi that was waiting for him at a red light. They banged on the windows and car, and blocked the streets which just caused a big mess. When the Taxi got free, some audience members attempted to run after the Taxi, yelling about not letting Toby escape.
Toby attempting to tell his fans to stand still and let him go.

Toby driving away in a taxi, saying the last goodbye.

AFTER-MATH
     4 police cars, a medical motorcycle, 2 Ambulance cars, and 1 big ambulance came to the scene. One girl got seriously stabbed from climbing the fence and I believe went to the hospital, someone pierced their shoe when climbing it, others fell over and got trampled, and one witness says they saw someones foot get run over by the taxi (ow).

Police threatened to arrest people if they didn't stop recording and leave the premises

Also 2 other famous youtubers came, TheSyndicateProject and Piddleass, who were also mobbed when seen.
He's pretty good looking. damn.
(Click photo to see it bigger) Tom voicing his experience about the London Mob on Twitter
     Kate also voices on twitter: "Saw @TobyTurner :D he lead the biggest rape train ever!!! And left @ProSyndicate to deal with the cops xD"

All in all, Toby managed his situation in a very cool, mature manner. He thought of others first, and really tried to keep things calm.

        I guess I could understand why the fans chased after him when he tried to get away. Some of them were waiting for 5 hours, and ones who didn't come that early did have to wait 40 minutes because Toby and Seth were late. Also this is their IDOL, the legend himself in your country... I guess one would get carried away and want him to stay, at any means possible.

Videos of the Riot (Beware headphone users): (***** = good video coverage and quality)
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE3tV7rSAiQ&feature=related ***** (Video explaining the Riot and shows the crazyness of it)
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7k-g-q_iSk&feature=related ***** (Shows his entrance and him climbing the fence)
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2DlQ3rpXNI&feature=related ***** (Includes him talking to Adzie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdCKucqsQoc (includes him talking to Adzie) ****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcrktGFzIso&feature=plcp (Adzies video) *****
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOquDlxtrUg&feature=related (Him climbing over the fence and talking to Adzie)****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prlaln67PIg ***
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2gsRCCJWPA (front row seats of behind the scenes of his Lazy Vlog and him climbing over the fence) ***
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWn_gmhMDS0&feature=related *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chvmTHmxjNY&feature=related ** (people,people, so many people and the po-pos)

(there are many many many more videos, which you can find yourselves, but the total footage collected is well over 10 hours, which I do no have time to watch)

    IMPORTANT NOTE:  Only about 20% of the 2,o00 Brit's were obnoxious, rude individuals, and the guy to girl ratio was even,  both genders were hugging, and mobbing him equally.

Oh and 1 more quote from tumblr... "AUDIENCE MEMBERS!!! HOW DARE YOU MOB TOBY! I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED! HE IS NOW SCARRED FOR LIFE, AND IT IS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT! IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE, YOU WILL BE KICKED STRAIGHT OUT OF THIS FANDOM! Oh, and Toby dear, good job on being so sweet and mature about this. All of us normal audience members are so proud." - http://sun-in-the-morning.tumblr.com/ (It's for you Tobuscus/Harry Potter fans out there)

Ps: If I left out anything about this event, please comment and I'll add it in (:

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