Sentences with phrase «crowd stampeded»

Unfortunately, when the phones sold out, the crowd stampeded, injuring several people.

As the crowd stampeded, tents were flattened and small children mown down.

The crowd stampeded away from the palace.

Last July, Daniel Jarvis, Endrit Ferizolli, Ebenezer Menzah and Helder Gomes were behind a fake robbery at the National Portrait Gallery that saw crowds stampeding towards the exits and left one woman unconscious.

Not exact matches

The thought in the back of my mind is always «Please don't let this elephant decide to go mad and stampede the crowd.»

If they had shouted «fire» in a crowded elevator and people had been stampeded to death, they would have had to face consequences.

So I can go into a crowded theater and yell fire, and then say I never intended to start a stampede for the door?

Police say false reports of gunshots being fired at Coney Island's amusement park set off a stampede, with screaming crowds racing in all directions.

After panicked stories in the press, people stampeded vaccine clinics, which had to open extra rooms to contain the crowds.

Potential victims would do anything to avoid the pain, which in crowded situations could lead to injury in others fighting to get away, or even a stampede.

By studying flows in systems like sand and sheep, scientists hope to find strategies for designing buildings to prevent dangerous human crowd situations, like stampedes.

I have an article running in The Times describing the latest analysis of recent stampeding episodes of walruses crowded onshore in the absence of ice.

The alarmist settled science crowd didn't try to stampede the public into taking the vow of energy poverty over smears and echoes, howie.

Falsely claiming there was a fire in a crowded room would be punishable license because it could cause a panicked stampede resulting in injury.

In some parts of the world, Christmas starts in November on that magical day when crowds of people trample and stampede their fellow humans to get their hands on cheap crap that will almost certainly be doing time at a landfill in a number of years.

-- John Seabrook — The behaviour of crowds has been a subject of inquiry for well over a hundred years now, and still we read of people killed in stampedes of human animals.

«Big and famous temples that attract larger crowds, especially during the festivals, are the ones that are susceptible to stampede.

I've skipped tour vans in Bali in favor of a private driver and opted for smaller, more intimate restaurant venues instead of the louder, crowded ones when I felt the need to take a break from the typical tourist stampede.