″I think it’s great, but after a week or so I’m ready to see them go home.The Board of the Iowa Motion Picture Association serves our membership through professional development workshops, networking events and advancement opportunities, connecting films and filmmakers with cast and crew, and promoting Iowa’s moving image production industry in all its forms throughout Iowa. ″It’s nice to see a small, boring town come alive,″ said Mrs. Sturgis residents Ken and Barb Grosch were on Main Street on Saturday night with their video camera to record the procession of bikes and bikers. An Outlaws gang member who was shot in the neck was allowed to travel home to Atlanta on Sunday and was not immediately charged. The bar brawl at Gunner’s Lounge and Casino Saturday night erupted between rival from the Outlaws and Sons of Silence motorcycle gangs, he said.Īggravated assault charges will be filed against two Sons of Silence gang members who were hospitalized in serious condition with stab wounds, authorities said. Officers issued 1,060 traffic tickets and 2,143 warnings. There were 133 reported traffic collisions, 78 involving injuries. Law officers had made 202 drunken driving arrests and 73 drug arrests by Sunday. ″A lot of them feel it was a little too much, but a lot of them realize this is a once-in-a-lifetime crowd, too,″ she said. 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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