Watch The Woman Who Made Bono's 911 Call Get Booed By Madison Square Garden

3 August 2015 | 4:48 pm | Staff Writer

"A stadium full of New Yorkers? I know, I'll insult 'em all!"

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If there's any consolation to be found in the absolute quagmire of human sadness that is the Adam Goodes booing saga, it's that at least the practice — however problematic it may be in our current antipodean context — isn't endemic to racist and peer-susceptible Australians, as one opinionated U2 fan found out at a show at Madison Square Garden at the weekend.

In this case, the fan in question is named Alyssa (her surname is unknown, or at least unreported), a woman from Washington, D.C. who just so happened to be the person who called 911 for frontman Bono when he crashed his bike in New York's Central Park last year.

At the time, there were legitimate concerns that Bono would never play guitar again, which came as a shock because by all accounts most people were surprised to learn that Bono could play guitar to begin with, so this past weekend's mammoth affair in the hallowed halls of the MSG evidently felt like a special kind of shindig. Thus, you can understand why Bono wanted to not only thank Alyssa but the members of Engine 44, the Upper East Side firefighting department who responded to his incident.

So, Bono mentions the "beautiful girl" who called 911, saying that she was "from Denver, but she's here tonight", before tipping his hat to Engine 44, who took their public acknowledgment with the kind of grace you'd expect from the sort of people who hurl humans out of infernos daily like it ain't no thang — they gifted Bono some booze (Jameson, as Gothamist notes) and some uplifting words. But Alyssa — Alyssa took a different tack.

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First, she felt the need to correct Bono — "So I have to clarify, it's Alyssa and I'm from D.C., not Denver," she began — before recounting the fateful day's events and managing to insult every New Yorker in the voluminous room.

"Here's what happened," she said. "I was running in Central Park, there was an accident; obviously, I had to stop and help because I'm not from New York, I'm from Virginia, where people are nice. Sorry New York!"

It's about this time that the entirety of Madison Square Garden erupts to demonstrate to Alyssa their distaste for backhanded niceties from Virginian blow-ins, their chorus of boos only rising as she attempts to cut through to get to the glory.

"Anyhow, I called 911 because no one else was doing it," Alyssa continues through the cacophony. "He would not be here tonight if it weren't for me!"

See it go down below (skip to about 1.17 for Alyssa's moment in the sun).