![]() ![]() Myhre acknowledged that some Sturgis residents were bothered by the huge crowds and violence. There’s going to be fights,″ Kienast said. ″With this amount of people, you know there’s going to be things happen. Bill Kienast of Oshkosh, Wis., said he was attending his first rally here and would probably return despite the bloody bar brawl. ![]() Long lines of motorcycles roared out of town Sunday. ″I think that’s kind of conservative,″ Myhre said of the official estimate. Last year’s rally drew only 60,000, but officials estimated that at least 300,000 showed up during the past week. Marcy Myhre, executive director of the Sturgis Area Chamber of Commerce’s Black Hills Motor Classic Board, had predicted last fall that this year’s event could draw more than 250,000 people. Law officers shot to death a knife-wielding Australian who charged them, and another person died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a tent. ″These people all drink booze, take drugs and carry knives and guns.″ ″As I’ve said before, the potential is there,″ said Sheriff Floyd Cleland. (AP) _ The 50th Black Hills Motor Classic, which lured 300,000 bikers to this town of 7,000, had everything people here had come to expect from a motorcycle rally: choppers, tattoos, leather - and violence.Įleven people died, one man was shot and two others were stabbed in a bar brawl between motorcycle gangs, and hundreds were arrested during the weeklong event.
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