There is no difference whether it is in a temple, in a riot, in a theater fire, or in a job fair.
Actually yes there is a difference. A theater fire is a much more plausible scenario for someone getting trampled over say, a ten dollar chinese built DVD player.
When a mass is trying to run into a tight bottleneck and someone fell, it is impossible for a couple individual at the choke point/bottleneck to stop and he/she cannot see that someone fell and stop until it is too late.
And I ask yet again, WHY ON EARTH would you knowingly continue on through a broken down barricade? If you were part of that crowd, don't you think that you would have had the decency to separate yourself from the herd as soon as you saw signs that the mass of people around you were getting ready to bust through the front door of a freaking WAL-MART?!?!? Bottom line, you shouldn't have been in the bottleneck to begin with.
Have you ever been to a very crowded place?
Nope. I've never set foot out of my mother's basement. I'm now 66 years old and have never been to a public place. Do more than five people congregate at one time outside of their homes?
Not everywhere is rural like where you live.
Obviously you don't know where I live nor have you ever been here. It is not rural where I live in the least. On top of that, please tell me all the major US cities I've lived in in the past twenty years. Don't even bother naming the international cities I've resided in throughout my life. If you're suggesting that because NC is not NY then no one lives here or we don't have urban cities or crowds? Heck, we've even gots cable tee-vee and intro-nets now!