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Subject: [Leica] quite the photograph - lessons from Hong Kong
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:45:17 +0530
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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
>
>
>
>
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