-> On 01 Dec 08  08:33:30, Richard Webb got back to Ross Cassell 
-> Re: So you want to make phun or merkans

 RC> Go to youtube and search on black friday, you can see plenty of herd
 RC> stampedes from years past. This isnt limited to black friday either

 RW> Yep, and then there was a rock conert in CIncinnatti back in '79. 
 RW> Before then going to concerts was sometimes the luck of the draw, what
 RW> they call "festival" seating.  After that incident things changed.
 
That was the culimination of an ongoing process.  Festival seating had 
been going on for a long time.  I saw the Who twice that way, among 
many other groups.  The first time it was fun.  The second time, it was a 
literal crush to get in.  

I was leading my girlfriend and and she got pushed up against my back.  I 
had nowhere to go.  She was able to lift both her feet off of the ground.  

To make matters worse, the Who sucked that night.  I warned her that 
they would be bad, but she didn't believe Me.  However, that lead to 
the good part of leaving early!    

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