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Old Jun 16th, 2014, 04:53 AM
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Welcome America Festival (Philadelphia) Public Stampedes

Please be aware that The City of Philadelphia and Wawa are covering up public stampedes that have taken place at their 2011, 2012 and 2013 festivals. Thousands of people were involved and hundreds were hurt.
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Old Jun 16th, 2014, 05:24 AM
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Can you give specifics of when and where and many people were hurt?
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Old Jun 16th, 2014, 05:37 AM
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welcome to Fodors . . . I guess
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Old Jun 16th, 2014, 06:43 AM
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I was a vendor at the 2013 festival. I thought it was a isolated event but last week I found out it happened in 2011 & 2012. I'm not sure if you can post websites on this site but I have a facebook page with the different video accounts of what happened from youtube. If you put in philly stampede a bunch a videos will be displayed. I don't know how many people were hurt but I saw multiple children that were bloody.
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Also since this has happened multiple years the injuries have to be in the hundreds.
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This? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-le...b_3563128.html
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This story is on my facebook page along with the different youtube videos. Since these stampedes have happen consecutively I believe its going to happen at future festivals as well. I'm posting here because there are a lot of visitors from all over the world who might not be aware of what has happened previously.
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Thank you. I too have seen the international clamor regarding the Welcome America Festival.
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