They've got some kind of riot going on among the passengers.
There's an intellectual riot going on in New York, and we're part of it.
"There's a riot going on - two of our scabs got their arms broken last night."
As it happened, there was a small riot going on in the park adjacent to the United Nations, only three blocks away.
She could only hope that all their attention was distracted by the riot going on in the building.
Complicating everything were the riots and demonstrations going on in the large cities of Cuba.
There was a riot going on in the laboratory, but Arthur did not care for family quarrels.
On the bridge, less than three hundred meters away, there was a riot going on.
- and it sounds like there's a riot going on in the common room!
"It was like there was a riot going on."