Just viewed it. Bodies everywhere. Terrible.
Where was the police when crowd control is their job? Tell me that could be prevented.
When it broke the Covid vaccine mob were out in force as initial reports were multiple heart attacks, vile feckin humans spreading bile.
It’s worth pointing out that in any crush cardiac arrest will be one of the top causes of death. The stress the unfortunate ones stuck in it are under just proves too much.
Nearly had an anxiety attack just watching them on mute…
That's not helping at all when you know how MAD South Koreans can be as fans of x celebrity. Regardless, my biggest question is about what the heck was the Seoul PD was doing all of this time to allow people to get so tightly packed in those narrow streets.
The screams were terrifying.
Yep and whoever is in charge of public safety has to answer some serious questions. Sounds like there was absolutely no measure in place to ensure proper crowd control.
I'm not sure the first action here should be finger pointing. This can happen in many nightlife districts across the world. A lot of people don't know of the dangers associated with crowds... I probably wouldn't have known of this dangers if not for being a football fan aware of Hillsborough, for example.
150 or so people dead because people wanted a glimpse of a celebrity.
Not the time my friend.
I went to Itaewon earlier this year and I remember it's hilly as hell round there, with the shops in narrow streets.
It has not been confirmed. so please consider it more like a rumor (like the one telling there were some drugs) to blame the victims. So far, it seems 100k people were expected and no measure were taken. During some previous Halloween events with more people (200k). some crowd controls measures were in place. The police was understaffed.
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Yeah we were in downtown Toronto when the Raptors won the championship and it was complete chaos. At one point we literally couldn’t move and a bus with fans sitting on the roof of it was blocking half the street so we all got funnelled into a small area behind it to get through. The only reason we got out of it was because of the sheer force of people pushing behind us. Was a horrible feeling.
Interesting. I have a co-worker (here in the USA) that grew up in Stoke and used to go to football matches and remembers the same thing at matches (being able to lift your feet and not fall because of the crowd being packed in so tight in the terraces). It's amazing more people were not injured at regular matches with the terrace stands.
They were dangerous in the way they were designed. It was OK if everyone stood reasonably still, but when there was a goal everyone would move. My sister was knocked over and trampled on at Maine Road back in the 70s (she was OK, just bruised), but it was so easy to see how a disaster could happen (particularly as many of the people there were drinking).
I've been to Bourbon Street in "off peak" season (July) and it was still busy. There is no way I'd go near it on Mardi Gras.
It's a shame that most countries have to experience tragedies like this to understand the need to implement effective crowd control measures. A lot of people, professionals/authorities included, just don't know the dangers of a tightly packed crowd.
