According to New York Daily News, the impatient midget ladies (if you consider 1.70 m a midget size for a top model) were scared to death when an overheated car made its appearance at the already fidgety scene. "There's a bomb!" panicked voices started to yell. All that fuss for nothing because, in fact, there was no bomb there seemingly intended to put the brakes on the poor midget women's aspirations of becoming top models, rather a black BMW with smoke pouring out of its hood.
Even if it wasn't a bomb, the incident put an end on the audition and the remaining tiny ladies missed the chance of their lives to become someone really important in the modeling industry. Isn't that awful?!
"I'm 5-foot-3. There's no way I can make it into a model agency," said Kiara McCarthy, 19, of Levittown . "They would turn me away at the door. We had an opportunity and it was taken away from us."
However, this scary incident was only part of a nightmarish day of the aspiring miniature top models. Impatient ladies slept overnight outside the Park Central Hotel, hoping to be the first to appear in front of the show's casting agents. But their dreams soon vanished as more and more women appeared at the scene shortly after the sun rose and lined up indiscriminately.
Because order lacked completely from the rows, the small ladies began rioting. But the icing on the cake came after when the aspiring top models were told that they couldn't come back in in case they stepped out of the line.
"I had to pee in a cup and change my clothes in the street," said Mona Knight, 18, of the Bronx, who arrived at 11:30 p.m. Friday night. "There was no organization whatsoever."
Quite obviously, cops came at the scene to calm down the crowd composed of several thousand "tiny" ladies. They placed barricades along the street and because of the fact that they were pressed against the wall, some women fainted.
"Everyone was so compressed, I don't think they could breathe," said Alex Saavedra, 23, who escorted his girlfriend to the audition. "Then they started passing out."
As if all these weren't already crazy enough, two men started to fight and when the cops separated them, one of them threatened to come with a gun. Just perfect...
By the time the model nightmare ended, six women were injured and two women and one man were busted for inciting a riot.
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