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this isn’t the usual thing I’d share on my stupid nerd blog, but this is SO important. I was nearly crushed in a crowd like this once. It was terrifying because you have NO control over the panicking mass of humans around you. you are just at the mercy of all this chaotic force. this is a real thing that can happen very suddenly! it did happen in the news recently! My situation was, the olympics was happening in my city, I was on my way home from school, and a crowd of people suddenly flooded into the street around me. in seconds it went from, busy-city-street-crowded, to, wtf I can’t even move crowded. I was so pressed against the backpack of the man in front of me, my feet lifted off the ground a moment. People were climbing lamp posts, signs, bus shelters, trees, everything to get up out of it. it was like the street became an ocean of people, and all the people’s survival instincts were making them dumber. everyone was yelling. no one knew how to solve it. police, fire fighters and medics saved us by breaking the locks on the inside of the mall we were trapped next to. a huge group flooded into the building, releasing a bit of the pressure on the people outside. I was in that group that got in.

Sharing to my own stupid nerd blog for the same reason, this is SO IMPORTANT. Human crushes are one of the most unexpected ways to die. People go out to a show or a sports game, and make it there, but they never come back. Other strategies include staying away from large obstacles (like fences) that you could get crushed against, and doing your best to stay above the crowd. Try to climb onto something if you can.

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That second point is absolutely correct for the record, and… unfortunately has been proven to be effective before. Most notable case I can think of was the Station Nightclub Fire, where a fire in a crowded club spread EXTREMELY fast, and a crush formed at the main doors. There’s footage of it online, given that a news reporter was in the club to do a story that night, got out as soon as the fire started, then turned back with his camera still rolling when he heard the screaming start behind him. People were stacked in that doorway up to the roof, packed too tightly for more than a few people to be pulled free, and with extremely toxic smoke steadily killing everyone behind them that wasn’t close enough to the door for the fresh air. The ones who were in the doorway lived long enough for the fire to reach them.

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as a knitter, you start to notice how rare it is for characters in tv shows and movies to knit correctly. from worst to best, it ranges from: