This episode of Swindled may contain graphic descriptions or audio recordings of disturbing events which may not be suitable for all audiences.

Listener discretion is advised.

Apparently somebody with serious asthma that's brain with a mace and they are unconscious on the stairs.

Monday, February 17th, 2008, and they are unconsored. Monday, February 17, 2003, just after 2 a.m.

It was ladies' night at the E2 nightclub above the Epidemi restaurant on South Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

A fight breaks out between two women near the DJ booth on the crowded dance floor.

Purses are flying through the air.

Punches are thrown.

Others join in to create what one witness called an endless circle of people fighting.

To stop the violence, one of E2's bouncers sprayed the crowd with pepper spray.

The chemical fumes spread throughout the club, burning the lungs and eyes of unsuspecting patrons.

Confusion abounded.

What's in the air?

Why are people choking?

I'll bet it's bin Laden.

Someone yelled.

Well, some people was like, it's been Latin in here.

I'm like, they were saying silly stuff.

Invoking that name anywhere during the height of anthrax scares and color-coded terror alerts

was akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater.

Everyone in the club screamed and ran for the exit.

There was one way out, through the inward opening

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