Death by Human Stampede

[resolvent]

I guess the sports nuts can take solace that they are not responsible for the majority of human stampede deaths. Nevertheless, related to my other post in the Football Sucks! section, whether sports or other form of mass human celebration, which results in people dying, sports nuts thinking is the same: they never think - hey, maybe I shouldn't go to this event because it will be TOO CROWDED! They are incapable of thinking: perhaps the value of barely getting a glimpse of the attraction I came to see is insignificant compared to the risks and the trouble of squeezing into a crowd.

I hate crowds. I avoid them. I never go to fairs or pop-singer concerts. Never have.
I don't even eat in crowded restaurants.

For some reason, however, I make an exception for Halloween and maybe New Years.
Well, for Halloween, it's because I am not me. I play a different character. I get to hide
behind a mask.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stampede

10 October 1872: 19 women and children were killed in a stampede and resulting stairs collapse in a synagogue in Ostrów Wielkopolski during the fast of Yom Kippur. Failure of gas lighting engulfed a synagogue balcony (apparently, the women's gallery) in darkness, causing panic among the women.

December 5, 1876: Crushes on gallery and balcony staircases during the Brooklyn Theater Fire delayed the evacuation of the building, a contributing factor in the deaths of at least 278 individuals.

May 30, 1883: 12 people were killed and dozens injured after a woman tripped on the stairway at the Brooklyn Bridge, which had been open for eight days at the time. The crush was exacerbated by fears the bridge was about to collapse.

June 16, 1883: Over 180 out of 1,100 children died in the Victoria Hall disaster in Sunderland, England when they stampeded down the stairs to collect gifts from the entertainers after the end of a variety show.

May 18, 1896: 1,389 people were killed and 1,300 injured in the Khodynka Tragedy, a crush of those desiring to get presents during the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

January 11, 1908: 16 children were killed in the Barnsley Public Hall Disaster in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, when someone in the hall shouted 'Fire!'

December 24, 1913: 73 people were crushed to death in the Italian Hall Disaster in Calumet, Michigan. This event is considered the legal source for the often-cited First Amendment limitation of "shouting fire in a crowded theater."

March 3, 1943: Bethnal Green 173 people were killed as people tried to get into an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green underground station, east London. Anti-aircraft fire reportedly frightened the crowd, causing them to run for the shelter. When a woman carrying a baby tripped on the stairs, others fell over her, triggering the crush.

January 1, 1956: 124 people were killed during the New Year panic and stampede at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan.

January 2, 1971: 66 people were killed in the Second Ibrox Disaster, when the collapse of stairway barriers led to a crush as fans were leaving the stadium.

December 3, 1979: 11 people were killed during a crush at a The Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati. The incident led to a reduced use of festival seating at US venues. The event was later referenced on an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.

October 20, 1982: at least 66 people were killed in the Luzhniki disaster

May 29, 1985: 39 people were killed in the Heysel Stadium disaster

April 15, 1989: 96 people were killed in the Hillsborough Disaster at a football stadium in Sheffield, England.

January 13, 1991: At least 40 people were killed at a football match in Orkney, South Africa.

January 1, 1993: 21 people were killed and 48 injured as a huge crowd celebrated the New Year's Day at Lan Kwai Fong of Hong Kong.

October 30, 1993: 73 student fans injured, six critically, by a crowd crush shortly after a football game at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Camp Randall Stadium.

May 1994: 270 people were killed at Jamarat Bridge in Mecca during the stoning of the Devil.

October 16, 1996: 82 killed, 147 injured on a steep stadium stairway prior to a World Cup qualifying match between Guatemala and Costa Rica in the Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.

March, 1998: 70 people were killed when fans at Nepal's national football stadium stampede for the exits during a hailstorm.

April 1998: 119 people were killed at the Hajj in Mecca.

May 30, 1999: Niamiha disaster: 53 people died in a stampede at the Nemiga metro station in Minsk, Belarus.

April 11, 2001: 43 people were crushed in the Ellis Park Stadium disaster.

May 2001: 126 killed at a football match in Accra, Ghana after police fire tear gas at rioters.

December 21, 2001: 7 children, 10 to 14 years of age, were crushed to death due to a stampede on the stairway, leading to the entrance of a nightclub in Sofia, Bulgaria.

February 17, 2003: 21 people were killed in the stairway exit to E2, a nightclub in Chicago, after a pepper spray use on an upper-story dance floor.

February 20, 2003: 100 killed in The Station nightclub fire, many of them trampled.

February 2004: 251 people were killed at Jamarat Bridge in Mecca during the stoning of the devil.

September 1, 2004: Three die in Saudi shop stampede.

January 2005: 265 people were killed as Hindu pilgrims stampede near a remote temple in Maharashtra, India.

August 31, 2005: 1000 people were killed in a Baghdad bridge stampede

December 2005: 42 people were killed as flood relief supplies were handed out to homeless refugees in southern India.

January 12, 2006: 345 killed at Jamarat Bridge in Mecca during the stoning of the devil.

February 4, 2006: 74 people were killed in the PhilSports Arena stampede in the Philippines. The place was the location of the first year anniversary of ABS-CBN's Wowowee.

September 12, 2006: Fifty-one killed and more than 200 injured at a stampede in Ibb Governorate, Yemen.

June 2, 2007: 12 people were killed during a stampede at the end of a football game between Zambia and Republic of Congo in Chililabombwe, Zambia.

October 3, 2007: At least 14 women were crushed to death at a train station in northern India.

November 11, 2007: 3 people were killed and more than 30 injured at the Supermarket Carrefour in Chongqing, China when the shop was offering 20% discounts on cooking oil
March 27, 2008: 8 people were killed and 10 injured at an Indian temple crush during a pilgrimage.

June 20, 2008: At least 12 people were killed and 13 injured at a Mexico City nightclub stampede during a police raid.

July 13, 2008: 23 people died in the al-Mureikh stadium stampede disaster, during a graduation ceremony at Omdurman, Sudan.

August 3, 2008: At least 162 people were killed and 47 injured in a stampede at the Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh in mountainous northern India after a rain shelter collapsed, which worshipers mistakenly took to be a landslide.

September 14, 2008: At least 11 people were killed when a riot was dispersed by tear gas during a football match in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

September 30, 2008: 147 people were killed during the Chamunda Devi stampede at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, India. The tragedy may have been triggered by a rumor that a bomb was planted in the temple complex. Local authorities, however, blamed steep, slippery slopes leading to the temple.

October 2, 2008: About 20 children died in a stampede in an overcrowded childrens dance hall in Tanzania.

November 28, 2008: Jdimypai Damour died and at least four were injured when a stampede of shoppers broke down the door of a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, New York, just before the store opened for its Black Friday sales.

March 29, 2009: The Houphouët-Boigny Arena stampede. 19 people killed and 130 injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Ivory Coast.

[greencom]

I hate crowds too. The biggest reason beside there being a lot of jerks out there is that crowds are a great way to spread disease. Several times I would go to a gun show and come down with a cold or a flu plus not finding a gun to buy.
Greencom

[Ray]

Speaking of gun shows.. I went to a gun show a couple of months ago and it was so crowded I started to get claustrophobic. There was barely room to move. If there had been a fire, there might have been trouble.

[greencom]

Speaking of gun shows.. I went to a gun show a couple of months ago and it was so crowded I started to get claustrophobic. There was barely room to move. If there had been a fire, there might have been trouble.

Wow, a fire at a gunshow, think of the fireworks display from the ammo tables!
Greencom

[Ray]

he he he --can you imagine? I didn't think of that! That would be something to see --MILLIONS of bullets going in all directions!