I was sick to my stomach all day. On the way to work, I heard that there was a fight in a nightclub, pepper spray was used, and there was a stampede to get out of the club. 21 PEOPLE DIED! TRAMPLED TO DEATH! I am absolutely sickened! 60 are still in the hospital.
Did these people become animals? Like a heard of buffalo? Survival of the fittest? They came out to have a fun night, and 21 people ended up dying. The sickest part is the thought of people just trampling over these bodies. It was so preventable! The capacity of this place is 800, and 1500 were let in! People were packed in like sardines! In college, I was in crowded bars all the time, but there was always more than one exit. Being in a crowded bars bites, it is not fun at all, but compound it by the fact that you are in a bar where people's survival instinct kicks in and leads to 21 deaths! I picture these people being like animals... Looking out for yourself, not helping, killing people beneath your feet to escape from something that is NOT GOING TO KILL YOU. Animals!
The dumb ass security then chained the doors at the bottom and were not letting anyone out. They killed these people! I have been tear gased before, IT SUCKS! I can't see crushing somebody's skull to get away from some pepper spray, which is less severe. I am sick! I have been thinking of what being there must have been like, but I can't and don't even want to picture it. My morbid curiosity will force me to consume all these images in the newspaper and on the news tonight. This was less than 20 miles from my home! I pray for these familes, these mothers who said "Bye sweetie, have fun tonight." Well, sweetie didn't come home.