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What's the fastest you've seen a crowd go from excited to horrified?
An animal show at Busch gardens.
The camels started ducking.
The entire assembled students from the elementary school where teacher/astronaut Christa McAuliffe
taught at, who were broadcast live to the world, as they watched the space shuttle Challenge
explode seconds after take off.
Killing all hands on board, including their teacher.
The climax of the last Twilight movie is a fight scene that goes on for 10 minutes.
Vampires are ripping each other's heads off, giant wolves are throwing them around like
chew toys, and one-by-one each of Bella's friends and family die around her.
You can actually hear people in the audience react as each named character dies.And none
of this happened in the book, which was criticized for its lack of climax.
As each minute goes on, it feels like they improved the film's story to give it a real
sense of danger and excitement and payoff to the series.So sheet's intense.
And right as they hill the big bad evil guy, the camera fades to black, pulls out, and
reveals that all of it was a vision.
The last 10 minutes didn't happen- it was someone seeing a future that might happen.
No one died.
Just a bunch of vampires and wolves standing around staring at each other in silence.
Then they all walk away, alive and well.The crowd groans.
A girl up front shouts "Are you sheetting me?!"
Everyone sits back in their seat; no one cares about what's happening on screen anymore.
Some people are laughing because someone hit the undo button on the most exciting 10 minutes
of the movie.Never have I seen a theater turn on a film so quickly and so hard.
Pink Floyd often would have giant floating pigs released during the concert, you know
inflatable balloons.
This would happen like half way through the show.
Well people are smoking tons of pot, drinking, doing god knows what other drugas, so by the
time the pig is released it's basically like god descending from the heavens.
People were losing their sheet at the pig.
Well it got caught in one of the wires and caught on fire.
You've never seen so many stoners fall to their knees in terror/fee er/sorrow over the
death of a giant inflatable pig.
There is no god anymore, his bacon got fried.
There was a guy performing risky stunt dives in a river for money, he pulled off great
stuff and people were clapping and clearly hyped.
One of the tricks went really bad and he crashed head-first into a rock from a decent height
and hilled himself.
A friend of mine decided it would be fun to try and see if he could smash a beer glass
on his head.
Up until then he was just being a enthusiastic drunk and had some positive attention.
He then decided the beer glass thing was a good idea and promptly executed it.Head wounds
bleed A LOT in the first minute.
Crowd when from 'auw, you're cute' to 'duck he's gonna die'.I sobered up in an instant
and got a (semi) clean towel for him to stop the bleeding.
Thankfully head wounds also stop bleeding pretty quick in most instances.
WWE's Over The Edge 1999
Owen Hart fell 70 feet to his death during the event, and the company inexplicably continued
on with the show after he'd been taken to a hospital
I saw this on YouTube somewhere.
A bodybuilder was strutting his stuff in front of a crowd, warming them up and everything
at an event.
They absolutely loved it--many people had attended just to see him.
He was at his peak, huge muscles and sculpted physique, absolutely amazing (I don't personally
like the bodybuilding look but you've gotta respect hard work).The crowd was cheering
him and he got so pumped up, so full of energy and emotion that instead of just walking onto
the stage he did an impromptu jump-flip.
He launched himself high into the air and did this impressive flip.
The crowd went berserk.But he was a bodybuilder, not a gymnast.
He landed on his neck and died instantly,crumpling on the spot.
It is one of the most horrific, sudden and unexpected things I've ever seen.Maybe the
worst part was not all of the crowd realized immediately.
They kept smiling and cheering for their hero for another minute before it sank in that
they had just witnessed him die right in front of them and they were clapping for a dead
man.=====
Edit: his name was Sifiso Lungelo Thabete, only 23 years old, from South Africa.
He was a Junior World Champion in his weight category.
For those who are asking, a few people in the comments have posted the link.
It's here.
I very much do not recommend watching; it's tragic and horrible.
Obviously not safe for work/NSFL for death.
7-8 years ago during a concert there was an earthquake, not too huge, but enough for some
speakers to fall and to scare the sheet out of those attending.
An American comedian in the Republic of Ireland saying how happy he was to be in the United
Kingdom
Monday Night Football, November 18th, 1985.
Washington Redskins vs. the New York Giants.
I was pretty young at the time so being allowed to stay up late on a weekday was a rare occasion.
During one of the plays, Joe Theismann was sacked by Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson
of the Giants.
The entire stadium went silent as Theismann would end up suffering a compound fracture
of the tibia and fibula.
What I remember most vividly is that the broadcast kept replaying it over and over again and
seeing shin snap at a 90 degree angle.
