Re: The first time I saw it I thought.....damn, even the highway patrol are losing it.....that's how crazy CA seemed to me when I first got there.
From here, you ALL look crazy... clue:
But you think this is a sign of sanity:
"That point has been painfully driven home on several occasions. Since 1945,an estimated 1,000 people are believed to have died and 3,400 people injured in almost 30 serious soccer stadium accidents worldwide."
The worst tragedy in European soccer occurred during an FA Cup semi-final at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield in 1989 when police opened a main gate to thousands of Liverpool fans outside the stadium, resulting in a sudden inflowing surge that crushed 96 people to death.
dw-world.de
"During the 1998 World Cup a French policeman nearly died after being badly beaten by German fans. And earlier this year two Leeds United supporters were stabbed to death by followers of the Turkish club Galatasaray."
news.bbc.co.uk
"Unfortunately, that history is also dismal. In all too many years that the World Cup has been held, one or more games has ended in a riot, accidents, injuries, and even deaths. According to historians, soccer games have even been the causative factors in the start of armed conflicts. Examples include a 1989 soccer stampede in Sheffield, England that killed 94 fans (1) and injured another 170, a tragic fire in 1985 that took 56 lives at a stadium in Bradford, England, and a 1985 stampede in Heysel Stadium in Brussels that crushed the life out of 39 fans. Numerous other games have resulted in a lesser number of deaths, but have been violent just the same."
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