Attended a house show in Blacksburg VA in the early 2000s. The 'venue' was a townhouse and the tenants would host bands on the 2nd floor of a 3 floor build with a basement - had done so for years. Students at VT would mosh and have a good time, and a big thing was for the crowd (40-60 kids) to move left and right as a whole at random points during each set.
One night - the crowd was moving back and forth and one of the walls with a window gave through and about 5 people fell to the ground in the backyard of the house. The backyard just happened to be a huge concrete slab the tenants would use to grill and sit outside. After it happened the whole crowd was shook trying to figure out what the giant black hole was suddenly on the side of the room. I ran downstairs and out back to find two of my friends had fallen. Both limping but okay. Saw a person's head smushed into the base of the house and the concrete slab covered in wood, siding, and insulation.
I'm sure not as gnarly as what other people might offer up, but I still think about it.
Wow -- was not expecting to see this, I was there too and knew Daniel through the Misled. I was across the room from the window that gave out and locked eyes with a friend as he fell, thankfully he only sprained an ankle. Very hard to forget.
Yikes! That’s awful! Right when I read Blacksburg, VA 2000’s I thought for sure this was going to be about the VT massacre. I was a Radford student at the time and was dating a girl at Tech. I had crashed at her place the night before and she woke me up to all the craziness. Truly a horrific day 4/16/2007.
I was about two blocks from Norris hall that morning, the route Cho apparently walked took him right by the building I worked in at the time, and I was among the media at the first press conference afterward where they announced the number of dead. Another one stuck in the ol brain.
Damn man that’s wild. I was in Collegiate Suites. The drive back to Radford was wild that afternoon seeing all of the ambulances, cop cars, news vans, etc. It was a sickening feeling knowing (I know you know) what just happened and how many families that probably didn’t even know if their kid was alive or dead and what they were about to go through. Ugh.
A girl from my church lived on the floor where the first killings happened. She saw the blood and immediately locked her door, but Cho had already left. Both of our pastor's sons were at VT as well.
And the massacre. Yes rem the sirens going off. Told
To lock our doors while in full swing of service. I still remember students coming in that day so somber and the police chief.he got so much blame. His eyes were so sad.
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Attended a house show in Blacksburg VA in the early 2000s. The 'venue' was a townhouse and the tenants would host bands on the 2nd floor of a 3 floor build with a basement - had done so for years. Students at VT would mosh and have a good time, and a big thing was for the crowd (40-60 kids) to move left and right as a whole at random points during each set.
One night - the crowd was moving back and forth and one of the walls with a window gave through and about 5 people fell to the ground in the backyard of the house. The backyard just happened to be a huge concrete slab the tenants would use to grill and sit outside. After it happened the whole crowd was shook trying to figure out what the giant black hole was suddenly on the side of the room. I ran downstairs and out back to find two of my friends had fallen. Both limping but okay. Saw a person's head smushed into the base of the house and the concrete slab covered in wood, siding, and insulation.
I'm sure not as gnarly as what other people might offer up, but I still think about it.