Štulic

Under 1.4 Million ravers at the open air techno festival in Duisburg, a friend of mine was unlucky enough to be right in the middle of the panic outbreak, but still lucky enough to get airlifted to the hospital with broken bones and fractures and not end up dieing whilst being trampled over by masses of people...

Another friend woke me up at 3am from Germany who was there with him and his heavily pregnant girlfriend, both shocked of course but otherwise OK.

What was meant to be a peaceful celebration of life, love, fun and drugs, ended up in a sad tragedy.

I went myself three times to the Love Parade before in the 90's, when it was held in Berlin every year, good memories of good times...



15 killed amid panic at Germany's 'Love Parade' - CNN.com

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shai_hulud

irony at its finest... sorry about your friends.

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Mafoo

last festival i went to was the electric daisy carnival, there were some stampedes and fence trampling but i dont think anyone died as a result. there are some scary vids up though... here it is

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maszac

wtf causes it?

and lol @ those two cops in the video who keep getting punked out

farmergiles

Oh no.

Bad organization and too many people.

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Mafoo

ya its bad planning. they stopped allowing access to the dancefloor because it was over crowded. so people start pushing and shoving and hopping fences, and then chaos takes over and people get hurt.

i was tripping at edc so i was kinda hanging out around the less densely populated areas. it was still a good festival, just a bunch of kids acting a fool ruining it for alot of people.

they actually just imposed an 18+ age limit at all the insomniac festivals so hopefully the one i go to today will not have any rioting/ trampling

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Mikey

sorry about your friends

thats some messed up shit that happened

and no offense, but i honestly don't think a rave is a good place for a heavily pregnant person to be at

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Štulic

^ I know man, it was the first thing I said too when he rang me... but you know how it is you can always stay away from the biggest crowds since it's open air and shit and they live only 20min drive away from there, so she just didn't wanna miss it I guess.

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when i first read the title of the thread, all i was thinking was, "a rodeo... in GERMANY??"

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Jimmycube

i think that is one of my biggest phobias.....crushed under a stamped of humanity....makes me sick to think about it.

sorry to hear about your friends stulic man...hope everybody is ok

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fenderbender

dude that shit is scary...


ive been in to some over-booked as hell shows and gotten stuck in the crowds.

Specially when its hott out or in an indoor place, and drugs are involved, it gets fucking dangerous.

being overheated and feeling like ur gonna pass out getting pushed around by hundreds or thousands of people....NOT FUN.

tis why i avoid indoor rave/club scenes.

outside not in the middle of the crowd ftw

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Mikey

yeah but even in open air can't it be like way too loud

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Štulic

I'm pretty sure her baby's already got used to loud and repetitive beats

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Mikey

haha the baby will come out with head already bobbing

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m0rb1d

man what the hell is wrong with people?
imagine how fucked up a situation has to be for you to be stomping someones face in and not care or perhaps even know.

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Štulic

The organizers fucked it up first by not expecting 1.4 million people but "only" half a million, then there was only one official entrance through the tunnel that became a death trap.
While thousands tried to leave the main area through the same tunnel thousands piled up trying to get in...
Imagine getting trapped in the middle of the crowd, not only there's no way to move anywhere but you feel you're slowly getting squashed to death... once the panic breaks out there's no stopping anymore... it's just a normal human reaction in that situation.

Pretty bad fuckup one wouldn't expect from German organizers but someone's gonna spend a very long time behind bars for that...

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TomaToe Farmer

It is quite sad to hear that happened to your friends stulic... I have personally been in an indoor rave where i began to feel overheated and exhausted and when i went to take a seat on the stairs directly across from the paramedics I was harassed for "selling drugs"
I actually was not doing it at the time and when I approached the bouncer to ask for a place to get fresh air he turned to smack me, quite scary being a little guy and all but ya paramedics finally saw what was up and offered me a quick exit to through the back security doors where i was allowed to have a smoke and breathe cool air.

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stonerkid

lol i was at EDC to that shit was ridiculous all them stupid ravers in one place is bad bad bad
it took away from the fun having to deal with such crowds, makes me appreciate the small scale raves back home MUCH more. fuck big venues there expensive and a hassle, from now on im stickin to raves in puna where i know everyone and everyone knows me. Thats REAL plur. and darn i shoulda checked here first to see if any yahookans where going! im bummed i missed ya mafoo!

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JcP

its actually not your choice. if you're in a mass of people unable to move freely, if that mass pushes left, you either go left with it, or fall beneath it.

Trampling and stuff like that is almost never about someone not caring about someone else they're stepping on. It has to do with physics and being unable to do anything else.

which. along with my claustrophobia, is why I would rather chew glass than be in a crowd dense enough for this scenario to happen.

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