Posted on 07/24/2010 9:32:19 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Duisburg, Germany - At least 10 people died Saturday at a techno-music festival in the German city of Duisburg when crowds of people were crushed in a tunnel leading to the event grounds, police said.
Early reports by news channel NTV said that 15 people had been resuscitated by emergency rescue staff following the crush at the Love Parade event, which reportedly occurred when a security control point was overwhelmed by festival goers.
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Big crowds are dangerous. Always, no matter what. Those so-called “public viewing” events, where hundreds of thousands of people watch a soccer game together on some big inner-city boulevard, are also always dangerous. I always cringe when I see people bring their little kids to such events. Evidently they have no idea what a mass panic looks like; or how dangerous a little crush can become when enough people are involved.
The politics threw it out of Berlin because they kept fighting over the clean-up.
My wife walked in the first Loveparade on the Kudamm. She is best friends with the Lady who owned “Summer Love” the official magazine for the Loveparade. They just met with the babies last week although her friend was only babysitting for someone, but calls it “my baby”.
For the record my wife is Far Right - LoL!
I think when the people density is high enough some folks will freak out and then the mass starts moving. Christian or not.
Remember Dr. Motte?Yeah, I remember Motte, and the incredibly vapid love-speeches he held on the parades. I wonder how much money he made out of all this.The politics threw it out of Berlin because they kept fighting over the clean-up.
My wife walked in the first Loveparade on the Kudamm.I was there a few times, too, also once when it was on the Kuhdamm already. I am not sure if it was the first time, but one of the first. I do not remember the year, only that it was incredibly hot weather that day.
For the record my wife is Far Right - LoL!The “politics” of the Love Parade always seemed so ridiculously infantile and vapid that it was easy for me to ignore, too. The parties were quite good, especially in the early years. Later on, the crowds consisted less of pretty almost-nekkid girls and more of old drunkards looking for a reason to down a few extra Schultheiss. I didn’t particularly regret it when it ended at last.
“the crowds consisted less of pretty almost-nekkid girls and more of old drunkards looking for a reason to down a few extra Schultheiss.”
That must have been when i made the scene.
LOL!
Freak show. No sort of party I’d want to attend.
“There’s a clear lesson to be learned here: Nothing good can ever come of playing techno music.”
Can’t be said enough. It also goes the same for rap music.
Awful. I avoid crowds ever since a bad experience at Mardi Gras. The crowd was so close I was lifted right off my feet and moved. Fortunately, no one was injured.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Reminds me of my trip to South Korea this spring. The older guys who had been there before (including ex-military who had been stationed there) told me that if you ever see a large crowd gathering, don’t hang around to see what it’s about, get the hell out of there. Another thing to look out for is a large gathering of police. If you see either of those two things, rioting, flying molotov cocktails, tear gas, and cops swinging billy clubs at anything not wearing a uniform is soon to follow. Not good.
I once played tuba and I resent this.
The place you do not want to be is IN FRONT OF the tuba player. Ve haff veys.... O=;^)
Panicked fans, thinking they were missing the start of the concert (it was actually still almost an hour away) started screaming and hollering and rushing for the entrances to the arena. My wife and I were literally lifted off our feet for a brief moment as we squeezed into one of the entrances. Once the hysterical maniacs got into the arena and saw that the concert hadn't actually begun, things calmed down pretty quickly, but was that one scary moment!
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