Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Similarly the IPL cricket tournament in India (94 matches over a month in 11 stadia) routinely draw crowds, day in and day out, of 40,000 to 100000, depending on the stadium, and it always goes off without a hitch, whether it be crowd behaviour or threatened terrorist attacks! The key I think is that alcohol is strictly prohibited, in fact you cannot take any food or drink inside. Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >