St Patrick's Day's wildest celebrations from mass hospitalisation to leprechaun's arrest

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St Patrick's Day is meant to be a time of celebration, but some revellers can go a bit far and some even see themselves in handcuffs.Although it is an Irish tradition, the celebrations of St Patrick's Day have spread all over the world with Brits, Americans and even Canadians joining in on the drunken festivities.The pavements of towns and cities are painted white, orange and green as the Guinness flows and wild antics come into play.Police are often out on the streets with multiple arrests seen over the years from people who have had a bit too much or gotten a little too rowdy — even a leprechaun.However, there have been a few cases where things have gotten a little out of control with one police chief branding actions as the “kind of violence” he had never witnessed before..In London, Ontario in Canada, some St Patrick's Day parties turned into a full on riot in 2012.Rioters fought with firefighters and police after they were called to deal with unrest at a number of student parties as their wild antics spilled onto the streets.Bottles were thrown at police and they even set a TV truck alight while using a propane tank to increase the flames.Brad Duncan, Chief of the London Police Service, his officers had "never been subjected to this kind of violence".In the US in 2011, the New Jersey city of Hoboken’s annual St.

Patrick's Day parade turned into chaos, according to the New York Times.In just a matter of hours, around 34 people were arrested with a reported 166 requiring hospital treatment, which was a record high.Incidents on the day saw a fire on someone's property, a knife man scaring people and people urinating in the streets.Not even law and order is safe from committing a felony on St Patrick’s Day as Illinois.