I said it before The coli clearly needs to open registration we have enough 70s and 80s babies who are very out of touch. Travis Scott has been one of the biggest rappers in the world since 2015 and yet y’all don’t know who he is
This website is dying anyway, they don’t give a fukk about getting new blood in here.
As someone who has been in a stampede this description is fairly accurate. It was easily one of the most terrifying experiences I have ever had in life and you dont realize how close to death you are until it's too late.
Folks don't realize you literally you have no time prepare. It happens quickly. Something causes the crowd to panic and within a second the pressure of 1000's of people pushing in multiple directions squeezes you and you cannot move or breathe. Whatever position you were in your are now stuck in. I'm a big guy and got carried about 10 feet in the squeeze before I could get my footing again. And your choice soon becomes give into the pressure and die as someone under the pile or fight and try to get the higher ground which means you are now standing on top of other people and pushing back causing more squeezing. You start looking at the people around you thinking its either gonna be you or me.. and the weak get crushed.
I still feel bad about that day cause I was really close to making a decision to step on this chicks head so I could escape. I wasn't about to die at a concert. Luckily one of the metal barrier gates broke under pressure so people started spilling out under the stage to escape. I pretty much never stand in the middle of large crowds anymore though.
I attended a one day festival a few years ago and while it thankfully never got out of control like your story or Astrofest, I can sympathize with a crowd going out of control. It was thought that at the show I was at, somebody started shooting, so people started taking off in every direction. I had no idea what was going on until I saw waves of people running from the stage like an ocean, so I hauled ass over to a food cart and hid behind it for what felt like 10 seconds until I felt a pair of hands touch me. Immediately my first thought was fukk this, I’m not getting trampled. Without another thought I took off again, awkwardly jumped over a guardrail, busting my ass in the process, and limped out of the venue. I later found out either falling staging or crushed water bottles spooked people into thinking a mass shooting was jumping off and that’s why the crowd dispersed. The show eventually continued and I managed to get back in to see the rest but I never forgot the fight or flight feeling that it gave me. And that was without anyone getting seriously injured, maimed, or worse, so I can’t even imagine being in a crowd where death was a legitimate possibility.
Fair enough
of it all breh.
straight stomped out
