The story is only going to get worse as more information comes out in the next few days.
This is an account from someone who saw people dying and tried to stop the concert, only to be told "gtfo, we're tryna make money here" as people scream for their lives, and drop dead, around her:
https://twitter.com/speedyred711/status/1456913478879432704?t=e3FXNhHrW83rCACeThNQsw&s=19
Here's a vid of her hopping on stage:
https://twitter.com/helowkeyspittin/status/1456893054384844802?t=L9gZT-DcOgw1huq9NizhuQ&s=19
I also present videos I gathered from Twitter. Some of these are NSFW, and include medics giving CPR to people who are passed out and/or dead:
https://twitter.com/LinaHidalgoTX/status/1456884063768301569?t=EywCKtXWqHGDWS8ezxFMLw&s=19
https://twitter.com/helowkeyspittin/status/1456891027130880000?t=PUoHs5_YEC1BogJLGztcAg&s=19
https://twitter.com/redblacc/status/1456919916926361608?t=gZG8dJGaBOYGzYNOyHXItg&s=19
https://twitter.com/ChaudharyParvez/status/1456918853800267776?t=WE4GVH23zimZN81zn0iqXg&s=19
https://twitter.com/LMFireSystems1/status/1456893701834293254?t=rG8HAPUNl93uIVxiLtO5Qg&s=19
https://twitter.com/helowkeyspittin/status/1456895045894803458?t=rj6EbBBkvDHCOa4t8QStbw&s=19
https://twitter.com/mvmo___/status/1456870414530064385?t=iGY1TCjCdUyewVJZPynG9w&s=19
https://twitter.com/cozyboycutz/status/1456888060944203776?t=ZIPpvObRfsA96NLGhWQe1A&s=19
That story from the first girl gave me feelings I didn't know were possible
https://twitter.com/speedyred711/status/1456913478879432704?t=e3FXNhHrW83rCACeThNQsw&s=19
I've seen gigabytes' worth of gore videos and people dying/murdered, piles of corpses etc
but her words make me feel unholy things. The part where it struck me was this:
"One person fell, or collapsed...Once one fell, a hole opened in the ground. It was like watching a Jenga tower topple. Person after person were sucked down."
"I was pushed away from the rail, into the crowd of people, where I could hear shrieks from another direction. It was happening all around me. These sinkholes of people. I was moved back towards the sinkhole I started at and was pushed to the edge of it"
When I read that, I realized it's like an hourglass with each person being a grain of sand. As one collapses, the hole is like a "vacuum" due to everyone pushing for lack of space, and the people are functionally sucked in.
and everyone is blissfully unaware of what's happening as they trample you to death
and the ones being trampled are the LUCKY ones, it's the ones underneath them, bearing the weight of multiple bodies which were sucked through the same "sinkhole", who physically cannot expand their lungs against the weight of 2 people AND the crowd trampling upon those 2 people--those are the corpses that were blue and had no pulse for15 minutes that the paramedics were talking about.
nothing mayo lovecraft writes can top this stuff
Don't read the hashtag, it's super fucked. I didn't know Travis Scott was like a Fortnite skin and a happy meal toy, so there were kids there, there's talk of kids as young as 10 dying. There's some reddit post from a doctor who claims there was untrained medical staff on call who didn't know wtf they were doing, lots of teenagers performing CPR on each other, lots of people talking of barely making it alive, a nurse who passed out and once she woke up on the med rent, she was recruited into giving first aid because of the lack of staff, it's just unbelievable.
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and apparently, the 10 year old kid didn't die, but was injured. And the official death count is still at 8. Although it's probably fake and being repressed by the police
When I think about the physics/spatials of it...if they had simply done away with those rows of space between the rails--so that the entire audience was one huge mass--then you easily could've had thousands of people dead instead of dozens
I’ve been in one where a couple people fall in one direction and it’s like dominoes. Luckily it was small and not as crowded as this fest but you’re really at the mercy of the crowd if you end up falling with it.
Humans in an overpacked crowd like that become like a fluid, and obey all rules of fluid dynamics.
It's not "trampling" that kills. It is having your chest compressed by the crowd crush that prevents you from breathing. Any journalist who reports a "stampede" is an uneducated piece of shit.