South Korea Halloween tragedy

[old goat]

I really dislike tight crowds. After reading this I dislike them a whole lot more. My pulse and blood pressure go up just reading it. I've been in that situation once, in a very very minor way and came close to getting shoved onto the Funitel tracks in front of a moving cabin at Olympic Valley. That was unpleasant enough. No one person shoved me--the crowd just surged forward a little as the next cabin arrived.
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[seano732]

Yep, awful…..The older I get, the more I hate being in large crowds… Can’t even imagine. Vibes to the victims.

[SumJongGuy]

+1 to avoiding potential chaos these days. The adrenaline of mosh pits has waned.. same with fighting crowds to ski powder or pretty much anything. If I know it's going to be crowded, I'm out... I'll still do a sold out sports venue but they tend to manage the crowds better. People tend to stay near their assigned seats..

[JimmyCarter]

Buried alive in a sea of people. Fucking nightmare fuel

[schindlerpiste]

Things that I have given up because of crowding:
Sports/Concerts in venues holding more than 1000 people
Avoiding public transportation (planes, trains, buses, proposed LCC gondola)
Parades

Things that I still tolerate:
Trams (Snowbird, Jackson, Valluga, Klein Matterhorn, etc.), but begrudgingly

[Cisco Kid]

Man, I saw the craziness of panicked crowd behavior. 20 guests were sitting around the campfire at a small resort we rented a cabin at when the camp host lady ran from the main house in a panic yelling to run to the house as a tornado was spotted nearby. Everyone got up and ran. Little girl in front of me tripped and when I stopped to help her up I got pushed from behind. Can imaging the force if the group had been 100. I'd have died in the pileup.

[XXX-er]

we stayed on that street in Seoul on a stop-over from Bali, i counted 50 vendor carts and the noise went most of the night

[Spark]

Devastating. At least 150 people dead. I can't stand big crowds but this will make me even more aware of my surroundings.

[old goat]

One of the big reasons we gave up going to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass was the crowds, although since most people were sitting down it was annoying, not scary. And you could escape to the lesser stages if you didn't mind missing the headliners.