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Old 07-25-2010, 06:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Officials explain little on German festival stampede

this absolutely crazy....how the hell could the promoters of this actually within sane mind make it to where they planed on packing over one million people into a small space with only one exit/entrance...and thats an access tunnel
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Old 07-26-2010, 07:09 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Love Parade is the name of the festival. I saw a video where they were helping people up and saw them carrying the dead and trying to resuscitate some of the people who were still alive. Such a horrible accident

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Old 07-26-2010, 07:11 PM   #3 (permalink)
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What were they stampeding for?
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I still haven't been able to find out.

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It remains unclear what triggered the panic, but it appears that people trying to escape the surging crowd climbed up a metal stairway in front of the tunnel and then fell and were trampled or crushed.
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Old 07-26-2010, 07:44 PM   #5 (permalink)
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19 people climbed up a stairway and they all couldn't navigate it? This is getting weirder.

I can understand surging, crazy Germans, as they really like their techno and I've personally seen how packed and crazy it gets at their raves. (Timewarp 2005, Mannheim Germany)
But what the hell?
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19 people.. in a crowd over a million all climbing up a narrow stairway. It's hard to think that only 19 people died

EDIT: It's up to 20 with 511 injured
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19 people.. in a crowd over a million all climbing up a narrow stairway. It's hard to think that only 19 people died
Did the stairway collapse or something?
Seems even easier not to fall if you've got over a million people in a narrow stairway...
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Did the stairway collapse or something?
Seems even easier not to fall if you've got over a million people in a narrow stairway...
No they fell from it. I haven't seen what the staircase looks like so I'm not exactly sure how they fell or if the injuries were sustained from perhaps getting crushed by people after they fell. I know 2 deaths happened in the entrance/exit tunnel as they were crushed against the wall.
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That's really fucked up.
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That's really fucked up.
You're telling me. Maybe they didn't translate it correctly?
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