Stampede in Manila

A few days ago a raffle was hosted by a well known filippino TV show. They were giving away prizes, big prizes on a first come first serve basis. Some of the prizes were whole houses with land, 3 taxi cabs, a couple tricycles, needless to say a lot of people showed up, over 30,000. It got out of control and a stampede broke out, people wanted to reach the entrance of the building first. 72 people were killed, all for a couple of prizes. My ate’s cousin was one of them. What is that about? How can people actually trample over each other?! It’s insane. What’s more, earlier that day Billy Graham’s son, who was touring the area, held a “revival meeting” with turnouts of over 40,000 people, only there was no stampede, no one was really that anxious to claim the prize of eternal life.

"How much better to get wisdom than gold,
to choose understanding rather than silver"
Proverbs 16:16