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2018-12-08 Europe

At least 6 killed and dozens wounded after nightclub stampede in Italy

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-08 02:13|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 six people are dead and dozens wounded following a stampede at an Italian nightclub,

What were the cattle doing in the nightclub?

Posted by AlanC 2018-12-08 07:48|| 2018-12-08 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Fucking journalists, calling them "stampedes". This brings to mind a bunch of irresponsible people stomping on each other trying to get out. It's not. It's a "crowd crush", too many people in too small a space. The mass of humanity takes on the physics of a fluid and it is easy to have your chest compressed such that you cannot breathe.

Stampede, fuck those lying sacks of shit.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-12-08 08:36|| 2018-12-08 08:36|| Front Page Top

#3 What were the cattle doing in the nightclub?

Big Girl's Night.

Posted by Frank G 2018-12-08 10:01|| 2018-12-08 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 You are right about the asphyxia, Herb, but the description as a stampede has historical precedent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who_concert_disaster

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-08 10:03|| 2018-12-08 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 What were the cattle doing in the nightclub?

When I lived in PeeAye, two common labels for "Ladies Nite" were:

Heifer nite
Divorce Court

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-08 10:05|| 2018-12-08 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 What, because of a single time 40 years ago makes it OK for journalists to lie today? WTF?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-12-08 14:34|| 2018-12-08 14:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, sure enough, looking it up reveals that the deaths at that concert were by compressive asphyxia, NOT a "stampede". Journalists lied about it then and haven't changed one bit.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/chwe/ps269/johnson.pdf

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-12-08 14:45|| 2018-12-08 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Personally, I prefer Ballroom Blitz.

I couldn't figure the cause of the rush from the blurb other than Rap Concert, so I checked the article.

Note the ages of the victims. Post midnight.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-12-08 15:20|| 2018-12-08 15:20|| Front Page Top

#9 STAMPEDE

just because

Posted by Frank G 2018-12-08 17:00|| 2018-12-08 17:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Bet that totally spoiled his birthday. And is it too early to declare Eleonora Cool Mom of the Year? Lucky daughter there.

Cent'anni, Gionata Boschetti,
To ponder five lives! Cue confetti.
Now go and get high,
Maybe have a good cry,
Or just die. Wrap it up when you're ready.

Posted by Angomomp Smith2152 2018-12-08 17:08|| 2018-12-08 17:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Would it make you feel better if they had died in a deluge?

Posted by Archie Bunker 2018-12-08 18:31|| 2018-12-08 18:31|| Front Page Top

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