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1 posted on 07/24/2010 9:32:21 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Damn. Prayers for the victim and their families


2 posted on 07/24/2010 9:33:31 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 546 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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The Love Parade is one of Europe's largest electronic music events...

I'm not feelin' the love.

I have a general rule to avoid the type of people who would just as soon crush me as wait their turn in line.

I've been to some VERY crowded Christian events (concerts, Promise Keepers, Stand in the Gap (Washington DC)). I never once feared that the people would kill me to get where they wanted to go.

No one snowflake ever felt responsible for an avalanche.

3 posted on 07/24/2010 9:39:28 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.)
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loveparade
4 posted on 07/24/2010 9:41:15 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (posted a total of 1,459 threads and 8,556 replies.)
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Never find yourself between two tuba players.
7 posted on 07/24/2010 9:57:37 AM PDT by JPG (Sarah Spitz? No, she swallowed the Obama agenda.)
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“Love Parade” is not a family friendly event. It use to be held in Berlin, but got moved out of that city. I've seen some video tape. A good amount of public sex, and public urination and deification in front of cheering crowds. I think there is also a minimum of three nose rings and two lip rings required per participant.
16 posted on 07/24/2010 10:39:15 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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There’s a clear lesson to be learned here: Nothing good can ever come of playing techno music.


20 posted on 07/24/2010 11:11:45 AM PDT by Gurn (Remember Mountain Meadows.)
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Images from the BBC
21 posted on 07/24/2010 11:14:38 AM PDT by csvset
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Loveparade 2010 Tunnel Duisburg [YouTube]
23 posted on 07/24/2010 12:01:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (posted a total of 1,459 threads and 8,556 replies.)
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Panik am Eingang – Raver zu Tode gequetscht [covered bodies]
25 posted on 07/24/2010 12:30:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (posted a total of 1,459 threads and 8,556 replies.)
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Awful. I avoid crowds ever since a bad experience at Mardi Gras. The crowd was so close I was lifted right off my feet and moved. Fortunately, no one was injured.


33 posted on 07/24/2010 2:23:48 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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BRING IN THE SCOOPS!
35 posted on 07/24/2010 2:43:20 PM PDT by Musketeer
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Some years ago a couple of friends and I were at the (carnival) dance of the Marktfrauen at the Viktualienmarkt in Munich, and all of a sudden the crowd around me got *very dense*... only a few yards to the edge of things but damn, that was not comfortable! Took a few minutes to get out of there, and that was a fairly open space. Don't even want to imagine what it was like in that tunnel in Duisburg today. Heard people were stuck in there for hours. *shudder*
38 posted on 07/24/2010 4:03:30 PM PDT by Moltke (panem et circenses)
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This reminds me of the time I almost got crushed to death at a Neil Diamond concert. I didn't even want to go to the Neil Diamond concert but my wife is a big fan so I sucked it up and went. As we were walking through the concession areas on our way to our seats, the PA system started playing "Longfellow Serenade."

Panicked fans, thinking they were missing the start of the concert (it was actually still almost an hour away) started screaming and hollering and rushing for the entrances to the arena. My wife and I were literally lifted off our feet for a brief moment as we squeezed into one of the entrances. Once the hysterical maniacs got into the arena and saw that the concert hadn't actually begun, things calmed down pretty quickly, but was that one scary moment!

40 posted on 07/24/2010 4:51:01 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 29 days away from outliving Francis Gary Powers)
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Any idea if alcohol was involved?


41 posted on 07/24/2010 5:17:08 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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RIP.


43 posted on 07/24/2010 7:03:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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Very sad. Horrible feeling to be stuck and pressed in a crowd. The deaths are meaningless.


47 posted on 07/24/2010 10:28:12 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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Which is another reason why I prefer Iron Maiden crowds. Generally older, nicer people.


48 posted on 07/25/2010 12:28:16 AM PDT by wastedyears (The Founders revolted for less.)
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They have a strange interpretation of “love” in Germany, if that’s the result.


50 posted on 07/25/2010 3:52:19 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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Too many people on E and acid...


51 posted on 07/25/2010 4:43:12 AM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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Not to trivialize the event (and I enjoyed Berlin when I was there last summer) but didn’t like over 60 people die in a train crash in West Bengal? It barely made the news. I guess 16 Germans > 60 Indians?


52 posted on 07/25/2010 5:48:33 AM PDT by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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