It made me physically nauseous and had to walk out of the room.
If I recall correctly, following the injury, broadcasting policies were changed so that
constant replays like this would not be shown in the future.EDIT: Surprised to see how memorable
this was for others as well.
As a budding Redskins fan at the time, I gained a huge amount of respect for Lawrence Taylor
that day.
I understand that injuries are a part of all sports.
It's a level of risk that many are willing to take.
It was the need to keep replaying it over and over again from every imaginable angle
that made the impression.
Thank you all for sharing your similar experiences.
During a Buffalo Sabres game Clint Malarchuk took an ice skate to the neck severing his
carotid artery and partially cutting his jugular vein.
He almost bled out on the ice.The sight was so horrifying 2 fans had heart attacks and
11 others fainted.
Numerous fans vomited at the sight of all the blood.Malarchuk thought he was going to
die on the ice so his only thought was getting off the ice so his mom didn't have to watch
him die on TV.
He asked for a priest and had the equipment manager call his mom to tell her he loved
her.The only reason he didn't die is the Sabres' athletic trainer was a combat medic in Vietnam.My
parents were at the game and said that most of the fans assumed the worst and that seeing
the ice turn red was one of the more horrifying things they'd seen in person.
I was at some weird zoo/animal preserve north of Phoenix in 2012, and there was a tigress
in chain-linked compound.
This little girl went up to her and blew her a kiss.
The tigress looked at her at licked her (her own, not the little girl's) whiskers, and
the crowd went "Awwwwwwww."The the tigress shifted a little bit and pizzed all over the
little girl.The crowd was shocked and horrified, but I laughed my ats off.
I don’t know if this counts but I’m a huge fan of 90s rock.
Korn, Slipknot, Seether, Mushroomhead, etcetera
Anyways I’ve ALWAYS wanted to see Marilyn Manson in concert and he was opening for I
think one of the mentioned bands above a few years back.Anyways, he comes on and just looked
horrible, kind of slurring but whatever I get it.
So like 4 songs in he starts singing “Beautiful People” and mostly everyone seemed in to
it.
Well maybe because it’s TX and it was an outdoor venue over 100 degrees but he just
goes, “duck it, y’all suck” and walks off stage.
Took a few seconds to register with every one he wasn’t joking and every starts booing
and cussing.
I was legit excited and it just turned to garbage so quick...
I was at a Van Halen concert a few years back and David Lee Roth comes on the mic and says
"This next one is from our new album"
We were all 17-18 on a school trip.
Typical week away doing rock climbing, archery, camping etcetera
At the end of the trip we’re gathered in a big hall for one final gathering and then
out of the blue there was a demonstration on how to effectively hill a chicken... using
a live chicken that was hilled in front of us all for some reason.
No warning.
Several years back and my band opens up for a hard-core punk outfit from Illinois at an
all ages venue where they have a Sci-fi theme to their show.
The singer dresses up as a mad scientist and the other three members dress up as his "evil
robots."
They also have old television sets plugged in around the stage playing 1950s B horror
movies while they play.
No one including the people running the venue have ever seen these guys play before but
going off of the theme we are expecting something awesome.
That is until I'm backstage putting my equipment away and notice them all pounding back shots
of tequila.
When it's their turn to play they're so hammered they can't even make it through one verse
of a song.
The singer ended up drop kicking one of the tvs into the crowd of about 200 people, which
caught fire.
This caused the sound guy to end their set right there and they were banned from the
venue for life.
I've never seen a crowd go from happy to oh sheet so fast.
Diablo Immortal announcement
Last week at a black lives matter protest they were letting anyone come up and speak
through a megaphone.
This man got up and started talking about his newborn son and how he wanted to make
sure we have a better world for him.
He then started talking about love and unity and the guy essentially had the crowd eating
out of the palm of his hand.
Then he brought up Bill Cosby and how he was arrested on allegations and the crowd turned
instantly.
At my friends wedding
The groom kicked the flower boy
He was no more than 10, so yeah
I, along with an entire beach front of about 80+ people, watched a boat back up and chop
a lady up into pieces.
It was bad.
..
I was at a 4th of July fireworks show in Ft.Walton- Destin Florida.
The show was being staged from the inlet from the Gulf of Mexico to the bay.
People were watching it from the other side of the inlet, the highway 98 bridge and from
their boats on the water.The first salvo launched, but one of the shells exploded either in the
launch tube or just above and ignited the rest of the show on the ground.
Some launched a little bit before exploding.
What was supposed to be a 30-40 minute show lasted 1-2 minutes.As the first shells blew
up, I could see the silhouette of the technicians as they ran, like a stop motion movie.
