I attended EDC and first of all, the fact that these people made the idiotic decision to try and hop the fence thus leading to a mass rush and eventual mob does not automatically make the entire event and all of the attendee’s evil. I am very annoyed at the media’s way of portraying the rush (which was eventually controlled) and of their portrayal of the 15 year old girl’s death. I send my condolences to her broken-hearted family, but honestly, all of these people (despite their age) made the conscious decision to attend this festival. Yes there was a huge probability there would be drugs, and yes it would be very crowded. The people that made the stupid risky decision to jump the fence, jump on top of the vendor tents, and to disregard and actually fight the security workers are at fault for what happened. The girl who died from a drug overdose made the conscious decision to consume those drugs. Also, this event was 16+ (a decision i personally disagree with; it should be 18+), why was a 15 year old out all day up to 2 am? why were her parents ok with her attending this?The city calling for the events to end, and placing blame on Insomniac events for the 120 hospitalization of the weekend is absolutely ridiculous and uncalled for. 120 out of 185,000? are you kidding me?? that is 0.065%. Huge events with a large amount of people, and alcohol, and of course drugs will always statistically lead to some injured. that small of a percentage of hospitalization at such a monstrous event is not that monumental to shut donw all dance festival such as EDC. I attended EDC, I made safe choices, and I had an AMAZING, BEAUTIFUL time. I love the music and the atmosphere these events create. I was among people who actually got to the coliseum early in anticipation of making it on the floor. The event, its music and the PLUR culture can be so good. It breaks my heart to hear about stupid people such as the fence jumpers, and young women such as Sasha who are too young to be attending such events and partaking in the consumption of drugs. I will be very sad to hear if LA makes the decision to no longer host such great experiences for the majority of people that actually do go to EDC and make responsible, planned decision, because of the minority such as the likes of these that dont follow the culture, and ruin the beauty of it for the rest of us.

Thats why you don’t make thousands of people enter or exit through a 5 foot wide opening. I hope that one guy didn’t die.

Classic losers in the sun. Seriously, if only the cops had stun guns and knew how to use them! What a bunch of disgusting creatures. Especially the pussy who pushed the cop from behind and then bolted.

Wtf is wrong with security guards? Those people obviously needed help, yet they wasted about 3 men trying to get their own guy out instead of a screaming woman. Then they wouldnt let people help?

Not to be sexist or anything….but apparently women can’t hop fences for shit…

you have to be a special kind of evil to want to make money from thousands of half-naked kids trippin to bad music. and to unleash this kind of thing upon us.

rave or not, rules are rules. if you do something stupid that you’re not supposed to do, there are going to be consequences.

New fetish alert: Girls in their underwear hopping fences.

Poors always ruin everything.

*crowd
im really sleep

one reason to not follow the croud

this is a little scary

This video, combined with the fact that there are a lot of people here blaming it on security and on the fences, is why massive crowds scare the crap out of me.

The stadium was split into general admission and vip (about a $65 differential). The fences kept the lower price ticket holders in the stadium seating area, not on the floor. There is no room to dance up there so no wonder people got fed up and stormed the field. I think there are some elements of this that speak to the general discontent many people feel these days as well. It felt right to say fuck it, I’m not going to be ripped off, contained, or told what to do. It was an expression of angst.

a few canisters of nerve gas in that stadium and the worlds a better place

Shizzz. Not exactly PLUR….

Why is there fencing and baracades everywhere anyway? No wonder why that happened! Good Idea erect fences everywhere in the middle of a massive rave.

if this is what concerts are like i’m never going to one..

That was really disturbing