Chaos broke out at an America’s Next Top Model casting call in Manhattan, NY Saturday when an overheating car triggered a stampede of catwalk-craving cuties, according to the NY Daily News.
Several people in the crowd started yelling, “There’s a bomb!” The model hopefuls started screaming and running for their lives. Women in heels toppled over barricades as they bolted the scene.
Six people were hospitalized and two women and one man were arrested for inciting a riot, authorities said.
“The girls were running like it was 9/11 part two,” said Jennifer Brown, 27, of Kensington, Brooklyn. “I feared for my life.”
The audition for the The CW show, which for the first time was open to women under 5-feet-7, was doomed from the start, several said.
Some slept outside the night before to get in line.
Things got tense when the women were told if they got off the line, they couldn’t come back in.
“I had to pee in a cup and change my clothes in the street,” said Mona Knight, 18, of the Bronx, who slept on the street. “There was no organization whatsoever.”
Several thousands line up and cops had to place barricades around the line. Some women started fainting after getting pressed up against the wall.
A fight broke out between two men who had been taunting each other for several hours, witnesses said.
Cops intervened and pulled the men off the line. One of them threatened to return with a gun, heightening tensions among the already-frazzled women.
Soon after, 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.
Cops arrested three people: Clem Clemmons, 40; Vanessa Quiones, 20, and Michael Edwards. All were charged with inciting a riot.
No more women were allowed to audition after the stampede.
“I’m 5-foot-3. There’s no way I can make it into a model agency,” McCarthy said. “They would turn me away at the door. We had an opportunity and it was taken away from us.”
Wow!!!! These 5'7 girls don't play and I bet none of them are models anyway!!
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