IN PICTURES: Carnage and Playtime on Broad Street

Infamous club event sees students ravage the streets of Birmingham

13 years ago

Amber Morgan | News

Scenes of drunken depravity unfolded when hundreds of students descended on Birmingham’s Broad Street for the annual Carnage UK event.

Criticised in the past for encouraging binge drinking and anti-social behaviour, organisers probably haven’t done much to enhance their reputation with Sunday night’s events.

Er… bunny style?

Infamous for reducing students to shivering, emotional chunder-dragons with a penchant for sitting on pavements, this year the Players and Playboy Bunnies theme did not disappoint, leaving undergrads who attended hopping around in the cold.

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Even the Carnage t-shirts which the event provides for entry to bars and £1 discounted drinks seemed to disintegrate as the night went on.

Er… not a happy bunny.

Plummeting temperatures on Sunday night of course called for female students to burrow into their wardrobes for lots of warm and cosy layers such as micro skirts, tiny hot pants and skimpy tops in addition to the compulsory rabbit ears and tails.

Displaying the efforts of that hard slog through the wardrobe... Maybe a bit of blusher will warm you up.

Displaying the efforts of that hard slog through the wardrobe… Yep, maybe a bit of blusher will warm you up.

One of the aforementioned chunder dragons…

And emotional wrecks…

No pavement for this one… kudos to her buds.

The unhappy bunny… perhaps she couldn’t find a playmate.

Other drunken revellers were seen flashing their bras, albeit unintentionally, while one worse-for-wear girl is pictured having a minor breakdown in the back of a taxi… maybe a DMC would help?

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It all seemed a bit much for some, and by the end of the night most had retreated to the relative comfort of kebab shops or sought out a shoulder to catch 40 winks.

Failing that, the pavement is always a good place for a rest.

An attempt to re-enact THAT scene from Wolf of Wall Street…?

Crouching bunny, hidden dragon?

Having a weep over the lack of 'sausages' left in the shop

Possibly having a weep over the lack of ‘sausages’ left in the er… shop?

Hey, it could be worse… at least she’s found a shoulder.

However, we can at least take comfort in the fact that the West Midlands Police confirmed they monitored the area into the early hours but no incidents were logged, and although the West Midlands Ambulance Service were in the area, paramedics didn’t have any call outs.

Chats with the p-dizzles.

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So thankfully, this year there was no repeat of the 2009 incident in Sheffield which resulted in 19-year-old student Philip Laing being ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service and pay a £185 fine after admitting desecrating a poppy wreath.

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