Shoppers trampled to death - The perils of a consumer society

[masuki bance]

Shoppers trampled to death

From correspondents in Hong Kong

Agence France-Presse



TWO people were killed and 11 injured today as shoppers stampeded during a sales promotion in China.

The tragedy occurred in Chongqing's Fuling District after a promotion for a medicinal product drew throngs of people, news wire Xinhua quoted a district spokesman as saying.

"One of the dead was a 67-year-old lady,'' the spokesman told Xinhua.

"The 11 injured were being treated at Fuling Central Hospital. Two of them were severely injured.''
An investigation into the cause of the accident was underway, Xinhua reported.

This was the second fatal stampede in Chongqing since November 2007, when three people died and 31 were injured in a stampede triggered by a sales promotion at a Carrefour outlet, according to Xinhua.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25227179-401,00.html

These sales promotions can be fatal.

[cali]

1. so being trampled to death at the Haj is representative of the dangers of Islam

and being trampled to death at a football match is representative of the dangers of professional sports?

silly statement.

[masuki bance]

4. Crazy sales promotions that incite people to a frenzy have been killing people around the globe.

[cali]

7. and crazy religious rites have been killing people around the globe

and crazy sports events have been killing people around the globe. Mobs, when they lose control, are the problem, whether it's at a rock concert or a crazy sale.

[valerief]

2. Sounds like Chrismas season in the U.S. nt

[DS1]

3. I love the smell of trampling in the morning.

It smells like



feet

[damntexdem]

5. What's wrong with people nowadays?

Back in the good old days, people were only trampled to death at rock concerts!

[NYCGirl]

6. And all that damned rock music the kids like so much!

http://www.distant.ca/UselessFacts/fact.asp?ID=308

On December 3, 1979 outside the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio eleven people were killed and dozens were injured in a crush of people trying to get into the arena. Fans were waiting outside for a Who concert scheduled to take place that night.

Thousands of fans (with first-come, first-served festival seating tickets) rished towards the locked doors when they mistook the band's sound check for the concert having started. People were trampled and crushed before the doors were unlocked. The Who went on to play that night, unaware of the tragedy outside.





:sarcasm:

[TahitiNut]

8. "a promotion for a medicinal product"???

Viagra? :eyes: