[Leica] quite the photograph - lessons from Hong Kong

[cummer at netvigator.com (H&E Cummer)]

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:44:23 -0700
From: Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] quite the photograph - lessons from Hong Kong
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>

"If there ever is to be a crowd like this again, and the number of 
people was predicted, a much greater police/military presence will be 
needed."

Vancouver could take some lessons from Hong Kong about crowd control.
The Rugby 7's, every March, pour 40,000 people out of the stadium every
evening for three days - most quite drunk. There is a large police presence
with lots of motorcycle cops and an endless supply of free buses to take
the crowds away. When there are large demonstrations - 1/2 million on the
streets in 2003 - the police moved the barriers along with the crowd to
keep them away from the buildings. Of course there was little drinking 
involved in that demo.

For the future I think a number of smaller venues with fewer people may be
part of the answer and when the venue is full no one else is allowed in.
That is what is done for the South Stands at the 7's.

My 2 cents.

Howard