The word 'mayhem' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a chaotic or violent situation, as in, "The street was filled with mayhem after the football game."
As that drone floated surreally over the Belgrade pitch on 14 October, sparking the extraordinary mayhem that followed on the pitch, it was just the latest incident to make that stance look naive at best and dangerous at worst.
Four years ago a Euro 2012 qualifier with Italy was suspended amid scenes of mayhem.
For all its reputation for causing emotional mayhem, puberty might be a stabilising force on our perceptions.
But at that time there was so much confusion, so much information flowing from everywhere – in retrospect we know that this many people came from here, but at the time it was just mayhem".
The mayhem was triggered when Mr Agius refused to serve Buck more alcohol, after topping up his glass 15 times in the course of the 10-hour flight from Seattle to London, where REM were due to play a "Freedom Day" concert in Trafalgar Square in honour of Nelson Mandela.
They have also walked away from other kinds of mayhem.
In a disproportionately large number of what could be termed "social catastrophes", alcohol featured hugely – squatting right at the centre of the mayhem in the manner of a smirking dipsomaniac goblin.
Such massive experience and exposure over a 20-year period – as well as his close friendship with the then superstar Reynolds – led to his directorial debut, Smokey and the Bandit, based on his own story of an easy-going, womanising "good ol' boy", who transports Coors beer across state lines, causing mayhem along the way.
This mayhem went on for what seemed an eternity.
Earlier on Saturday, federal justice minister Peter MacKay said: "This appeared to be a group of murderous misfits that were coming here, or were living here, and prepared to wreak havoc and mayhem on our community.
He resigned as Tony Abbott's parliamentary secretary amid the ensuing mayhem Given to the Australian newspaper for this magnificently pompous editorial complaining about the "callow reporters and trainee talking heads" dominating the Australian media.
