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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas More" data-source="post: 1541724" data-attributes="member: 8402">I was at a Mardi Gras parade in NOLA, on Saturday night before the actual Mardi Gras Tuesday. There was a wide sidewalk along Canal St., with steel barricades lining the street. It was fine during the parade, but after the parade, when people tried to get moving, there was a hard press on the sidewalk. If someone had fallen, there would have been no way to help them up. I had people crammed hard up against me on all sides, and it was that way from wall to barricade for a good stretch of the sidewalk. As long as I stayed on my feet I was fine, and the mass was slowly moving, so I shuffled along. After about 5 minutes, the press started to ease and then it opened up.I think presses can happen in all kinds of situations, from concerts, to Black Friday store openings, to parades. Usually once it's known that a risk of presses is there, they change the way things are done. For instance, stores no longer do early morning openings on Black Friday.In the case of concerts, I thought they had stopped general admission entry years ago to avoid this situation. They should have never done it this way for the Astroworld event.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas More, post: 1541724, member: 8402"] I was at a Mardi Gras parade in NOLA, on Saturday night before the actual Mardi Gras Tuesday. There was a wide sidewalk along Canal St., with steel barricades lining the street. It was fine during the parade, but after the parade, when people tried to get moving, there was a hard press on the sidewalk. If someone had fallen, there would have been no way to help them up. I had people crammed hard up against me on all sides, and it was that way from wall to barricade for a good stretch of the sidewalk. As long as I stayed on my feet I was fine, and the mass was slowly moving, so I shuffled along. After about 5 minutes, the press started to ease and then it opened up. I think presses can happen in all kinds of situations, from concerts, to Black Friday store openings, to parades. Usually once it's known that a risk of presses is there, they change the way things are done. For instance, stores no longer do early morning openings on Black Friday. In the case of concerts, I thought they had stopped general admission entry years ago to avoid this situation. They should have never done it this way for the Astroworld event. [/QUOTE]

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