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How To Face The Haka: With Pepper Spray

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How To Face The Haka: With Pepper Spray

THIS is how you face down the haka. Forget the eyeballing and Morris Dance, police in Utah just reach for the pepper spray.

A group of Polynesian football fans were in Roosevelt, 200km east of Salt Lake City. They wanted to perform a haka. But police said they were preventing players from leaving the pitch.

Eyewitness Zack Aguiniga tells us:

“As we’re there watching, we could hear the cops say, ‘make a hole’. But they were in the middle of their dance, and if anyone knows the haka dance, they’re loud and talking in unison.”

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Posted: 25th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment