Michigan welfare recipients root over housing vouchers...fights, chairs thrown, elderly & kids trampled...

Imagine if welfare recipients diverted all the time spent getting handouts into something productive like work or building a business..

People waited in line overnight at the Wayne County Family Health Service Center in the Detriot area for Section 8 housing vouchers.

According to reports, only 1,000 vouchers were available for distribution. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people were in attendance. When it came time for the vouchers to be distributed, police said there was a mad rush for the door, with people jockeying for position to be the first inside the building.

Officers tried to control the crowd, but couldn't. Fearing the situation was more than they could handle, event organizers shut the entire thing down and turned off the lights inside the building. Witnesses say that's when things really got ugly. People were throwing chairs & fighting with each other.

Detroit.  What a charming town. 

-W&J's Producer