No arrests made as thousands of students party in Southampton

10:17am Friday 19th October 2012 in News

Students' Carnage night pases without a hitch Students' Carnage night pases without a hitch

THOUSANDS of students took to the streets of Southampton last night for an evening of drinking and partying that went without a hitch.

Students from the University of Southampton and Solent Southampton University donned their Carnage t-shirts for the notorious organised pub crawl through the city centre.

However, while previous years has seen drunken behaviour cause outrage among residents, including one young person seen urinating on the Cenotaph in Watts Park, this year's event passed without any major incidents, with police confirming that there were no arrests made.

Beefed up security by organisers, which saw 12 security guards working until 4am, including two posted on the Cenotaph and another guarding the Titanic Engineers' Memorial, ensured any trouble was quickly suppressed.

Those students too drunk to continue the crawl had their t-shirts spray painted with a black “X” to indicate to other bars along the route to refuse entry.

But most were in high spirits, singing in queues, writing messages on each other's t-shirts and there was plenty of friendly rivalry between the two universities.

Comments(15)

Linesman says...
10:28am Fri 19 Oct 12

The word Passes contains the letter S three times.

Did a student write the original headline?

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one in a million says...
10:36am Fri 19 Oct 12

Two universities??? Thats a laugh...

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sotonboy84 says...
10:41am Fri 19 Oct 12

Titanic War Memorial? Not the Titanic 'Engineers' Memorial?

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cliffwalker says...
11:10am Fri 19 Oct 12

I'm afraid the standard of English in this article is just one more example of the attitudes appying generally at Test Lane. They believe that 99% of their readers won't notice and most of the rest won't care.

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mbetts says...
11:25am Fri 19 Oct 12

No arrests or fights or assaults at all?

Kids these days really don't know how to enjoy themselves!

Lightweights!

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Inform Al says...
11:29am Fri 19 Oct 12

I was in the Giddy Bridge last night when the Carnage P. heads came in. We only use the Giddy Bridge because the lack of music there means we can converse and hear our friends. Due to the over the top noisy Carnage cretins we had to move to the Varsity for some peace and quiet. Whilst there I noticed a teenager walking past with no T shirt on and assumed he was speeding. Seems I may have been wromg and that he may have removed his black crossed Carnage T shirt

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pushamara says...
12:51pm Fri 19 Oct 12

Inform Al wrote:
I was in the Giddy Bridge last night when the Carnage P. heads came in. We only use the Giddy Bridge because the lack of music there means we can converse and hear our friends. Due to the over the top noisy Carnage cretins we had to move to the Varsity for some peace and quiet. Whilst there I noticed a teenager walking past with no T shirt on and assumed he was speeding. Seems I may have been wromg and that he may have removed his black crossed Carnage T shirt
Have you never in your life been out and been noisy? Why can't you just let them get on with it. I worked amongst the students last night and everyone behaved well and had a great night.

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jonnyx says...
1:03pm Fri 19 Oct 12

the headline of this story reminds me of the story about the journalist claud cockburn (from wikipedia) "There is a story that during his spell as a sub-editor on The Times, Cockburn and colleagues had a competition to devise the most accurate yet boring headline. Cockburn claimed the honours with "Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many Dead."

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peenut81 says...
1:05pm Fri 19 Oct 12

Inform Al, surprised you drink out in the evening are you sure you are ok to drive at the high speeds you indicated yesterday in another

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Linesman says...
2:26pm Fri 19 Oct 12

cliffwalker wrote:
I'm afraid the standard of English in this article is just one more example of the attitudes appying generally at Test Lane. They believe that 99% of their readers won't notice and most of the rest won't care.
Them just dun tawk an spel like wot we duz. Sew much fer edjacation.

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Shoong says...
3:40pm Fri 19 Oct 12

'Carnage' without a hitch? Doesn't sound like much Carnage to me.

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Huffter says...
5:00pm Fri 19 Oct 12

cliffwalker wrote:
I'm afraid the standard of English in this article is just one more example of the attitudes appying generally at Test Lane. They believe that 99% of their readers won't notice and most of the rest won't care.
Hence the headline: "Retired Priest to stand TRAIL over child sex abuse"

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chunky_lover says...
8:06pm Fri 19 Oct 12

babes!

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andysaints007 says...
10:48pm Fri 19 Oct 12

I am loving the way the usual whiners are complaining about the article and yet they continually come on this site!!
If you really have such an issue with the Echo why do you even bpther coming on here you sad muppets

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andysaints007 says...
10:49pm Fri 19 Oct 12

...oh dear a spelling mistake

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