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July 26, 2010
19 Killed at Love Parade
Posted by Dave Blount at July 26, 2010 2:04 PM
A Summer of Love is underway in Germany:
German media reported that as many as 1.4 million people showed up to the Love Parade, where a mass panic Saturday left 19 people crushed to death and 342 injured.
The event was held in Duisburg, having been moved from Berlin due to noise and overcrowding. Attendees entered the festival through a tunnel that was closed off when the venue became full, setting off a panic.
City officials chose not to evacuate the site, fearing it might spark more panic, and many people continued dancing, unaware of the deaths. Rescue workers carried away the injured as techno music thundered in the background.
Groovy. Kind of like a modern Woodstock, but with a body count.
The ill-fated festival was grounded in moonbattery:
The original Berlin Love Parade grew from a 1989 peace demonstration into a huge outdoor celebration of club culture that drew about 1.5 million people at its peak in 1999. But it suffered from financial problems and tensions with Berlin officials in later years, and eventually moved.
According to media reports, local police and firefighters expressed concerns early on about whether Duisburg was big enough to host over up to a million people or more, many of them possibly under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
The moral: when drug-addled neo-hippies gather in large numbers, be somewhere else.
Aftermath of the Love Parade. Compare with any Tea Party.
On a tip from Nancz.
