Karaoke can be a brutal recreation, as many people take their non-professional singing careers very seriously. Things got quite a bit out of hand in Stamford, Connecticut in September after a group of women apparently did not like a rendition of a song.
Six women were charged with assault after they attacked 25 year old
Leidy Alacantara when she was singing
A Dios Le Pido a song sung by
Juanes, a Colombian superstar singer.
News
reports say that all six women were under the legal drinking age of 21, yet were attending karaoke night at a Stamford Connecticut bar called
Bobby Valentine's Sports Gallery Cafe. Alacantara told police her attackers told her she was "annoying" before they knocked her down.
Alacantara suffered a chipped tooth along with bruises after the six women attacked her while she was singing. She told press that she was knocked to the floor, punched and her hair was pulled. The reason for the violence - apparently the women did not like the rendition being performed by the woman they attacked.
However, the young woman charged with assault
say that the story is wrong. They claim they weren't drinking, but Alacantara was drunk. One of the women said Alacantra started the fight, and that's where things got wild and crazy, turning into a melee.
Fights don't always break out over kareoke singing, but it has been known to happen regularly. In
2006, a man was beaten to death for trying to stop a kareoke fight in New York. He was jumped after the bar closed. A gunman
killed two men at a karaoke bar in California in 2000. In Australia last December, a man threw
petrol bombs into a karaoke club, but fortunately no one was injured.
Bobby Valentine's holds
karaoke nights every Wednesday from 9 pm to closing time. If you don't live in Connecticut, there likely is a karaoke bar in your town or city.
