1live4downvotes t1_iuj93da wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:14 PM

Reply to comment by Talentless-Horton-T in South Korea mourns and probes deadly Halloween crowd crush by lustfulcuties

this one still has me baffled. Not to downplay death, but I could understand a large rowdy crowd getting out of hand and a few people being trampled or something... but over 100?

xakeri t1_iujc6lp wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:35 PM

It isn't a trampling. They squeeze in so tightly people are unable to inhale.

The energy moves through the crowd like it is a fluid. So the people that aren't super densely packed (usually in the back and far enough away from the danger that they don't know it is happening) are trying to push forward. That energy flows through the crowd, and if there are any choke points, like a narrowing of a corridor or a door or even a bend in the corridor, people will get stuck on it and then people get stuck on those people, and on and on. All the while, the stuck people are dying.

1live4downvotes t1_iujdphl wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:45 PM

I understand that, but it is still baffling how this happened just out and about and not at a concert or something. I heard the crowd somehow moved into a alley with a dead end and then things went bad. But it's still baffling how that could have happened.

reaverdude t1_iujenmq wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:51 PM

The alley is relatively narrow and slopes downward. People at the end of the slope were the most impacted. In videos you can see that they fell and were unable to get back up so they became the bottleneck for the crowd.

Not that baffling if you take those details into consideration.

Talentless-Horton-T t1_iuje8i1 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:49 PM

the videos are crazy, they're floating around reddit. i think when you see it, it's understandable. the alleyways are as wide as one line here in the US