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@augustus stop saying the n-word
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did u know that there was a stampede during soleiman's funeral about twelve hours ago with 40 killed, 213 wounded
that's p crazy.
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@augustus does this count as collateral damage on the US's part
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@triodug @augustus if i were trapped in a mass stampede i would simply jump and place two blocks above me
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@augustus
not my comment
>When the original Ayatollah passed his coffin was being passed through the crowd and his body fell out of the casket!! In the fervor of the moment many people tried to get some piece of his clothing. It was madness:
>The crowd, much of it made up of Revolutionary Guards detailed to maintain order, pulled the coffin from the helicopter and began parading it around the makeshift compound surrounding the gravesite. As the excitement grew, the body of the Ayatollah, wrapped in a white burial shroud, fell out of the flimsy wooden coffin, and in a mad scene people in the crowd reached to touch the shroud. The soldiers pushed and wrestled, finally firing warning shots, to get the body back. Ayatollah Khomeini's son, Ahmad, was knocked from his feet. But even as the soldiers pushed the body back into the helicopter, the crowd swarmed over the craft, dragging it back down as it tried to take off. Others jumped into the hole dug for the Ayatollah's body. The troops drove the crowd back, finally clearing the compound enough to allow the helicopter to take off, its rotors scattering more mourners.
>They tried an unannounced funeral a few days later and that also went crazy but not near as bad as the first. Hearing about the stampede deaths doesn’t surprise me. Those people do grief on a whole different level.
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@augustus bruh it's so much worse during public executions cuz everyone crowds around to take a souvenir.