A Justin Bieber Concert from August 2011
What’s worthy of a state of emergency? A flood, a swarm of killer bees, a nationwide blackout … screaming fan girls? When Justin Bieber arrived in Oslo Norway to perform four new songs as part of his “Around the World” tour, fans from all over Europe charged to Oslo to be the first to hear the new tunes and see the Biebs in person.
Anyone who’s ever been to a concert knows how crazy it can get when fans are screaming hysterically, jumping up and down and rushing to be closest to the stage. Now imagine this with tens of thousands of people crammed in front of an opera house. Not pretty… not pretty at all.
The Oslo police had so much trouble controlling the fans that they begged Justin to help in any way, whether that meant sending a message to the audience or starting the show early to get it over with. They were threatening to declare a state of emergency if the crowd couldn’t be subsided. JB took to his Twitter account and urged his fans to calm down and listen to the police.
As cool as it would have been to hear the new songs, is getting trampled in a crowd worth it?