Crowd panic at Charleston fair caused by laser pointer, Charleston County SC
Disorderly ConductAt a fairground near the midway and fire lane in Charleston County, a large crowd panicked and ran after someone pointed a laser pointer at people's chests. The panic was initially mistaken for a fight or shooting, but no shooting occurred. The crowd reaction caused confusion and a temporary disorderly situation.
Audio|Source: Charleston County Police, Fire, EMS/Rescue, Marine SAR
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Transcript:
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Security, we've got a fight back here on the fire lane.
00:02
We'll hop out of waves.
00:04
10-4[1], what location is first choice off of?
00:10
Johners request.
00:12
They're running back here behind a port gate-four of the fireway.
00:18
You have a 1021?
00:20
Happy tidal wave, fire line.
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1012.
00:25
Hey, Bob, it is possible to have that trooper come to the bus.
00:31
Huge group running towards the middle and the midway.
00:35
We've got a problem back in the deck wheel.
00:39
There's a large group coming towards gate four.
00:45
Everybody's starting to run.
00:47
We got him running.
00:49
They're running in front of the magic maze.
00:51
Got a, like maybe a small riot going on.
00:58
We're waiting on and we have a number of units at the exit to the midway.
01:02
Just matter of time.
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843,
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8.5,000, 437.
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104, thank you.
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Hey, they're all on the fire list.
01:18
And we're getting reports of geeks of shooting.
01:22
Uh,
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Henry,
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um, standby.
01:28
104, that would help.
01:30
I got a luck route that ran behind the magic maze.
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Everyone's running because everyone else is running.
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Everything is 104 back here on the fire lane.
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They're just running away from everybody else running.
01:46
What do we have?
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9781 transplanters, 9781 transponders.
01:54
What do we have of the magic maze?
01:58
They're just, everybody's just reacting because somebody else was running.
02:03
I'm back here and nothing going on.
02:07
Everybody's running because somebody has a laser pointer back there and they're pointing out people's chest.
02:11
I've been running out with two people now.
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The bus is on its way.
02:15
It just passed 4B.
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Charles 18, 13, I guess.
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Ten, four coffees at $1.99.m.
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Okay, then we'll see you waiting on it.
02:27
Thank you.
02:29
Okay.
02:30
Okay.
02:32
Okay, but I'll help me get a trooper to the bus.
02:38
Unless you're on an important that you need to take, everybody needs to get back to their post.
02:43
I'm working on Pendring to stand by.
02:45
I gotta get this bus out, it's okay.
02:48
All right, yeah, we're getting them all back to the way now.
02:51
They're all just running because of the pointer and then somebody started running and they said the guy, we're getting stampeded.
02:56
That is. No shooting or anything like that.
02:58
We're out the fire running down behind the wave.
03:00
There's nothing going on back here.
Police codes explained
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10-4: Acknowledgment or affirmation that a message has been received and understood.
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Charleston County, SC
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