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A participant in the annual toga parade. Photo by Peter McIntosh. |
A participant in the annual toga parade. Photo by Peter
McIntosh.
Participants in the annual toga parade left a trail of
destruction through the main street of Dunedin early tonight,
smashing windows and hurling rubbish bags in the city centre.
The 2000 students, mostly first-years, were taking part in
the annual four-block march on George St to the city's
Octagon.
The students' behaviour was fuelled by residents living in
apartments on the parade route, who appeared to be waiting
for the students and threw eggs on the students on the street
below.
After the parade, George St was left littered with broken
glass, vomit, broken tables, smashed signs and damaged cars.
George St bar worker and student Erica Gold was helping clean
egg off shop windows in the aftermath and was horrified at
the destruction caused to the city.
"This is just taking it way too far. We shouldn't have to
take it, just look at the streets.''
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