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When partying goes very wrong
Bloc leaving attendees to party in shipping containers after disastrous organisation in 2012
Blocs festival’s graduation from Butlins holiday park to London’s unfortunately named Pleasure Gardens is one the worst dance festival disasters in recent memory. Crowds of thousands were squashed into unmoving queues outside the event, with the Met Police pulling the plug on the event at around 1am, while most ticket buyers had failed to gain entry. Reports from the queues were harrowing: people saying they feared for their lives within intense crushes. Others decided to get their thrills by jumping naked from an old warship into the adjacent canal. Or by mimicking techno beats by pounding on shipping containers, as you can see in the footage above. Full marks for inventiveness.
