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A kid got the tips of three of his fingers cut off at a California show because the front barricade was made out of a bunch of old bike racks (they had to stop playing to look for the fingers). In a show in Reseda at the Country Club during the Against the Grain tour there was a girl in trouble in the audience and because the security was too lame to go help, Jay took matters in his own hands and stopped playing during "I Want To Conquer the World." He jumped into the crowd and pulled the injured girl onto the stage to safety. At the Dr. Music Festival a guy got to the stage and started calling Greg sell-out, fat and bald (in Spanish) while patting him on the belly and the head. Greg was just laughing and telling him I'd rather be fat than short like you. Then the guy punched Greg and Greg immediately grabbed him and furiously dragged him offstage. During a concert in the night club Erne in the town of Oiartzun, near Donosti (the Basque Country) 3,000 people in the audience were slamming to the first or second song of the show (Recipe For Hate or 21st Century Digital Boy -accounts differ) and jumping in unison when suddenly the floor collapsed sending hundreds plummeting down a hole that was 80 feet wide, and below was a lower level parking structure. Hundreds were injured and had to be taken to hospital, but luckily no one died. It happened during the European leg of the Recipe for Hate Tour. Greg has said it was the worst moment in BRs history and in January 1997 Jay described the incident as the scariest moment of his life. The builder blamed the organization for packing 4000 people in a disco with a capacity of 700. The organization blamed the builder claiming the concrete was very low quality. Both things were true. When on 4.4.1998 they played the Basque Country (Donostia) for the first time since the incident (different, bigger venue), they started the show with Recipe For Hate and Greg said "we'll start with the same song as the last time" with a cynical grin. When on 10.11.1998 NOFX played Donosti, Fat Mike started off the gig by saying "shit, it's the same place as the last time. Why don't we get venues where the floor collapses?". Oh, and the famous riots, of course.
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