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JustABozoOnThisBus

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4. And this death count is nowhere near the record ...

Reply to ellenrr (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 06:41 AM

Sep 2015

Last edited Thu Sep 24, 2015, 11:24 AM - Edit history (1)

... but still, it's newsworthy.

If only to expose the continuing lack of crowd control at this event.

Edit to add: when I wrote the death count is nowhere near the record, the count was 310. It's going up.

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Hajj stampede: At least 717 killed in Saudi Arabia [View all] muriel_volestrangler Sep 2015 OP

Horrible trusty elf Sep 2015 #1

May they all rest in peace leftynyc Sep 2015 #2

hardly news... happens every year. ellenrr Sep 2015 #3

And this death count is nowhere near the record ... JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2015 #4

exactly, one year 1400 people died, ellenrr Sep 2015 #29

I watched a program about LiberalElite Sep 2015 #5

I feel the same way !! secondwind Sep 2015 #7

I don't even like going to concerts or sporting events - too many people! Elmer S. E. Dump Sep 2015 #10

I'm the same wordpix Sep 2015 #33

I'll take a private concert in my living room. Maybe she'd let me harmonize. Elmer S. E. Dump Sep 2015 #36

Don't EVER read about the Black Hole of Calcutta, then... Blue_Tires Sep 2015 #31

This happens every year.. I don't understand why they can't come up with a way to avoid this. secondwind Sep 2015 #6

Actually, this is the worst since 1990; 2006 was almost as bad, and they made changes muriel_volestrangler Sep 2015 #8

Now reporting more than 700 hlthe2b Sep 2015 #9

k and r. nt Stuart G Sep 2015 #11

reminds me of the Eloi in The Time Machine RussBLib Sep 2015 #12

Here's what it looked like in 1953: hunter Sep 2015 #13

I'm dismayed to read this...You'd think the Saudis would be Blue_Tires Sep 2015 #19

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thanks for that pic. from 1953, ellenrr Sep 2015 #30

like can't they like do this on like Skype or something ? olddots Sep 2015 #14

IMHO, Islam could use a pope-equivalent or a synod-like body Retrograde Sep 2015 #22

Traveling to Mecca to perform the rituals outside of Hajj week is called Umrah jmowreader Sep 2015 #26

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Brainwashed by fiction and superstition.. vkkv Sep 2015 #15

So are the Saudis looking to stir up hunger for a war with "some African nations?" nt valerief Sep 2015 #16

Is this the dumbest mass event held every year or is there one more ignorant? snooper2 Sep 2015 #17

+1000 smirkymonkey Sep 2015 #20

+1 FLPanhandle Sep 2015 #35

Lemmings. El Supremo Sep 2015 #18

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The "status" thing is not overexaggerated jmowreader Sep 2015 #27

Crowd crush is no joke alcibiades_mystery Sep 2015 #21

Fucking, idiotic, religious zealots rusty fender Sep 2015 #23

Omg, this is horrible wordpix Sep 2015 #32

Saudi health minister blaming pilgrims for "not following instructions" tawadi Sep 2015 #34