Post by magnetronnie on May 4, 2010 15:00:02 GMT -5
Every year on May 4th we remember Dutch people that died during all the wars we fought, mainly WW2 deaths, and a few thousand people come to the Dam square in Amsterdam to be silent for 2 minutes and hear our national anthem after that. The Queen and the royal family is also there, as well as most ministers.
We had an incident last year during Queensday with a maniac driving at high speed right into a group of people who were watching the Queen drive by. He killed about 10 people I believe. So people in our country are tense and afraid someone else is gonna try something in public again.
Well it kinda happened again.. some guy was shouting for a while, you can't hear that in the movie, but then you can hear a safety fence falling to the ground and people are in panic.
So far only a dozen orso people have been injured.. broken bones mostly.. but people from the crowd are telling it was very scary and people were falling down, children losing their mother/father, and elderly who couldn't get away fast enough.
It shows how dangerous mass panic can be in a huge crowd.
We had an incident last year during Queensday with a maniac driving at high speed right into a group of people who were watching the Queen drive by. He killed about 10 people I believe. So people in our country are tense and afraid someone else is gonna try something in public again.
Well it kinda happened again.. some guy was shouting for a while, you can't hear that in the movie, but then you can hear a safety fence falling to the ground and people are in panic.
So far only a dozen orso people have been injured.. broken bones mostly.. but people from the crowd are telling it was very scary and people were falling down, children losing their mother/father, and elderly who couldn't get away fast enough.
It shows how dangerous mass panic can be in a huge crowd.
and literally across the street from me! (if I walk for 3 minutes, I'm right there on Dam Square) These things remind you of all the crazy shit that's been going on.. Last year the incident with the car where several people died, this.. and then the stuff in other countries, like Poland and the Timesquare thing. It's a scary world we live in. I just forget sometimes..
(this is only funny for Ronnie and Judith though, because you have to understand what the Noord-zuidlijn is and what it has done to Amsterdam) - my mom told me this story..