Cambodian Stampede

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Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 22, 2010 - 07:54pm PT
What the heck is wrong with people? What started this?
Get a grip!

(you'd think the Who was opening for the Pope)

Sheeple is right!
Gene

Social climber
Nov 22, 2010 - 07:58pm PT
Think avalanche.
Peter Haan

Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
Nov 22, 2010 - 08:40pm PT
And to think they were celebrating.

345 dead, 320 injured in a stampede during a water festival in Phnom Penh

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/22/international/i090736S94.DTL
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2010 - 09:05pm PT
Must be a Cambodian thing Peter.

When they get pissed off they kill millions of their own.



Yet it is the home of ancient civilizations. Go figure.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Nov 22, 2010 - 09:10pm PT
At least they died doing what they loved..
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2010 - 09:38pm PT
What? Its a water festival.
What were they doing? Making water?
Peter Haan

Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
Nov 22, 2010 - 09:45pm PT
Apparently quite a few of the dead were women.

This is being billed as the worst disaster to hit Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot of the seventies. That is saying a lot. And this new event was an effing festival.
John Moosie

climber
Beautiful California
Nov 22, 2010 - 09:51pm PT
People complain about all the rules in the US, but these are the kinds of things that happen without crowd control. Once a crowd panics, if there aren't lots of exits, then it can get bad quickly.
MisterE

Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
Nov 23, 2010 - 01:25am PT
Lots of people, narrow exit points.

Jeez, Ron - have a little sympathy would ya?

"Stampede", "sheeple"?

This was not an animal event.
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