People Don’t Trust Any Large Gathering Of Philadelphians

Above, a Carnival Cruise Lines video.

Pity the poor giant piñata! First, it gets booted from Center City to Broad and Washington; then, so many people show up on Sunday that the cops tell Carnival Cruise Lines (the people behind said giant piñata) they’re not allowed to burst it open. The horror, the horror!

The Fox 10 O’Clock News last night interviewed disturbed candy-less Philadelphians. Somehow, the giant piñata publicity stunt had turned into an enormous disaster, at least according to the tone of the onlookers.

The always excellent Emily G. explains the reason for a serious lack of piñata-bursting yesterday:

Apparently the problem was that they were unprepared for the amount of people who showed up (about 7,000, according to Mr. John Heald), and even called the police in to help. This kind of doesn’t make sense, as the people inside the fence had all been let in, most people were stuck outside. The gist I got from our friend who was inside was that they couldn’t keep people behind a line of cones or something.

Seven thousand? Man, Philadelphians will come out for anything. Anyway, at least the giant piñata stunt made wacky news pages across the land.