Happy 2013, Here’s Your STAMPEDE!
A bunch of Africans gathered at the local soccer stadium to stare in awe at the magic of New Year’s Eve fireworks, and then they promptly stampeded to get somewhere else, killing 60 and injuring over 200. Like where the hell were they going? Even when they got there, they’d still be in freakin’ AFRICA!
From Foxnews here:
A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year’s fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast’s commercial center, killing 61 people — many of them youths — and injuring more than 200.
Thousands had gathered at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan’s Plateau district to see the fireworks. After the show, the crowds poured onto the Boulevard de la Republic by the Hotel Tiama at about 1 a.m.
Most of those killed were between 8 and 15 years old. Hours after the stampede, soldiers patrolled the site, where victims’ clothes, shoes and other debris littered the street. State TV showed traumatic scenes: a woman sobbed in the back of an ambulance; another was bent over on the side of the street, apparently in pain; and another, barely conscious and wearing only a bra on her upper body, was hoisted up by rescuers.
This is not Ivory Coast’s first stadium tragedy. In 2009, 22 people died and over 130 were injured in a stampede at a World Cup qualifying match at the Houphouet Boigny stadium. The stadium, which officially holds 35,000, was overcrowded at the time of the disaster.
A year later, two people were killed and 30 wounded in a stampede at a municipal stadium during a reggae concert in Bouake.
Getting crushed in a stampede is an awful way to go, but it seems these folks in Ivory Coast just don’t learn their lessons. How many more stampedes will they have before self-absorbed Hollywood douchebags ban together to make a shitty black and white video chiding Africans for stampeding?
