http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/2009/01/30/morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-29-2009/ Eclectic Musings For Distinctly Morbid Minds Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/2009/01/30/morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-29-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-105 PekingGoose Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:28:22 +0000 http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/?p=117#comment-105 The details of this kind of event are confusing to me. Not like being run over by a steam roller or stepped on by an elephant. How does this work? Does one asphyxiate because the lungs can no longer take in air and how flat are the first to fall? How tightly wedged must they have been if 20 men could not separate the stack? I guess there was no keystone affect going on there (pop the center one out and the rest loosen and fall). The details of this kind of event are confusing to me. Not like being run over by a steam roller or stepped on by an elephant. How does this work? Does one asphyxiate because the lungs can no longer take in air and how flat are the first to fall? How tightly wedged must they have been if 20 men could not separate the stack? I guess there was no keystone affect going on there (pop the center one out and the rest loosen and fall).

]]> http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/2009/01/30/morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-29-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Victoria Feschuk Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:29:42 +0000 http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/?p=117#comment-100 My Great-Grandmother was the piano player in the theatre at the time. She recounted the horror of forcibly pulling children out of the theatre after they had been wedged tightly into the confined spaces My Great-Grandmother was the piano player in the theatre at the time. She recounted the horror of forcibly pulling children out of the theatre after they had been wedged tightly into the confined spaces

]]> http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/2009/01/30/morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-29-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Maika Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:56:24 +0000 http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/?p=117#comment-99 I'm not entirely sure why, but there is something so much darker and more chilling about a tale of children stampeding and crushing each other to death compared to the reports one sometimes hears about adults in similar situations. I’m not entirely sure why, but there is something so much darker and more chilling about a tale of children stampeding and crushing each other to death compared to the reports one sometimes hears about adults in similar situations.

]]> http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/2009/01/30/morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-29-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-96 MoxieHart Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:20:00 +0000 http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/?p=117#comment-96 That reminds me of that book, I think I actually heard about it from here, <i>The Circus Fire</i>. That reminds me of that book, I think I actually heard about it from here, The Circus Fire.

]]> http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/2009/01/30/morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-29-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Aimee Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:18:46 +0000 http://asylumeclectica.com/grim/?p=117#comment-93 Get 'em young, indeed! Talk about yelling fire in a crowded theater. Get ‘em young, indeed!
Talk about yelling fire in a crowded theater.

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