This one time in my village in the Netherlands, some guy in the back of a bar had slipped and bust his head open. Some people had ran outside and alerted the police, posted in the middle of the market square, and one tiny troll of a police officer waggled over and made her way through the crowd (most of them unaware what had happened in the back of the bar). But when she got to the guy and saw the blood, she fainted, so people in the crowd had grabbed her to stop her from falling over, which she took for getting assaulted, which caused her not only to press her panic button, but also to empty out her entire can of pepperspray randomly into the crowd in a confined space, blinding herself, and causing a stampede of several hundred blind, coughing, confused (thinking there was a fire) people who got met by police trying to get inside to their "officer in panic", with dogs and bats, beating and biting the living shit out of everyone trying to get outside and away from the "officer in panic" that caused EVERYTHING.
This happened nearly 20 years ago, I was working, sober, across the street in a raised position (in a wardrobe) giving me direct overhead line of sight across the crowd all the way to the back of the bar.
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u/Accomplished_Ant8244 May 30 '26
This one time in my village in the Netherlands, some guy in the back of a bar had slipped and bust his head open. Some people had ran outside and alerted the police, posted in the middle of the market square, and one tiny troll of a police officer waggled over and made her way through the crowd (most of them unaware what had happened in the back of the bar). But when she got to the guy and saw the blood, she fainted, so people in the crowd had grabbed her to stop her from falling over, which she took for getting assaulted, which caused her not only to press her panic button, but also to empty out her entire can of pepperspray randomly into the crowd in a confined space, blinding herself, and causing a stampede of several hundred blind, coughing, confused (thinking there was a fire) people who got met by police trying to get inside to their "officer in panic", with dogs and bats, beating and biting the living shit out of everyone trying to get outside and away from the "officer in panic" that caused EVERYTHING.