saucissedanseuse

I am fascinated.
Right now in Rome there are four million pilgrims, there to wave a last goodbye to the Pope. FOUR MILLIONS.
Rome's population is estimated at being 2.655.000 units. The city is built more or less to accommodate them all. Add to those 2+ millions people, another four million pilgrims and the place is ready to explode!

So i am fascinated by the fact that the city is reacting so well, that they took all the right decisions to simply stop any vehicle from going in the city, to close down public offices tomorrow... the citizens are simply not able to move inside the city! The organization behind this is a bit rushed but it's working well.

I thank god that i don't live in the area, or my ambulance team would surely have been called to give a hand. can you imagine working there, with four million people queuing up for thirty hours (yes, thirty hurs on your feet!) just to glance at the pope for 5/6 seconds?

i read that yesterday the emergency services got 600 calls between 8am and 4pm. six hundred!!!!! *faints*

this is the biggest mass-event in recent history. and by recent history i mean, like, in the last 1000 years or so, i suppose.
look:
gandhi's funerals drew 1 million
jfk 800.000
only ayatollah komeini managed to draw 3 million muslims for his funeral.

this event is massive. and i am fascinated. here are some photos for your bewilderment.
(pics courtesy of repubblica.it magazine - i am still safely and happily in the milan area, some 800 kilometres away from rome, and no, the queue of pilgrims has not reaches us YET! lol)


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can you imagine running an ambulance in there? i guess the colleagues down in rome are doing an excellent job.


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(this is the pope's body in there! people can only stand there for 4-5 seconds)


and this is what an intelligent man should do after 20 hours of queuing up to see the pope: waste his 5 seconds having a pic taken. stick your souvenir up the ass, idiot!!!!

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ps: and yeah, as i was kinda wishing, he did manage to ruin charles and camilla's wedding, it's been postponed by one day, and basically no one will attend! LOL

ps2: the funerals are tomorrow, with 150 between prime ministers, presidents, kings and the such. if anything bad happens, i guess it's the right time that god+goddess+buddah+allah come down to earth and kick some ass of any culprit! fingers crossed all goes well!