riot for $20

apparently twenty bucks can start a riot.  i met the guy who, for a crisp jackson, asked the band at a popular pub to play a rage against the machine tune.  i didn't know that hawaii, with it's peaceful mellow music and island style reggae had any rage fans who would know exactly what to do when they heard zach de la rocha (or the cover band equivalent) thrashing out leftist rants against corporate domination, cultural imperialism and government oppression.  but to my surprise, they did!  they moshed, started punching people, breaking shit, and eventually getting thrown out of the place.   the bouncers stepped in and started tossing people out.  and not in the style where someone is politely asked to leave or told they are no longer going to be served another drink and it was time to call a cab, but in the old school saloon style where the begrudgingly newly uninvited guest was literally thrown out on his ass.  after the chaos was controlled was cleared and the band moved on to a much more somber of a song, the people still danced.  their toes bloodied by broken mugs of guinness and whiskey.  and the flower girl skipped out unscathed. just another day selling flowers at the biker bar.  oh, and the guy who's twenty started it all... three days later he told me his version of the story with mischievous pride.  he showed no signs of battle wounds from the night.  just like zach himself, instigating but safely protected from the crowd.