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Originally Posted by conus00
From my own perspective I was caught in 30,000+ crowd in 1989 when Czech Republic got rid of communist government and let me tell you something: I am by no means weak person, but being part of crowd of that size is very strange feeling. Nothing went (too wrong) at that time but had those 30,000 people gone nuts then I (and I believe pretty much anyone here on subsim) would have crapped my pants.
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I was also caught in a large crowd that began to panic. The sheer energy of such a large volume of people is unimaginable. Even the 'big' and 'strong' would be easily trampled or suffocated. At that size, the group takes on a collective mind of it's own.