it is terrible. 15 people were killed and they play
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Loveparade Today In Duisburg 15 People Killed
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Posted 24 July 2010 - 11:30 PM
This is one of the fears you have when you put on an event of this scale. I have put on events that have a few thousand (not millions) people show up and it is a scary thing to think what can go wrong. I was working an outdoor event last september when I thunderstorm blew out of no where. It caused damage to the stage and I cut my hand open on metal wire trying to hold down one of the wind screens as we put it into place. The musicans were in danger at one point along with some of the audience.
Now stampedes are a weird occurance. Sometimes caused by stupidity, sometimes just freak as you have too many people. One of the best pieces of advice I got from a instructor on event management. "When you enter a room, know where your exits are. Because if something goes wrong you you need people out fast and one door is not going to cut it"
If anyone wants a semi-interesting read go check out Chuck Klostermans "Killing yourself to live". He brings up the great white incident in Rhode Island in 2003.
Now stampedes are a weird occurance. Sometimes caused by stupidity, sometimes just freak as you have too many people. One of the best pieces of advice I got from a instructor on event management. "When you enter a room, know where your exits are. Because if something goes wrong you you need people out fast and one door is not going to cut it"
If anyone wants a semi-interesting read go check out Chuck Klostermans "Killing yourself to live". He brings up the great white incident in Rhode Island in 2003.
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Posted 25 July 2010 - 3:04 PM
My condolences.
But it was an obvious mousetrap. Thousands of people into sort of a tunnel...the weird (and good) thing is that only few people has died. The tragedy has been relatively small regarding to the massive scale of the event.
But it was an obvious mousetrap. Thousands of people into sort of a tunnel...the weird (and good) thing is that only few people has died. The tragedy has been relatively small regarding to the massive scale of the event.
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Posted 26 July 2010 - 1:59 PM
Damn, my wish to visit the Love Parade at least once will never come true. 
How the fuck did the organisers book a place for the festival which could sustain hardly 500.000 people and let 1.5 million people in!?
How the fuck did the organisers book a place for the festival which could sustain hardly 500.000 people and let 1.5 million people in!?
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Posted 27 July 2010 - 3:48 AM
reminds me to Big Beach Boutique back in 2002 at Brighton Beach, expect 50,000 or so....end with close to a million..... (a little exagerated)
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Posted 27 July 2010 - 10:19 AM
Actually the number of dead people is 20, 500 are still injured.
How can you be so stupid to let 1,5 million people into a place that only has space for 500.000 ?
How can you be so stupid to let 1,5 million people into a place that only has space for 500.000 ?
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Has there been any word from the promoters of this event?
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 10:23 PM
whirlygirl, on 29 July 2010 - 12:09 AM, said:
Has there been any word from the promoters of this event?
organizers, administrations, politics and police are shifting the blame on each other.
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Posted 28 July 2010 - 10:52 PM
I just now saw that BBC clip stardoktor posted. You can sort of get a sense of scale from the areal view but the eye-view footage in the clip gives you a much more chilling perspective of just how large this event is.
Amen. This is Lovefest. Previous years according to the DJ in the BBC clip have said this was an easy going festival... Nobody wanted this to happen but the blame has to be shouldered somewhere. It's irresponsible to hold an event that size in an area that small. Stampedes and mobs are terrifying, primal fight-or-flight type scenarios. God I can't imagine what it must've been like.
iguanapunk, on 26 July 2010 - 04:46 AM, said:
Fuck! This is awful. This is not what festivals are about 
Amen. This is Lovefest. Previous years according to the DJ in the BBC clip have said this was an easy going festival... Nobody wanted this to happen but the blame has to be shouldered somewhere. It's irresponsible to hold an event that size in an area that small. Stampedes and mobs are terrifying, primal fight-or-flight type scenarios. God I can't imagine what it must've been like.
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Posted 16 August 2010 - 1:05 PM
Apparently, some people died before the stampede...and that's what triggerred the stampede.
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Posted 30 August 2010 - 5:11 PM
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At the 2010 Loveparade in Duisburg, 21 people died, many more were injured.
Over the last few weeks, there has been much speculation about the events of that day.
This film shows what happened on 24 July 2010.
It is based on CCTV recordings, explanatory animations, documents, press reports and eyewitness accounts.
At the 2010 Loveparade in Duisburg, 21 people died, many more were injured.
Over the last few weeks, there has been much speculation about the events of that day.
This film shows what happened on 24 July 2010.
It is based on CCTV recordings, explanatory animations, documents, press reports and eyewitness accounts.
http://www.dokumenta...nglish/?lang=en