The technicians were cool ashell since none of them were looking back at the explosions.
I never realized how big the bursts were until I saw them going off on the ground.Everybody
was trying to get away.
We were being hit by pieces of fireworks.
They weren't just landing on everybody, they were hitting us.
My dad started the boat, but realized we couldn't move.
A lot of kids were watching the show while they floated in the water.
We were yelling at the other boats to stop because of the kids in the water.
Fortunately, enough people heard/listened or realized what the problem now was that
they stopped and locked everybody in place.Nobody was seriously hurt or hilled-only a few techs
were treated for minor burns.
On that day, those techs outran Usain Bolt.
On the beach.
Wearing safety gear
Detroit tigers “almost perfect game”.
We all saw the play and the dude was out; we all start celebrating....then we slowly
realize the ump called him safe.
Celebration quickly turned to the opposite.Technically not horrified but still the fastest 180 I’ve
seen or been a part of.
R.Bud Dwyer’s Press Conference that turned into a filmed suicide.
I wasn't present, but the Sugarland stage collapse must have been up there..
..There was a Derren Brown show called remote control.
It was all about the effects of mob mentality.
The crowd had to decide whether something nice happened or something bad happened to
the same person.
Each time the thing would be better or worse than the last.
Eventually it led to them deciding that he would be kidnapped (they were all watching
live on hidden cameras in a studio by the way).
When the kidnapping was attempted it showed him evading them but running into the road
and getting hit by a car.
The whole crowd gasped and eventually people asked the filming to stop.
The last part was just an actor/stuntman though.....
Woodstock 99.
Everyone was super cool and chill and all of a sudden it felt like the winds shifted.
It was palpable, like you could cut the air it was so heavy.
Got a super bad vibe so we packed up immediately and left.
By the time we got to the first gas station reports of fire and rioting started.
When working on a kids show a child goes missing within the first 15 minutes of the show starting.
Show had an emergency stop so the parents could plead for the child to make himself
known.
Nobody was allowed to leave their seats or leave the building.
Whole building had to be searched.
Everyone assumed the worse but after half an hour they resumed the show even though
the kid still had not been found.Ten minutes later we got word that the kid had wandered
out of the building and was found safe and sound around the corner.To make matters worse
the show was Rapunzel, you know where the story centres around a kidnapped child.
The Station nightclub fire.
Small packed club.
Great White was playing with unauthorized pyrotechnics.
Suddenly caught the building on fire.
Emergency exits were locked and people jammed the exit door.
100 died.Thankfully didn't see it in person but there is a youtube video showing the whole
thing.
It is a very traumatic watch though so wouldn't really watch it unless you want it imprinted
strong enough in your brain so that you will always look for exits when going into a crowded
area for the rest of your life.
Derren Brown: Remote Control
Derren Brown is a TV magician, illusionist, sort of like a Penn and Teller of psychics
and this show is on mob mentality.He has an audience prank a man (Chris) who has consented
to be messed with for a Darren Brown show at an unknown date, there is a studio audience
watching and voting on whether he gets a "good prank" or "bad prank" with hidden cameras
tracking him and Chris's friends and family luring him to certain areas where pranks can
happen.
The pranks start out silly: good: he's the lucky customer at a shop, bad: he's accused
of shoplifting.The pranks slowly get more and more extreme and the audience are voting
the bad pranks all the time, laughing as Chris's life is slowly falling apart in one day.
It ends with Chris being let out of a police car near his house and the audience have voted
for a scary black van to pull up and kidnap Chris.
As the van pulls up, Chris runs away and the men chase him down, but when he turns the
corner a carcomes a knocks Chris down.
The studio goes quiet, the lights go on and Derren says nothing letting the audience take
in what happened, giving them nothing..
After a while, Derren explains that this was all set up and Chris was in on the whole thing
and the audience were the ones being tested explaining how being part of a crowd can make
someone lose their morality, they were just cheering a man having his life ruined and
being kidnapped fee ering for his life.
I was at a Russel Peters stand up show in a large theater.
He starts some banter with the guy in the first row who had a huge tattoo on his arm
saying "Skyler" (or similar name).He asks all about Skyler, it's the guys daughter.
He starts making jokes about daughters, some sixual innuendos etcetera and then asks how
old Skyler is.The guy in the audience goes, she passed away....It was pure crickets after
that.
I was brought to corrida once and the matador got his leg impaled by the bull while he was
trying to get over a fence.The crowd started screaming and booing the bull like it was
a foul move I was like laugh my ats off the dude ducking stabbed it what was it supposed
to do, recite poetry ?
