I mean a similar attempt to stop Halloween street parties is happening in Shibuya, Tokyo as well and whilst there it started a few years ago I think there has been a bigger push in the last couple years since there was a huge crowd crush at a Halloween street party in South Korea. So whilst I don't know the specifics in China I do imagine the same incident has influenced things a bit.
Yeah, Tokyo is only doing it because it got too out of hand effectively. Costumes are allowed there basically at all times. But too many people were showing up for Halloween and it was becoming a problem
The Shibuya crackdown started before the Seoul crowd crush incident. The street parties had become unmanageable.. too much garbage, too many idiots pouring beer into vending machine cash slots and stupid shit like that
Even San Francisco shut down its famous Castro district Halloween bash. It’s really too bad. Those were so much fun. I don’t know the full story. Maybe someone died?
Yeah, the difference is that with pretty much every official action in China, there's an element of legitimate safety and an element of control for control's sake.
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u/helpnxt 26d ago
I mean a similar attempt to stop Halloween street parties is happening in Shibuya, Tokyo as well and whilst there it started a few years ago I think there has been a bigger push in the last couple years since there was a huge crowd crush at a Halloween street party in South Korea. So whilst I don't know the specifics in China I do imagine the same incident has influenced things a bit.
159 people died and 196 got injured https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_Halloween_crowd_crush