Why do people follow the crowd?

phkao · Post by **phkao** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:00 pm

I found this interesting article on the web and thought that I would share it with others.

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Health/ ... 0GVyhyGnMH

OP · Post by OP » Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:19 pm

Busto · Post by **Busto** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:45 pm

You should have been here during "Brown Sunday", there were a lot of scared pilots.

I was in my house and it got dark so fast. I went outside and it was a picture that looked bad. You didn't need to be a pilot to know that things were ugly. Pilots were either running away from the LZ or trying to get down as fast as possible. I saw a few gliders out of control falling like leaves out of the sky. I was scared for every pilot that chose to tuff-it out and make a break for the LZ.

One glider stands out, I might be wrong, but I believe it was katherine. She was fluttering down like a leaf and came down near the dam. All I could do was stand out there and watch with my jaw dropped.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:50 pm

Yeah? Well, wait until you see this sucker building overhead after you've launched!
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... g&dur=6969

M@rkus · Post by **M@rkus** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:30 am

Dateline did a show on this subject...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36787261/ns ... 0KeGpghEqY

Busto · Post by **Busto** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:54 pm

Nice Markus,

I've seen this and it always amazes me.

OP · Post by OP » Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:54 pm

We should do a social study of people launching gliders in unsafe conditions.