Thaindian News

April 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Canadian teen who’s shows caused fans to stampede in shopping malls in both New York and Paris France, as well as getting his manager locked up for refusing to send out a Tweet canceling an event, has once again had his show canceled to protect fans from themselves…this time in Australia.

According to the Sydney Morning News, thousands of Justin Bieber fans spent the night Sunday camped out at the oversees passenger terminal at Circular Quay in Sydney Harbour for Bieber’s only scheduled concert in Australia on Monday. The teenage crowd began to scream and surge forward in waves before the singer ever appeared. According to police, the surge caused crowd barriers to break, and the girls in the front of the swarm were smashed against the stage. These girls were being crushed alive, which led to the police as well as event organizers to cancel the show altogether.

“Everybody was just shoving and pushing forward. They had two massive screens out, and they started to play Justin Bieber songs and everybody started cheering and pushing forward more,” said 13-year-old Sophie Kelly, one of four Aussie teens who won a contest to meet Bieber before the aborted show. The concert’s host came out and told the crowd the show would be canceled if everyone didn’t take two steps back and stop pushing.

“But he [the host] was acting like the whole thing was a joke, and he kept on adding Justin Bieber things in there and so people just kept on screaming and pushing forward more,” Kelly said.

The rush began when it was announced at around 2 am that Justin Bieber had arrived in Sydney. This set off a surge which continued for a few hours. Over 4000 fans were included in the incident, with 100 pulled from the crowd while being crushed into the stage, and 10 treated by paramedics. Tow were taken to the hospital with more serious injuries. Police broke up the event and told everyone to go home, which did not sit well with the fans, or their parents. “Clearly this total waste of our kids’ time, sleep and pocket money getting there was a deliberate publicity stunt designed to exploit fans,” one father told the paper.

Bieber later thanked his Australian fans by Tweet for such a warm welcome and reminded them that their safety comes first. “With everything that happened 2day I want u all 2 know I care and u all rule and if I could thank every 1 of u individually I would.”