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Posted: 2020-05-20T00:35:04Z | Updated: 2020-05-20T03:31:55Z

A wild beach event last weekend in Galveston County, Texas, led to more than 180 arrests and a fairly hilarious viral news segment.

Thousands of people gathered on the Gulf Coasts Bolivar Peninsula to celebrate Go Topless Jeep Weekend, an annual event that seemed to have more meaning this year for people who had lived the past two months mostly stuck in their homes.

We been in quarantine and, like, I need to get out and party, beachgoer Chelsey Coyer told Galveston NBC affiliate KBMT in a news report that has since gone viral.

Coyer claimed she was taking precautions to keep from getting the coronavirus by washing her hands for 20 seconds, but the stations video of the event captured lots of people twerking without masks as well as drinking and standing very close together.

Police at the event admitted that enforcing social distancing was pretty much impossible, the New York Post noted.

We do what we can. We cannot control individuals or what people do as far as their life. We just try to manage the best way and whatever scenario occurs, Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset told KBMT.

Trochesset later told NBC News that two men were shot in their torsos after an argument. Both had to be airlifted to a hospital. Their conditions havent been released. Police were looking for a third man who fled the scene.

All told, more than 180 attendees were taken into custody for numerous unrelated crimes, including assault, driving without wearing a seatbelt, driving while intoxicated and public drunkenness, NBC News reported.

By comparison, 80 people were arrested and six people were taken to the hospital at the 2019 event.

A few locals were disappointed in some of the attendees behavior.

Bolivar resident Justin Weaver wondered to Fox News why we cant have nice things.

I dont know why its so hard for people just to show up and have fun these days, Weaver said. It disappoints me to see that kind of violence come to here because its usually real quiet here. Its just disappointing to see thats the kind of thing thats happening.

On the other hand, KBMTs coverage of the event went viral thanks to footage that amply demonstrates how crazy people can get after two months at home.

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