Crowd in the moments before the Mt Meron tragedy, April 30, 2021 (Screen grab)
Posted on 04/30/2021 10:04:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
At least 45 people were crushed to death and more than 150 people hurt, including many in critical condition, in a stampede after midnight Thursday at a mass gathering to celebrate the Lag B’Omer holiday at Mount Meron, medics said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident “a terrible disaster,” promised a thorough investigation, and said that Sunday would be declared a day of national mourning.
Army Radio reported that children were among the dead and injured.
The event is believed to be the worst peacetime tragedy in modern Israeli history, with a death toll higher than the 44 who lost their lives in the 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire.
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Trying to keep up with the muzzies and the Haj stampedes in Mecca?
Wow. Shome’a tefilla שומע תפליה
It’s a crowded, narrow, place. I don’t care to go there at low times.
Recently been made worse bc of security fencing and separation efforts from COVID.
No clue what happened to trigger the stampede, although I wouldn’t be surprised if it was something like fireworks.
I was in a crowd like that once, at the Altamont Rock Festival near the stage. (Obviously much younger and immortal at the time). You have absolutely no control over your body and if you should fall you’d have no way to get back up. Don’t recommend it.
I had heard that some people slipped down stairs, and the crowd thought that the stands were collapsing causing a stampede. Can’t rely on that though, 3rd hand information.
But that general idea is why I try to avoid crowds. A person can be reasoned with. Mobs of people can quickly become irrational. Prayers for those killed and injured.
Summer of 1975 I got caught up in a stampede to see the movie Jaws. Imagine that? A stupid movie about a shark caused a stampede.
I was 12 years old that summer and I begged my father to take me to see it. I believe you had to be 13 to get in on your own. Anyway, it's a hot summer night and we are all in line to see it. Only so many people could get in for a showing. So we just missed getting in for the showing we came for and so had to wait over two hours for the next showing. There were only about 15 people in front of us so we knew we'd get in next time if we just stayed patient.
Then some genius decided to move the line for the next showing to a side door of the theater so that people leaving the current showing would be able to use the front doors to come out. Well bedlam ensued as everybody waiting patiently in the front of the line realized they would be in the back of the new line if they didn't move quickly.
I was literally picked up off the ground by a crush of bodies and carried away. Remember I'm only 12 years old and about 97 pounds at the time. My father had to literally shove people out of the way to catch up to me and keep me from getting trampled under foot.
Then my next "stampede" moment was at a Van Halen show in LA back in the early 1980s. That was a crazy scene too as half the people were stoned to the gills.
I could see that, although I don’t know what stairs that would be. Everything is rock.
There are been warnings about a problem here going on a decade, but the area so dense and filled with historical and religious sites it’s not like you can knock down a building and out in a nice wide street.
There’s also basically zero way to keep people out, as you can get in from about 20 directions.
My only surprise here is this didn’t happen sooner.
Sounds like the Who concert in Cincinnati back in the late 70s.
Yes, I was at an outdoor (football stadium) concert once in NC, ZZ TOp, Lynyrd Skynyrd et al, and the Hells Angels showed up en masse to help a member who had gotten into a fight with someone and teh crowd parted like the Red Sea, I had to jump up on the Control Board stand to keep from getting trampled!................
Unbelievable. Not an ounce of common sense between them all. What rational person crowds a narrow corridor? And what was the big hurry?
I was at the same concert for their Memphis Liberty Bowl date.
Biggest uproar we had was some people carried out on stretchers and PA announcements not to drink the brown tea in the milk jugs.
Mushroom tea?..................
Yep but they would not call it that on the PA. LOL I guess there would be one or two that figured a little taste can’t hurt.
One of the least admirable qualities of people is their love of crowding. I prefer at least thirty miles between neighbors.
Reminds me of Hillsborough 1989, when 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death.
People literally dying in the stands while the match was going on.
We were in Jerusalem for this holiday in 2000, and I was SHOCKED that teenage boys start HUGE BONFIRES!!! Took us forever to get to our hotel because of the HOUSES that caught on fire!!!
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