re: #208 Killgore Trout

Whatever, I’m just guessing. Looks like a crowd that could fit is a small stadium. It’s not really important. What’s certain is that the crowd was nowhere near a million. Estimates close to 2 million are just laughable.

Another data point: 0bama’s inauguration drew a crowd estimated at 1.5 to 1.8 million. It brought DC to it’s knees, with police and the NPS completely overtaxed, a complete lack of accommodations for miles around the city, massive, impenetrable gridlock and a swamping of emergency services both on the streets and at hospitals. This followed weeks of detailed planning - the crowd was simply too damn big to deal with.

Anyone claiming estimates even remotely near such figures has to explain how no one in DC seems to have noticed the chaos and mayhem that many people bring to town.