Not paranoid just anti-social, but who isnt that is aware.

I don't think its an infestation as much as government and trial lawyers interfering with Darwinism. One of my pet peeves, if you look on the side of an aluminum ladder there is a warning sticker that says not to lean it against high voltage lines!!! If your dumb enough to do this do we really need to save you from yourself so you can reproduce more idiots? In earlier times people that were dumb enough to do this died, and the people around them learned a lesson if they didn't have common sense to start with. Now a lawyer will tell you its someone else's fault, they should have planned around your stupidity, and you should get paid for being a moron.-ie. the caution coffee is hot on the side of McDonald's cups. Thanks McDonalds, wouldn't have imagined coffee being hot!!!

no you're not paranoid. its really good practice to try and stay away from large, congested crowds. i know from personal experience one halloween. i was walking through a crowd when, in a matter of minutes, it became so crowded and congested to the point the air was literally squeezed out of your lungs and you were at the complete mercy of the wild back and forth sway of the crowd. everyone was trying to move through but no one could. the force against my body was enormous. luckily i was only stuck for about 5 minutes and managed to finally make it out of the crowd. but it was really scary. i can now understand how easily it would be for people to be trampled to death. since then i never try to walk through packed crowds of people.

Google "E2 Nightclub." A beautiful example here in the Windy City.


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The Tree of Life is self-pruning, but government and attorneys keep trying to prop up the parts that Nature says should be discarded. <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Sue

Similar experience at a Who concert in 73, a number of years before actual loss of life.
Philadelphia Spectrum, outward opening doors and festival seating. Guards yelling "get back!' as they tried to open the doors outward, back into the crowd. Picked right up off my feet and moved 10 feet. DO NOT fall down in a crowd like this.

A few weeks ago I was the one that my work called upon to get people home from work when the blizzard struck Colorado and Wyoming. The comment was (as I was walking away after the fact) "well who else were we going to ask... he was the only one that was prepared for this... " I received a few thanks and a few sideways looks and was even called a modern day Grizzley Adams. When all was said and done, the sheepdog made sure that all the sheep got home to their families.

As far as being in a large crowd of people, forget it. It makes me crazy! I have issues with going to Walmart on a Saturday. Paranoid? Maybe... Crazy? Not likely... Enjoying a life free of the stampeding masses? Definitely!

You made my day Sue! That thought could not have been stated better. Thanks again.