"Alcohol contributed significantly to the stampede as it caused general unruliness by drunken hooligans, " Namulambe said.

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He may also have been affecting a spurious veneration for the court and his belief in the judicial system, seeking to compare his deference for authority with the unruliness and general disrespect exhibited by most criminals.

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But in this case, it's actually pretty apt: The group combines the messier impulses of punk, psychedelia, '60s rock and '90s Britpop, complete with a carefully cultivated reputation for unruliness which includes (but has not been limited to) urinating on each other, vomiting onstage and setting their instruments on fire.

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