In 2019, I got swept up in a crowd stampede during Lil Wayne’s Lil WeezyAna Fest on the grounds of the UNO Lakefront Arena. Multiple fans suffered gashes and bruises in the chaos . At least two left via ambulance.
I was unscathed.
Many years ago, I was packed in tight among drunken sailors and bikers at a general admission Judas Priest concert at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi. The mass of bodies swayed back and forth; people toppled over onto the slick concrete floor and shattered whiskey bottles.
Again, I was unscathed.
Caught in a crowd crush at the gates of a Guns N Roses melee at a racetrack in Alabama?
Sucked into a mosh pit as alt-rock band Pierce the Veil whipped a full Fillmore into a frenzy ?
No problem.
On Friday night, I brought two of my kids and a friend