A couple of weeks back (mid May '09) I went to G Star with a local friend. They were holding a sexy swim suit show with a troupe of professional male Thai models.
The show was scheduled to start at midnight, but at 0200 there was yet another announcement of 'start in 10 minutes'.
In fact I should have had the common sense to have left much earlier. The place is a serious fire trap even with a medium crowd, but on that evening it was packed like sardines in a can and impossible to move even a little bit at the 'table' we were using. Replacement drinks were being passed from customer to customer to eventually arrive at the final table, because the waiters could not enter the packed crowd.
Earlier in the evening there was an in-house show, would you believe with Hawaiian garden lanterns on poles with kerosine or similar and real flames. The acrid smoke was causing many people to cough, and the flames were about 20 cm away from some overhead curtains. People in the crowds kept telling the ladyboy dancer to move the lantern away from the curtains, but he didn't get it.
It took us about 15 minutes to slowly edge our way through the crowd to an exit door.
Obviously there was no control on the total numbers of people inside the venue.
If there was a fire or an incident then many people would have died.
Nobody ever learns. l will certainly never go back.
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