After Reading "Three die in Saudi shop stampede"

This article on this website is discussing the fact that a branch of IKEA claimed a limited number of credit vouchers were offered to the public in Saudi Arabia. More than 8000 people stood in a queue all night for these vouchers, but a lot of people wouldn’t be able to obtain these vouchers. Because of this reason, this incident caused three people to be crushed to death and sixteen people injured.

The power of crowd usually causes people to lose their mind and become very crazy. No matter what the event is, if that’s human’s desire, they would always be crazy for it. Also, no matter where it takes place, people’s behavior is all the same. People can see this kind of news happening around the world all the time. They’d better to keep the lesson. However, I think sometimes, people are greedy; they always ignore the lesson unconsciously and they always forget to prevent themselves from being injured. That’s why such kind of accidents happen again and again. In addition, after reading Le Bon’s theory, I think that is very interesting. It says that the large number of people in a crowd allows our primitive, “animal” side to come out. I agree with this theory, because when some people are in a crowd, they feel they are hidden in a group. They can turn of their masks off civilized behavior and do some irrational things. So, I think when people lose their mind in a crowd, it is very dangerous.