Teen ‘Fight Clubs’ Erupt on Packed La Jolla Beaches (Video)

When Chuck Palahniuk released his seminal, debut novel Fight Club in 1996, most teenagers today weren’t even born yet. Nor were the denizens of so-called Gen Z alive when the hit movie adaptation hit theaters in 1999, starring Brad Pitt and Ed Norton.

And yet, the legacy of catharsis through fisticuffs lives on.

In the wealthy San Diego, CA hamlet of La Jolla Shores, police are cracking down on what they’re calling organized and violent fight clubs, or large groups of teens showing up at Marine Street Beach...