cram as many people in mini" dangers

[tali1]

see lots of "cram as many people in mini" world records, however, although it looks wacky and fun isn;t this extremly dangerous , especially for those who enter car first? with high risk of crush and suffocation?- how do they breath when they are crushed together in such a tight space?

[trevHCS]

Never tried it, but I'd imagine there's a heck of a lot of practice goes on to work out the most efficient way to do this. Trouble is, the human body is still not that efficient at getting into small spaces especially when bent as it has to be in these cases so there's a lot of free air space.

Crushing them isnt too much of a problem simply because you've usually got 1 person at a time pushing. If there's physically not enough space, it's very unlikely that person will be able to create enough force to crush several other people which would be required to crush those in the middle. Also the way they have to bend means that the forces are distributed throughout bending bodies. If they were laying flat it would be a lot more dangerous.

Crush injuries are much worse when everyone is aligned the same way, eg: standing up. That has been shown many times such as the Hillsborough Disaster where 100's of people were pushing from behind and all the people were standing up (equiv. of laying down).

[markja]

deciding who drives is the hardest bit!!

[Panic Button]

How do you get 4 elephants in a mini?

[Panic Button]

Two in the front, two in the back.




How do you get 4 giraffes into a mini?

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I'm being silly.

You can't possibly get 4 giraffes in.

There are 4 elephants in there already.