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At least 19 foreigners are among more than 150 dead in Seoul Halloween party stampede: Sickening footage shows helpless youngsters suffocating trapped against walls and barriers in crush caused when thousands tried to get to bar 'to see local celebrity'
2022-10-31
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Why I don’t like crowds.
  • At least 151 have died on a Seoul Street amid Halloween celebrations

  • Tens of thousands of revelers packed into a narrow alleyway in the South Korean capital before the stampede

  • They became trapped and were crushed, with dozens suffering cardiac arrest, but no figure has been given

  • Videos from the scene show people desperately trying to flee the suffocating mass and unable to stay upright

  • One witness described the scenes at the height of the crush: 'People were layered on top of others like a tomb'
Posted by:Skidmark

#13  The crowd at the TSA checkpoints would have been just as spectacular for a terrorist as any plane.

You aren’t the only one to have thought of that, Prokopius2k:

2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting — El Al ticket counter

Millennium Bomber — caught on his way to bomb the LA airport in 1999 for Al Qaeda
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-10-31 20:54  

#12  Actual story excerpt: "Officials added it was believed that people were crushed to death after a large crowd began pushing forward in a narrow alley near Hamilton Hotel, a major party spot in Seoul, upon hearing rumours [Emphasis added.]a celebrity was nearby."

The madness of crowds.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2022-10-31 20:29  

#11  143 Sheep Die Trying to Escape Two Wolves in Idaho
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-10-31 15:26  

#10  re: #8 regarding #6

I second the motion!

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2022-10-31 14:21  

#9  Did I miss this year's Hajj stampede?
Posted by: Regular joe   2022-10-31 11:29  

#8  #6 - early subtle SOTD entry
Posted by: Frank G   2022-10-31 08:40  

#7  Hillsborough Disaster, Sheffield, South Yorkshire 1989
Posted by: Black Charlie Jineque5437   2022-10-31 08:17  

#6  It would have been worse without the vax.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Lowspark   2022-10-31 07:57  

#5  Why I don’t like crowds.

Ditto.
One of the reasons I was happy giving up flying. The crowd at the TSA checkpoints would have been just as spectacular for a terrorist as any plane.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-10-31 07:50  

#4  Who concert, Cincinnati, 1979
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-10-31 05:58  

#3  Somewhere, Satan is merrily pissing over a hundred and fifty plus souls.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-31 05:21  

#2  Crowd crush? My new vocabulary for the day, and I haven’t even gone to bed yet to finish yeaterday. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-10-31 02:19  

#1  I hate when the media calls this a "stampede". It's not. That makes it sound like it's the people's fault. It's not. It's called a crowd crush and it happens whenever too many people get into too small a place.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811   2022-10-31 01:12  

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