8 Tips to Follow If You’re Trapped in a Crushing Crowd
10th November 2021
NPR has you covered.
Of course, the first tip ought to be: Avoid crowds.
But I suppose that’s just me….
10th November 2021
NPR has you covered.
Of course, the first tip ought to be: Avoid crowds.
But I suppose that’s just me….
November 11th, 2021 at 02:14
I got caught in a crowd surge in college – ironically it was around the time of the infamous Who concert in Cincinnati. Because of that concert, open seating was banned in most places. In my case, the concert was Boston (with Rick Derringer opening). For some reason there was a delay in opening the inner doors to the venue. We had made it into the lobby with maybe 25% of the crowd. People still outside decided to surge forward and try to get people moving faster. (Probably not realizing that the doors were still locked.) All that crap about making a space so you can keep breathing is completely wrong. For a few seconds, I could not breathe and could not push hard enough to create a space of any kind. Luckily, people near the doors shouted enough to get the crowd to move back, but there were half a dozen surges before they quit. A guy near me was pressed against a glass trophy case on the wall so hard that the glass on the lower half broke. When the surge subsided, the guy pushed his way out of the case just before the heavy piece of glass above him crashed to the bottom and shattered. He missed decapitation by only a second or two.
The Astroworld disaster is an on-going nightmare with daily announcements from the police, city officials, and lawyers – all trying to figure out who they can pin the blame on. Of course, Tony Buzbee, the ambulance chaser who ran for mayor not long ago, was filing court papers before the bodies reached room temperature. He’s also representing all of the “massage parlor women” who are suing Texan QB Deshaun Watson for allegedly asking for “happy endings”. (‘Cause nobody who goes to massage parlors has ever done that before.) City officials are saying that the city had nothing to do with it because the county issued any approvals. I guess we should be happy as usually our officials waste our tax money on coke and whores, but now they are actually having to work to come up with excuses. Earning their pay, but not our respect.
November 11th, 2021 at 05:23
Nobody goes to work for the government with any intention other than getting the maximum pay for the minimum work.