Spring and summer festival season is here, and that means a lot of fun in Michigan is on the way.
Unfortunely, one Michigan festival over the weekend got shut down, due to reports of people with guns. Read on for the full story.
According to the Detroit News, officials in a Detroit suburb made the decision to shut down an annual festival a day early, following some fights breaking out and reports of guns in the audience. The event was the annual Berkley Days festival, which started last Thursday (May 11) and was scheduled to run through Sunday (May 14). According to the newspaper, broke out at the festival around 7 p.m. Saturday.
A statement sent out by the Berkley Department of Public Safety says that shortly after the fights broke out, officers responded to the fights. That’s when reports of people with guns in the crowd sent attendees running out of the event space. With all the chaos, officials made the decision to cancel the festival for the remainder of Saturday evening. They also pulled the plug on Sunday’s scheduled events.
As it turns out, according to a statement from the Berkley Department of Public Safety, officers found several toy guns on the festival grounds but no real firearms. Nobody was hurt, which is a good thing. Let’s hope the rest of festival season goes more smoothly.
Michigan Is One Of The Angriest States In America
10. Michigan
Michigan ranked number 10 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 33.08. Though Michigan’s fatalities caused by road rage is only 0.1 percent, its hate crimes per capita is at 7.7 percent.
9. Massachusetts
Massachusetts ranked number 9 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 37.39. Toxic internet comments were a part of the study and this state scored high with 6.8 percent. Massachusetts hate crimes per capita is at 5.63. Lower than Michigan’s in the number 10 spot.
8. New Jersey
New Jersey ranked number 8 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 42.83 percent. New Jersey also made it onto Alcohol.org’s angriest states list.
7. Connecticut
Connecticut ranked number 7 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 43.08 percent. The state has 5.7 percent of fatalities caused by road rage with a low road rage fatalities per capita at 0.4 percent.
6. Washington
Washington ranked number 6 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 46.90 percent. They also served up a high toxic internet comments percentage of 6.8 according to the Best Life study.
5. Vermont
Vermont ranked number 5 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 55.34 percent. Though the fatalities caused by road rage are at zero percent. The state is at 5.29 percent hate crimes per capita.
4. Indiana
Indiana ranked number 4 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 64.20. The state also came in with high percentages with fatalities caused by road rage at 10 percent and hate crimes per capita at 1.11 percent.
3. South Carolina
South Carolina ranked number 3 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 70.42 percent. The state’s high toxic internet comments percentage was at 9.8 percent according to the Best Life study.
2. Colorado
Colorado ranked number 2 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 70.42. Their road rage per capita is low at 0.9 percent. However, the study shows that fatalities caused by road rage in Colorado are at 9.5%.
1. Alabama
Alabama ranked number 1 on Best Life’s Angriest States in America list with an anger index score of 100. The only 100 anger index score on the list. At the time of the study Alabama had limited data on hate crimes per capita.
