Denver Ozzfest turns into missile war

The Denver, Colorado leg of rock festival Ozzfest turned nasty on Saturday when music fans threw missiles including plastic bottles at each other.

During Static-X's performance, numerous items were thrown between audience members in the lawn-seat section and those in the reserved-seat section of the city's Coors Amphitheatre venue.

Fan 'Scribe2' writes on website MyFoxColorado.com: "Plastic bottles, plastic cups, plastic 'yard' glasses and chunks of turf were hurled from primarily mid-lawn as far as a third of the width of the second orchestra section. A few shoes and other items were also observed in flight.

"The fracas took on an especially sinister note when half-full bottles and empty bottles and cups were jammed full with sod, creating dangerous missiles.

"It was a shameful display of bad behaviour and a ridiculous endangerment to fellow concert-goers. A fun afternoon of music and revelry became an interesting experience I would never place myself in a position to repeat.

"By some good luck it didn't result in full-fledged rioting or morbid casualties. There were certainly enough alcohol and other mind-altering substances about to have led it that way. The amphitheatre management lucked out."