Video: Undie 500 descends into chaos

Hey let's light fires and jump over them in the street. Funny hah hah. While we are at it let's bottle a cop. At your age, I was almost a trained nurse. Forget about your professions, if you are doing this stuff at 18 and 19 years old, I doubt you will ever be fit for a career. Truth hurts.

This is pathetic. The University should be made to cover the costs of the police, time wasted by the courts and the street clean up afterwards. Sending out letters asking students to behave is too passive...street wardens clearly haven't worked either. The University needs to take responsibility for its students and billing the University for the costs incurred to the city (rate payers pay for the Police, courts, street cleaning etc) will make the University sit up and take notice; the students and the University get away with it every time. Local alcohol outlets should also be in the frame as most of those involved in these events are normally intoxicated. Those presecuted and dealt with by the courts should be asked to leave the University. Non student residents in this part of the city are sick and tired of this type of behaviour and the lack of management of students by the University. The current strategy for dealing with this type of behaviour clearly isn't working. Blaming the Police is futile as is blaming the Indie 500 - neither start fires, throw bottles etc. It's the students of the University that are to blame and need to take full responsibility...end of.

I think it deserves to be pointed out that the fires and disorderly behaviour that inevitably led to the rioting were well underway before the Undie cars even arrived in Dunedin. The Undie merely serves as a catalyst for everyone who wants a riot to agree on a single weekend. But the Canterbury students can't be blamed. Based on what was said by the people I spoke to during and after the disorder, the front line of people bottling the police were third year Otago students.

One word. Embarrassing. All I can say is i really hope a whole lot of stupid kids got arrested. I'm all for having a good night out, and I must admit I did not hear anything at all last night in my flat just one block over from Castle street. But seriously guys you have got to grow up sometime. And I can guarantee that in a few years you're going to be the ones posting these kind of messages and stating how much you cannot wait to get out of the student ghetto that is Dunedin North.
Live it up while you can but hey show the police a little respect they're pritty good people and I'm sure they have better things to do with their time than babysit a bunch of second years. So to the people who got arrested last night HAHA and I hope you'll take just as much pleasure in lighting fires and smashing bottles once you have been kicked out of uni, and we'll see how relaxed the law is once the proctor's not there to protect you.

Its interesting to see that the aggression begins when the police get there - I think that if they keep a lower profile there would be less trouble, bottle-throwing etc. And surely so long as students keep their bad behaviour to themselves it's not a big deal what they do? Anyone who isn't a student should have enough sense to stay away from Castle St on Undie night if they don't want trouble.
Apart from that, fires are dangerous, but only to people who get too close, and maybe they'll gain some common sense if some of them get hurt cos emergency services aren't keeping an eye on them for once. Try just leaving them to it. Two things to previous posters - students don't need to give the other young people in Dunedin a bad reputation, they do it themselves - last year there were as many arrests of Dunedin residents who were not studying as Otago students. And Generation Me (of which I am one) are the way we are because of the way we've been brought up - just saying.

It is absolutely digusting that once again these little spoilt rats have once again ruined what used to be a fantastic event. Why don't the police just ban the undie 500 altogether - they know when it's happening, stop them entering Dunedin. If I was a parent to one of those kids throwing beer bottles at police, I would be ashamed. These students need to grow up or go to another town and trash that.

But I'm a law abiding one. I don't go about drinking, rioting, and urinating. I'm busy studying. I want to see the following: Expulsion of all those there on camera. That's it - expel the lot of them.  Entrance exams for all first year students at Otago for every subject during orientation week. Aany grade under 80% will mean no entrance to any department in any subject.

Notice the huge difference in atmosphere and behaviour with and without the presence of cops? Here's a novel idea - leave them alone and don't provoke them. They will eventually go home to bed and the world will keep on spinning.

As a young person in Dunedin who doesn't study, it disappoints me to see this footage, because I tend to get lumped into the whole "just another scarfie" . I personally think these people are playing up for the cameras and wouldn't behave so badly if they couldn't get their 5 seconds of infamy. But what I don't get is why haven't they been arrested for breaking the liquour ban?
Or why doesn't the police pink sticker these cars? Come on Otago students (and by that I mean the minority of them), get your act together, your making the rest of the people under the age of 30 look bad.