THe bolded bit, it can if, say a room can hold 500 people at absolute max capacity and one more person will cause someone to be crushed, then if a 501st person pushes into that room it will basically require a constant force for him to even stay in the room. Basically too many people in any area = constant force. Think of two people hugging really tight, you put effort into simply pulling someone into you(and not even crushing force) as soon as you stop pulling you move apart.
Ok, so now imagine that "room" has 3,000 people in it. Except that you can't tell that, because nobody could count a mass of people of that number easily. You can't even see the other side anyway, all you can really see is a few metres into the room. It might not even be that busy by the door, with a few signs of what looks like space beyond the first few people.
But the thing is, you've been told that there are no more than 500 people in this room. So whilst it looks like it's packed near the door, you probably assume that there's plenty of space beyond it. It can and does happen all the time. So maybe a little bit of squeezing to get in, but once there, you're all gravy.
Are you really saying that if you travelled across the country to get to this room, having paid money to be there, and under the assumption that there would only be enough tickets for the right amount of people to fit into this room, you wouldn't even be
tempted to try to get in? You'd just turn around and walk away?
Oh sorry, you can't walk away. Turns out there are now loads of people around you, also looking to get into the room, and you're stuck.
To use one of your analogies, have you ever been to a tube station where it's really packed by the entrance/exit, but there's more space further down the platform? I mean, that's true of nearly every station I've ever been in.
Are you telling me you've never had to push past people to get to that space?
I've been in loads of stituations with massive crowds, patiently waiting at the back and even eventually having to be turned away. Onto massively packed tube stations where if everyone at the back simply pushed, hundreds of people would be pushed onto the tracks, the insanely tight and cramped corridoors at Highbury, near the front in concerts.
DM, I'm confused. Are you really saying that the same Liverpool fans who had already gone to god knows how many home and away games in just that season without incident, suddenly decided to abandon all sense and start pushing each other in? I mean, you even say it yourself:
LIke I said, people packed in like sardines in thousands of terraces for decades with barely a problem, yet this one time fans were incapable of seeing when an area was full, and just ploughed on in anyway?
Erm, maybe because the
organisation of this particular event was at fault?
