MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s typically violent disputes between avenue performers reached a brand new degree this week when a gaggle of guitar-toting mariachis attacked a flame-swallower.
What occurred subsequent was, maybe, predictable.
In accordance with safety digital camera footage obtained by The Related Press, the mariachis of their white jackets at first appeared to be profitable, punching the flame-swallower to the bottom and kicking him on the sidewalk in entrance of a taco restaurant named Hell.
The video then reveals the mariachis — some with clothes in flames — operating away. The flame-swallower had doused them with flammable liquid from a small can and set them alight. The mariachis rapidly shed their garments or extinguished the flames. None returned to the battle.
As a result of competitors for ideas in Mexico is so fierce, performers and windshield washers typically stake out and defend profitable avenue corners. Avenue vendor teams in Mexico Metropolis typically sq. off with cudgels and generally weapons over territory.
It’s not clear how Sunday’s dispute started within the metropolis of Morelia west of the capital. Police mentioned in a press release that no person was arrested and solely the flame-swallower needed to be handled at a hospital.
Police mentioned he instructed them he had argued with the mariachis, who then attacked him.
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