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Watch crowd stampede on Chinese subway after one man faints sparking mass panic
The phenomenon has been going on for months as commuters fear being left behind after a spate of attacks on the metro

If you want to see the effect of mob mentality, watch this video.

A man in a green shirt sitting on a metro train suddenly collapses and within seconds the carriage empties.

Not one person goes to his aid.

Not only that, but at the next station people start running from the train and their actions start off a stampede.

Many of the commuters appear to have no idea why they are running but they fear something is terribly wrong.

Yet the whole terrifying episode is sparked off by one man who has simply fainted.

Later in the video you can see him recovering with the help of subway staff.

The video was taken in the world's largest city, Shanghai in China with a population of more than 24 million.

It isn't the first time subway riders have shown a tendency to run from anything out of the ordinary.

In February, a female passenger’s cell phone on a Line 8 train started to emit smoke, someone shouted 'FIRE!" and within seconds people were falling over each other in a desperate effort to get out, dropping their belongings in the process.

Locals blame the edginess on a spate of public attacks by knife-wielding assailants on locations including public train stations

Extra security checks have been brought in but people remain nervous and the least thing can set them off. When one goes, they all go.

Other subway panics have occurred in Guangzhou and Beijing.

In June, six passengers were injured when a passenger who had fallen ill and fainted caused panicked passengers to flood out of a Line 3 train at Meihuayuan Station in Guangzhou around lunchtime.

That same month, a fight broke out between a couple of commuters causing other passengers to flee Beijing’s Guomao station, a busy transfer point for Line 1 and Line 10. The crush was such that many people fell to the ground in the panic.

In response, the Chinese news agency Xinhua wrote an article calling for a management system so "people don’t just blindly follow each other".
Wang Zhongwu, a sociology professor at Shandong University told Xinhua: "To flee in an emergency is due to lack of necessary security knowledge. People often follow others in emergencies.

Some people need stabbed.

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As time goes by I have less and less *** to give about the possibility of the human race wiping itself out.

Maybe it's time we give the lizard men catgirls a shot at running the world.

fixed for better dreaming.

Sorry. I'm convinced it will be lizard men.

Coincidentally, if you're really into catgirls, the Furries have their big annual convention in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh actually loves them, because as odd as their "thing" may be, they're generally a very friendly crowd and they spend liberally at local establishments.

Not really into catgirls, and I probably would never go to a furry convention either lol.

Those things kindof gross me out.

Eh. To each their own. I wouldn't mind going and interacting with the people a little, as I said, they tend to be quite friendly, and I'd be interested from a human interest aspect, but their particular interest isn't mine.

That and there's no way in hell you'd get me into a fur suit in the middle of July in the downtown 'burgh.