I was in a crowd like this. Scary. Once it gets moving, you are powerless. It is impossible to do anything but keep your feet moving and try not to fall. You can't move your arms. They are pinned to your sides. If someone falls, you can't even bend down to help them. Even if you could, you would be knocked over and become another fatality. Advice? Don't get in a crowd like this.
Me, too!
In a crowd at an outdoor concert years ago—for Air Supply no less!!
It was terrifying to feel so powerless...I swear there were moments when my feet were not on the ground!
Prayers for that employee’s family—I worked at ToysRUs a few years ago during Black Friday and while the crowd didn’t get that crazy, there were a few crazed customers who literally scared me when I told them they could only get the limit of whatever toys they wanted...one woman literally swept her arm across several shelves of Bratz dolls and put a boatload in her cart, when there were signs EVERYWHERE that said LIMIT 2 ONLY!!! When I pointed that out to her, I think if she’d had a gun I wouldn’t be here today (over DOLLS)—she smart-alecky told me, “I’m getting two for me, two for my sister, two for my kid, two for my other kid...” and basically dared me to stop her-I wound up calling one of the area managers over to deal with it because I felt like she could actually get violent. Over Bratz dolls! *shakes head dazedly at such behavior*