Like Brett and Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords in this clip, a nightclub can be a merry time.When you are sipping your vodka and coke or getting jiggy with it on the dancefloor you would not think of graveyards, yet every year hundreds of people in nightclubs all over the world die. If you are unlucky it can be a real war zone and not just from binging and puking your guts or assholes starting fights.
A few causes of Nightclub tragedies:
This is Chloe Leach, a third-year social work student, she drank four cans of Red Bull and wine before hitting a club. Later on that night she collapsed on the dance-floor. RIP Chloe.
A celebrity death here is a detailed account of River Phoenix's death at a night club:
A few minutes before 1 AM (Halloween morning), River had been in the bathroom of The Viper Room, a club owned by Johnny Depp at 8852 Sunset Boulevard, doing drugs with some drug dealer friends and someone offered him a snort of high-grade Persian Brown. He was told it would make him feel fabulous. As soon as he snorted it he started trembling and shaking in front of the sink, screamed at his friend and then vomited. Someone tried to help by splashing cold water on his face and then gave him a Valium. (Nothing helps someone O.D.ing than to give them more drugs.) He staggered back into the bar and over to actress Samantha Mathis and his sister Rain. He complained he could not breathe and briefly passed out. When he came to, he asked Mathis to take him outside. Mathis first called River's friend and assistant Abby, then Mathis and River's brother Joaquin took him outside. River then collapsed on the sidewalk. After that he started going into seizures and had three before a photographer, Ron Davis, went to call 911 at the nearby payphone, and so did Joaquin. "He looked like a fish out of water," said Ron Davis, who was standing outside the club. He was "thrashing spasmodically, his head flopping from side to side, arms flailing wildly." Rain had since come out and thrown herself on River to attempt to stop the seizures. It seems after 8 minutes of seizures they stopped and River was still, at which point Joaquin said he was not breathing. At 1:14 a.m. he was in cardiac arrest when paramedics arrived and Paramedic Ray Ribar of the LA County Fire Department began to administer CPR. They rushed him to Cedars Sinai Medical Center where they arrived at 1:34 am. When they got there, his skin was dark blue, but his body was still warm. The ER physicians did everything to revive him, even inserting a pacemaker. He was pronounced dead at 1:51 am.
This is real footage of someone inside a nightclub in Perm, Russia where it went up in flames after an indoors fireworks display, resulting in the death of 106 people. The fireworks display caused the ceiling to ignite. "It all happened because of pyrotechnics," one club-goer, Andrei, told the Ekho Moskvy radio station. "There was a fireworks display of "rain" in the form of sparks that leapt one and a half metres into the air. A spark obviously hit the ceiling, which is completely made of woven brushwood. It ignited. The electricity went off instantly, the place began to fill up with smoke, the lights went out, and people started to rush for the exit."
Here is a horrific image from outside a Bangkok nightclub. Once again fire was the killer.
10 people were killed in a nightclub in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. Acapulco a getaway for Hollywood celebrities is becoming less and less popular with massacres such as this.
None of these people will ever get to dance again. Amen.
