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When I learned of the stampede at Ultra, the first thought that popped into my mind was: they all deserved to die for their indolence and reliance on get rich-quick schemes. I forgot about the whole thing until I heard of the story about the 4-year old girl was crushed under the heels of greedy adults hoping to get the winning ticket out of poverty.

Apparently, a random guy placed the girl on the roof so that she wouldn’t be crushed by the crowd. She would have been safe if she didn’t see her mother get slowly dragged down underneath five bodies (her mother survived to tell the tale). The girl jumped off the roof and tried to make her way through the crowd to reach her mother. According to her mom, she could hear her daughter screaming at people to get out of her way, that her mother was getting crushed, and that she needed to save her. At one point, mother and daughter managed to hold hands, but the rush of the zealous crowd dragged the little girl off to her death.

Later on, a survivor of the stampede picked up the little girl’s abandoned, lifeless body from the ground. He said he could see heel marks on her arms from where people stepped on her. When the ambulances arrived, he tried to get the medics to give her CPR, but the medics were too disgusted by the dirt on her body and refused. The survivor ended up giving her CPR during the entire ambulance ride to the hospital.

According to the autopsy, every bone in the little girl’s body was crushed–her arms, legs, spinal column, neck.

I’m one who doesn’t have much love for children but man. Hearing that was really depressing.

On the flipside, an article on the suicide of a 30-year old woman had me cracking up the day after the stampede. It says there that the woman was being persuaded to assume the top post of their organization. As they were talking, she suddenly broke the glass woman and jumped from the 15th floor.

Maybe it’s just my sick sense of humor, but I couldn’t get over the image of a plump, middle-aged woman dressed in a cheap business suit crashing through a glass window. It’s just too fucking hilarious for words.

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