# Riot at my office! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 2, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riot-at-my-office/329177 "2005-11-02T21:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riot-at-my-office/329177/1 "2005-11-02T21:35:40Z")
We’re not talking a scuffle over doughnuts, but the real thing! This is going on right outside our [head office in Paris](http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1273557) > [@](#): > > French fire fighters try to put out burning tires in Le Blanc-Mesnil a suburb outside Paris, early Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005. Unrest spread across troubled suburbs around Paris for a sixth night as police clashed with angry youths and vehicles were torched in at least nine towns, local officials said :eek: :eek: Luckily, I’m seven time zones away ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riot-at-my-office/329177/2 "2005-11-02T21:41:28Z")
Huh, I read the article but it didn’t really get into the two teenagers whose deaths apparently sparked the riot. Care to shed some light on the matter? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riot-at-my-office/329177/3 "2005-11-02T21:49:36Z")
The [BBC](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4399070.stm) has a good article about what happened, but it was a riot that was waiting to happen.