Juggalos: Would they throw rocks and poop at your face?

Tila Tequila's bruised face has been popping up on gossip blogs after she was attacked last weekend by a crowd at Gathering of the Juggalos. The brutal onslaught—the crowd pelted the MTV star while she was performing—seems stranger than fiction to those unfamiliar with the horrorcore-music gathering, held annually in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois.

We won't argue with that. Last year we published this feature on the Gathering of the Juggalos aptly subtitled "Violent misfits or harmless horrorcore fiends?" Guess we found out that answer last weekend. Here are some enlightening quotes from our article about the gathering (which TMZ sold short by innocuously calling it a "concert in Illinois").

-a T-shirt says IT AIN’T RAPE IF IT’S DEAD
-a carny will sell you a jumbo turkey leg he calls the Bitch Beater because “it’s so big, if you hit a bitch with it, she ain’t gettin’ back up.”
-a Juggalo  told me, unprovoked, that he’d just finished fucking my mother in a toilet
-“This ’lette was showing her titties. And this cop was like, ‘Nah, stop showing your titties,’ and she didn’t. So this cop pinned her up against the wall with a nightstick, and all the Juggalos that were there surrounded the cop, beat the shit out of him. They called in the riot squad, shot tear gas, rubber bullets—a couple Juggalos lost eyes.”
-we asked a Juggalette from Hell, Michigan—a town with a population of less than 300—if she felt like an outcast back home. “Oh, no,” she said. “There must be 30 or 40 Juggalos in Hell.”
-In the words of ICP cofounder Violent J, “It’s sort of what I imagine it’s like for Muslims to visit the holy land of Mecca.”