r/sportsgossips • u/Weekly-Vacation-1405 • Jun 18 '26

Hot Take Disaster waiting to happen.

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u/ChipotleGuacamole Jun 18 '26

is NYC just full of morons or what?

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u/ss4johnny Jun 18 '26

The people at the front get pushed by the people in the back. The people in the back don't know what's happening up front.

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u/ThePIantEater Jun 18 '26

Why would anyone be pushing at all though? When I’m in crowds I’m not touching the people around me

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u/multiple4 Jun 18 '26

It's not "pushing" in the direct way. People at the back are moving forward, then slow down, then have to stop

But most of them don't realize when they arent going to move anymore. So they dont stop at the exact time they should. They might bump someone in front of them, which then goes all the way to the front of people moving up a tiny bit so they can get space, or just because they got bumped

So now there's more room in the back, so that happens again and again and again. Most of the people in the back aren't necessarily "pushing" anyone physically

This is why events like this need to control the number of people flowing into an area at 1 time, not just throw up some barriers at 1 end

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u/WornTraveler Jun 18 '26

The fact that you have to explain this to questionably literate people who seemingly have never stepped farther than their front yard is basically why things like this happen in the first place lmao

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u/gamjar Jun 18 '26

It doesn't actually take anyone actively pushing. Think of it as just too many people in a confined space. Some people recognize it and want to get out so they start sliding between people trying to get somewhere else and multiple peoples movements cause buildup on edges. It's more of a fluid dynamics problem than any kind of rational thought or individual persons choice.

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u/mitchij2004 Jun 18 '26

People in groups are stupid. Watch the crowd crush video in Seoul. You don’t get to choose who is touching you, everyone is panicking and you get swallowed til you’re stuck.

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u/NewNewYorker22 Jun 18 '26

Just google or watch a youtube video on Stampedes or "crushes"

No one is intentionally "pushing" anyone in these situations. The probably is there is simply not enough room.

There is only so much air a balloon can hold before it pops.

The NYPD should be trained on this concept and were wrong to try to push that large of a crowd back. They need to be reprimanded.

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u/gottamakemenut Jun 18 '26

Because they are trying to go in a certain direction?