Events work best when the people organizing them are doing it just because they want everyone who attends to have fun.
Events with a spiteful or mean component or events that go "well everyone isn't going to have fun and I don't care about those who don't" are events that don't go well.

The TSA event would have been funny if it took 30-60 seconds to get to the punch line and everyone moved on to the main event. It shouldn't be a surprise that people left to do something else after having to wait so long.
And the fighting here after was wholly inappropriate. It's pretty obvious that there are a lot of people more motivated by spite and the desire to fight over things that really don't matter, rather than the goal of everyone having fun.