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Old 08-07-2019, 05:29 PM   #11
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Love Parade had an estimated 1.4 million people. Unfortunately 21 people died and that was the last Love Parade.

Having been to many festivals around the world, I'm honestly surprised their isn't more deaths at these things. While they are very organized and 99.9% of the people there dont' cause problems, I've been in some absolutely wild overpacked crowds during peak hour while everyone is drunk and rolling, and felt fear many times.

I went to Tomorrowland in 2016 and got caught in a massive crowd of people bottlenecking in an extremely poor exit and there was nothing the staff, police or crowd could do. I didn't hear any news stories about that, but I'm certain many people were injured that night.

Terrifying the feeling of an ocean of people pushing you from behind....

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Between 200,000 and 1.4 million people were reported to be attending the event and 3,200 police were on hand.
What a bizarre estimate. You'd think you could pull a little closer to actual numbers than a range of 1.2 million.
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