Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishChaos unfolded on a small island in Georgia as Spring Breakers descended onto its once serene beaches to binge drink and leave mountains of trash in their wake.The long-standing Orange Crush festival on Tybee Island, just outside the city of Savannah, was just as rowdy as its always been, with college students from nearby HBCUs and other universities letting loose.The music started on Saturday around 3pm, four hours behind schedule, and by around 4pm, attendees were flowing in. The festival was in full swing, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted.Police were stationed outside the event this year – a lesson the area learned the hard way in 2023 when the festival devolved into ‘complete mayhem,’ in the words of Tybee Island’s mayor, Brian West.Still, the boys in blue did nothing to prevent unruly students from getting into organized brawls as crowds gleefully surrounded to watch.Even two women were seen wrestling with one another as a mob of people cheered and recorded every blow and takedown. The energy appeared to be contagious, mostly since one girl, still in her bikini, was arrested and seen getting hauled away in cuffs for allegedly beating another girl with her purse.With number of attendees thought to be as many as 50,000, cops simply couldn’t regulate everything. Festival participants were freely able to spark up joints and toss their empty liquor bottles into the sand. Two women at this year’s Orange Crush festival on Tybee Island, Georgia, are seen wrestling with one another on Saturday afternoon Two men also got in on the action, fighting each other as beachgoers encircle them and cheer them on Georgia State University students, ranging from age 21 to 22, happily twerk for the camera Attendance for the annual event, which had a permit with the city to last until 8pm on Saturday, was thought to be as many as 50,000 Binge drinking was practically a required for admission into the off-the-wall festival Festival participants were also freely able to spark up joints on the normally serene beach Pictured: An anonymous Spring Breaker rolls a marijuana joint on the beach Pictured: All the beach brawls may have inspired this woman, who was arrested by police for allegedly beating another woman with her purseIf you think Saturday’s all-day party on Tybee Island was out of control, 2023’s bash was on another level entirely. An estimated 111,000 visitors – more than double the number of people at this year’s festival – made the entire island a war zone.A police officer was hit in the head with a bottle, two attendees were beaten and robbed on the beach and several young women ran to cops fearing that they would be sexually assaulted by the drunken hordes of college-aged men.Mayor Brian West said that wasn’t all, however, as the mania spilled into the parking lot of the beach.’Parking area basically became disaster areas because we had people who were either shooting off fireworks that sounded like guns, or they were actually shooting guns, and people were running and stampeding… it was riotous. It was really bad,’ West told Fox 5.’Our whole region of southeast Georgia has nothing but bad memories about this event [in recent years],’ Mayor West told Fox. ‘It got out of control whenever people got involved who weren’t really college students. They were coming just to try and make money or whatever.’ Just like every year, partiers left Tybee Island’s beach covered in trash on Saturday, be it empty bottles or discarded food containers.Dutiful volunteers had to be the ones to clean up the debris left over from an entire day’s worth of debauchery. Though, once night fell, they at least had the help of state Department of Natural Resources officers, who shone their headlights on the messiest parts of the sand. Three girls look on as one of their friends lean over and twerks in their direction Some areas of the beach during the festival were shoulder-to-shoulder One Spring Breaker was seen being carried out on a stretcher after suffering an apparent medical emergency State Department of Natural Resources officers are pictured on ATVs. They’d later help dozens of volunteers pick up trash by shining their headlights on the messiest areas of the sand As usual, Spring Breakers left mounds of garbage all over the island’s beachesCity officials were surprisingly okay with Spring Breakers coming and trashing their island, just as long as more serious criminality was kept at bay.On Wednesday, the island’s City Manager Bret Bell said at a press conference that ‘Tybee has always been one of the great host communities of the South, and this weekend will be no different.’Troublemakers are never welcome on Tybee Island, and this is no exception to that. But if you’re here to have a good time on one of the most beautiful spots on Earth, we welcome you with open arms.’ The bash was previously held over the entire weekend, Friday. Saturday and Sunday, but this year it only took place on Saturday, as per the agreement with officials, and had a strict ending time of 8pm.Some attendees were actually pleased with the more rigid controls on the festival, which included a larger police presence than in years past.’Everybody’s heard the stories, but this isn’t that,’ recent college graduate Nyia Kempr told the Journal-Constitution. ‘This is spring break.’Even with a greater number of cops, the festival was bound to have some mishaps. A crash on Bull River Bridge on Saturday afternoon led to an epic traffic jam as people desperately rushed to get to the beach.One Spring Breaker was seen being carried out on a stretcher after suffering an apparent medical emergency.There was also reports of a shots fired on Tybee Island just before 8pm. One person was injured and taken to the hospital, but officials stressed that their belief that the shooting wasn’t connected to the festival.
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