![]() ![]() I’ve never liked crowds…in a group IQ often plummets. Haven’t spoken to her, but I’m sure she had a great time. ![]() I thought about this kind of thing a few weeks ago, when my niece attended the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, a big electronic-music festival I’d never previously heard of. 1990, with 3 kids in college, my dad got a moonlighting job doing security at a local civic auditorium, and after working a number of events, he told our mom, “I can’t believe I had a problem with the kids going to rock concerts I sure am glad they weren’t country music fans!” Attendees of the latter, at least at the time and that venue, were much more likely to come in drunk and start fights, among other things. I was just going into high school when that Who concert happened, and for about a decade afterwards, my parents were very nervous about my sibs and I going to rock concerts, although we always did come home in one piece. I’m not familiar with this performer, but it sounds like he’s very popular with kids, and many of the victims were minors and were there with their parents.Įarlier today, I saw an interview on CNN with a concertgoer who was also an ICU nurse, and she was horrified at how inadequate the staffing and supplies were for a crowd this big, something that of course only became apparent after disaster struck. ![]() Officials said the crowd pushed toward the stage and caused injuries amid the panic at the concert in Houston. Washington Post – 6 Nov 21 Eight dead, including teens, after a crowd surge at Travis Scott’s Astroworld. The man who fell later sued Scott, alleging that a surging crowd had pushed him off the balcony after the performer beseeched people to jump from the lower levels. “They gonna catch you, don’t be scared! Fall!” “I see you, but are you gonna do it?” Scott said, according to New York news site Gothamist. At one point, Scott assured someone that people in the mosh pit below would catch them. Scott eventually pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.Īlso in 2017, a man fell from a balcony at the Terminal 5 concert venue in New York City after Scott encouraged his fans to jump. A police officer, a security guard and several other people reported injuries in the May 2017 incident. He faced new charges two years later after allegedly encouraging fans to join him onstage at a show near Fayetteville, Ark. Scott pleaded guilty to reckless conduct charges later that year and was ordered under court supervision. In August 2015, he was charged with disorderly conduct after police said he urged fans to climb over barricades at Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival and led a chant of “We want rage.” Security stopped Scott five minutes into his performance, and Chicago emergency officials said he fled before being taken into custody. Scott, whose legal name is Jacques Webster, has a history of issues with crowd control at his shows. There’s obviously a problem in terms of who was in charge of safety and crowd management that something more wasn’t done as the show went on, and that it wasn’t set up properly in the first place. It sounds like the performer has a history of terrible judgment/criminal misconduct involving the crowds at his live shows, but it also sounds like he “paused” the show several times to try to get help for people in distress. ![]()
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