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2022-10-31 China-Japan-Koreas

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'

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#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|| 2022-10-31 01:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-31 02:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Somewhere, Satan is merrily pissing over a hundred and fifty plus souls.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-10-31 05:21|| 2022-10-31 05:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Who concert, Cincinnati, 1979

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-10-31 05:58|| 2022-10-31 05:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-31 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 It would have been worse without the vax.

Snark O'The Day

Posted by Lowspark 2022-10-31 07:57|| 2022-10-31 07:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Hillsborough Disaster, Sheffield, South Yorkshire 1989

Posted by Black Charlie Jineque5437 2022-10-31 08:17|| 2022-10-31 08:17|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 - early subtle SOTD entry

Posted by Frank G 2022-10-31 08:40|| 2022-10-31 08:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Did I miss this year's Hajj stampede?

Posted by Regular joe 2022-10-31 11:29|| 2022-10-31 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 re: #8 regarding #6

I second the motion!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-10-31 14:21|| 2022-10-31 14:21|| Front Page Top

#11 143 Sheep Die Trying to Escape Two Wolves in Idaho

Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-31 15:26|| 2022-10-31 15:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-31 20:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-10-31 20:54|| Front Page Top

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