Challenger launch
Election night 2016
Went to see the Pokemon movie with my fellow group home residents as a treat.
There were maybe 70 of us there, most had never been to a movie theater before so it
was a pretty big deal.
The house even splurged to get everyone a small soda, candy, and a portion of popcorn,
this was literally the best day of most of our lives so far.We get settled in, taking
up most of the theater, when the credits started and the lights dimmed.
We were so excited!!
POKEMON.
THE.
MOVIE. was about to freaking start.Opening ads start, we're silent the whole time in
anticipation.
Then the credits never ended, we thought, because thisone "ad" seemed to go on forever.
Some kind of a spoof of an alien movie?
Maybe a play on star trek???Credits rolled.
Lights turned on.
Nobody spoke.
Every single face was deflated and so, so freaking disappointed.
Someone screwed up and played "Galaxy Quest" instead of the (brand new at the time) Pokemon
movie.Nobody talked the whole way back to the house, but as soon as we got there so
many kids lost it.
I didn't end up seeing it until like 10 years later, and it blew mind haha
I was at a Bo Burnham show he was recording for hit Netflix special but unfortunately
this part didn't make the cut.
He was cracking jokes as usual then asked everyone in the audience to crack their knuckles
on the count of 3.
It was the most horrifying evil sound any of us had ever heard.
Harley-Davidson 100th Anniversary party.For months they said the headliner of the big
weekend-long party was a “mystery guest.”
Everyone assumed it would be someone who appeals to the Harley crowd like The Rolling Stones
or Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, right?
So the show starts, opening act is the Doobie Brothers and the crowd loved it.
Next is Tim McGraw and the crowd loved it.
Next was Kid Rock and he just rocks and the crowd loves it.Then it’s time for the “Mystery
Guest.”
It’s Elton ducking John.
The crowd just poured out of the park.
Plenty stayed and enjoyed the show, but tens of thousands of people said duck this and
left.Link to story.
Probably the Las Vegas shooting
Was working as a backstagemanager in a medium sized concertvenue.
We had quite a famous band with a crazy singer that used weird props.
On their rider (a list bands give to venues with their wishes) they demanded we arranged
two buckets of pig blood.
Of course we did not do this.Show was going well, people were having a good time.
Until the singer took out a steak knife he stole from our restaurant and started slicing
his arms open.
He was really making deep cuts and it was horrifying to watch.
Blood was everywhere.
Most people in the audience were shocked, some were dry heaving.
When the show was over the singer was dripping blood all over the backstage area, smearing
it on the walls.
I was fairly young and scheduled to workalone that night, so I was way in over my head.
I tried to reason with him, but at that point he was very intoxicated and there was no point
talking to him.
Our backstage area looked like someone was murdered there.
When I tried talking to their stagemanager he shut me up very quickly, he was probably
sick of dealing with venuestaff complaining about the singer.
He did this sheet all the time, the band was notorious regarding these kinds of crazy acts.I
had to put up with a lot of sheet working as a backstagemanager.
Bands wrecking the backstagerooms, making a mess everywhere, being sixist, being too
ducked up to stand on their feet, you name it.
But covering the whole stage and backstage with their blood?
That was a first.
We had to repaint the whole area because there is no point trying to clean the bloodsmears.
Fairly shortly after I changed careers because I could not deal with that anymore.
When Bilbo Baggins disappeared at the end of the speech he gave at his 111th birthday
party.
May 4th 2010.
Its "Dodenherdenking" in the Netherlands, where we remember all deaths of people that
died through or because of war or peaceful operations.
It was called to life after WWII.At 8 o clock (I think), we have a 2 minute silence for
rememberance.
One person however thought it was "fun" to scream "bomb" (ir something alike), rendering
all the people there terrified and running against the barricades in a hurry to get away.
The King and Queen got escorted away as soon as this happened.Here is a video about the
event: https://youtu.be/idsGSUWkgeIWas working as a backstagemanager in a medium sized concertvenue.
We had quite a famous band with a crazy singer that used weird props.
On their rider (a list bands give to venues with their wishes) they demanded we arranged
two buckets of pig blood.
Of course we did not do this.Show was going well, people were having a good time.
Until the singer took out a steak knife he stole from our restaurant and started slicing
his arms open.
He was really making deep cuts and it was horrifying to watch.
Blood was everywhere.
Most people in the audience were shocked, some were dry heaving.
When the show was over the singer was dripping blood all over the backstage area, smearing
it on the walls.
I was fairly young and scheduled to work