Feast of the Black Nazarene 2011 - tension with the sea of people at P.Burgos st .

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As expected once again, the crowd is much bigger this year and it was a surprise for me that many made it to reach the Nazarene and touch the wooden cross, teenage girls are also active in crowd surfing, jumping, and falling. I saw many people got hurt and most of them fell under and never been spotted again. There are a lot of tension and actions going on in here, and I noticed that the movements are fast and the arrival of the Black Nazarene here in my location is early, last year they arrived at around 3pm, but this time they were early at around quarter to 2pm.

See more crowd actions in my photo coverage below
more photos below

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a massive crowd arrives before the Black Nazarene

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it was noisy and all I can hear are the shouts of many people, then I saw that the rope was thrown away in the air

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the crowd went wild after the rope was thrown and the rope vanishes in the middle of the crowd

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then the rope that pulls the Black Nazarene reappears and people was seen holding it on their shoulders

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it was like a tug of war with no rules, everyone wants to hold the rope, there's a marshal tries to re-organize the pull of the rope, he hit the hands of the people who are holding and pulling the rope on the wrong way

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the guy who raised the hands got the message from the marshal

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others wait for their turn and try their luck again to touch and pull the rope

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this guy warps the end of the rope to his neck, just to secure that the rope won't let go out of his hands

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if you hold the rope, dont let go and start pulling it

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after the rope was thrown out on the other side, many approach it and grabbed the rope

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many of them got tired and request for water to people who are sitting on the top of the roof, water were sprinkled to them, other threw some bottled water.

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a tattooed guy was booted out of the line of the rope

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on the other side of the crowd, a guy sprinkled them with his bottled water just to cool them down

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this guy catches my attention when I took some pics and he ask for some water, I want to throw my bottled water, but he is far from my area.

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The Black Nazarene arrives

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I saw this guy near the Black Nazarene, I don't know if he loss consciousness due to exhaustion, he looks like that he floats over with the sea of people

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then he sank under. We saw this and we are concerned on what happened to him

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the big crowd doubled up near the Black Nazarene

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everyone wants to climb up to the moving coach of the Nazarene

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the rope went back and it seems that the pull force are not organized again

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they threw the rope to the other side of the crowd so that they can pull it properly

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everyone fights for the right to pull the rope

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here He comes now

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circling around the rope

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teenage girls were spotted diving and like swimming over the crowd, they jumped to touch the cross and later on fall on the ground. I even heard one of them screamed so loud after falling, I think they were hurt, because the fall is around 15 feet tall from the cross.

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more of them pops out from the crowd, other people helped them by pushing them up wards and then pulling them back to safety

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me watching the action

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the crowd at back are helping one another by pushing the coach

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a small crowd appeared at the back of the Nazarene carrying their own Nazarene, tension arises again as many of the crowd repels them for sneaking infront of them

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Everyone really tried so hard to reach the cross. I'm thinking of to try to reach and touch it next year. It will be a challenge and an experience that I will never forget. see you on 2012.