Love Parade cancelled forever?

blow69 · 25-07-2010 03:11PM #1

Due to a fatal crush yeaterday which led to the death of nineteen people, the organisers have decided to discontinue the event which attracts well over 1 million people each year.

Taken form The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/germany

Do you think it is a complete overreaction? I think it is. The planning was seemingly very poor with only one entrance and it was held in a town with a population of just 500,000.

I had really wanted to go to this at some stage in my life.

Bodhisopha · 25-07-2010 03:16PM

It's a free event right? I don't think it's an overreaction at all.

Pauleta · 25-07-2010 03:16PM

Im sure it will be back but under a different name and format.

mollzer · 25-07-2010 03:20PM

In my opinion I think the organisers are right to cancel it forever. It would always be remembered for the deaths of those 19 people, not for what it was initially started for.
A terrible, terrible thing to have happened.

Cool_CM · 25-07-2010 03:21PM

In no way an overreaction, there was enough trouble finding somewhere else to host it when berlin couldn't fund it anymore. It was supposed to be cancelled then. This incident seemed to be the last straw. People i know who went to it in duisberg said that the set up was ridiculous and mentioned the tunnel specifically. Tragic, but not unexpected

My name is URL · 25-07-2010 03:22PM

They just need more Techno-Vikings

smellslikeshoes · 25-07-2010 03:23PM

19 people are dead, definitely not an overreaction.

bonerm · 25-07-2010 03:25PM

This sort of thing wouldn't happen at Hate Parade.

Motley Crue · 25-07-2010 03:29PM

blow69 wrote: »

Do you think it is a complete overreaction?

I think it's an under reaction, they should jail the organisers for endangering and taking people's lives....hands up who wants to tell a parent their child is dead and that it's just an accident, nobodies fault, might as well of been there own....

rovert · 25-07-2010 03:30PM

RE-BRANDING TIME

mikom · 25-07-2010 03:32PM

blow69 wrote: »

Due to a fatal crush yeaterday which led to the death of nineteen people, the organisers have decided to discontinue the event which attracts well over 1 million people each year.

Taken form The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/germany

Techno notice of what's written in that rag.

Bowel Cancer · 25-07-2010 03:33PM

My name is URL wrote: »

They just need more Techno-Vikings

Techno Viking was with the **** Parade. His sort wouldn't be too into the Love Parade.

Berlin probably moved on from the Love Parade so this might be the end.

bonerm · 25-07-2010 03:33PM

mikom wrote: »

Techno notice of what's written in that rag.

E-xactly. It's just more Raving from the Guardian.

Keano · 25-07-2010 03:34PM

mikom wrote: »

Techno notice of what's written in that rag.

Is that supposes to be funny? Considering 19 people lost their lives and numerous people hurt.

laugh · 25-07-2010 03:35PM

"zee germans are coming", "but we are zee germans"

rovert · 25-07-2010 03:36PM

What is wrong with the Guardian?

me-skywalker · 25-07-2010 03:36PM

A few ppl die in an accident, (tragic yes, unavoidable yes) but should we now all go back and hide in our cages?

poodles · 25-07-2010 03:37PM

I was at it twice in 2005 and 2007.

This wouldn't have happened if it was on in Berlin

starlit · 25-07-2010 03:41PM

why did they call it the love parade?

Michael B · 25-07-2010 03:41PM

Awful thing to happen. Imagine if the likes of that happened at Electric Picnic or Oxegen? And the panic those poor people must have gone through before they died. I don't think they should cancel it forever but they should organise it better in the future.

anniehoo · 25-07-2010 03:41PM

What a tragedy..19 people dying! Definitely not an over reaction but what a ridiculously stupid place to have a festival of that size.

I was at it in Berlin in 1999 and it was amazing,but it was held in the streets up by the Brandenburg Gate.Everyone was free to move about and come and go as they pleased.Most people were hammered and/or off their face but i didnt see one bit of trouble the entire weekend.

Maybe theres a new organising committee or something as the old school ones wouldnt have allowed something of that size (theres always 1million+ at it) in a bloody tunnel with one exit.

Shame

starlit · 25-07-2010 03:43PM

yes very true. they should have had a limit of the number of people who attended though as the accident could have been avoided. shame really, they need to adhear to saftey measures which needs to be improved if they were to ever hold an event like that again. better they have it on solid ground where oxygen was held on muddy ground.

Slunk · 25-07-2010 03:45PM

Was at this in 2008 in Dortmund. Was cancelled in 09 because Bochum felt there would be too many people for the town to cope with. There was alot of meetings before this years and doubt wether it would go ahead.I hope it is not the end for LP, hopefully they will learn from this and organise it better in the future. Id say it will be a few years before theres thought of another one but I do hope there will be.

mikom · 25-07-2010 03:46PM

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Is that supposes to be funny? Considering 19 people lost their lives and numerous people hurt.

And you chose to single this post out above others.... why?

Micky Dolenz · 25-07-2010 03:47PM

Terrible tragedy that could have been so easily avoided.

Biggins · 25-07-2010 03:47PM

Times article:

Bowel Cancer · 25-07-2010 03:49PM

I think they tried to have one in Leeds back in 2001 or so and it had to be abandoned to abandoned for a nearby field site due to safety concerns. Berlin is one of the few cities where it could work given the layout of the streets.

poodles · 25-07-2010 03:52PM

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=108_1280050216

Elevator · 25-07-2010 04:38PM

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Is that supposes to be funny? Considering 19 people lost their lives and numerous people hurt.

they took a shortcut and in hindsight just cos everyone else was doing it didn't make it right

with numbers of 1 million or more people at the party it's not a huge number to have died even in a tragic circumstance

not like hillsborough or the fire that blazed thru that club in Dublin

also why should the organisers be jailed or be forced to call it a day, nobody forced these people to attend and it falls on themselves to be safe and stick to designated areas when doing so

Slunk · 25-07-2010 04:53PM

Elevator wrote: »

they took a shortcut and in hindsight just cos everyone else was doing it didn't make it right

also why should the organisers be jailed or be forced to call it a day, nobody forced these people to attend and it falls on themselves to be safe and stick to designated areas when doing so

If im not mistaken, that was the designated way to get to the event. It wasnt a shortcut.

Second paragraph of the times article if you bothered to read it

FlutterinBantam · 25-07-2010 04:57PM

Bunch of idiots ,obviously out of it, caused the chaos.

Should never be heard of again.

Just an excuse for spongers and wasters to run wild.

Love Parade cancelled forever?

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