Mirror’s Show Accidents
On July, 28th, a sever accident happened during the fourth night of a popular group’s concert in Hong Kong Coliseum. A big screen suddenly dropped when all the performers were dancing below, and hit a 27 years old dancer Lee Kai-yin right on his neck, leaving him in a very critical condition. Another dancer was also hurt by the screen, he suffered a minor injury.
Lee Kai-yin was conscious on the way to the hospital, his head, neck, cervical vertebrae and spinal cord were hurt badly, there is a possibility that his body functions under the neck may remain paralyzed even after all these surgeries.
We can use mathematics to help understand this accident in a much more concrete way: the screen is 600kg, we don’t know the weight of the dancer, by visual judgement, we can suppose he weights 60kg. 600kg is 10 times 60kg, being smashed by this screen is at least equal to being smashed by ten 60kg adults. You can’t even afford to be hit by 10 little children simultaneously, not to mention 10 adults. And the screen was hanging that high, it must be far more than 600kg when it dropped at an accelerated rate.
People may feel anxious when they saw videos of this accidents. I replayed that striking moment several times, I first got mad than anxious, because it was like a uncontrollable providence, since I found through the video that he even wasn’t under that screen a split second before it fell.
Before their 12-day show started, there were videos reveal two dancers got hurt during the rehearsal. Well, it can be seen as a way of creating hype, someone must get hurt, their injuries are proofs that the team was trying hard, they are 200% devoted to the show. theoretically, it is inappropriate to use security as a gimmick. But when reported this was their one and only rehearsal which happened the early morning of their first show day, I realize that the two dancers’ injuries didn’t result in marketing skills, but because of the ignorance of the management team. As we can see, on the first day of their show, there is a panicky part that the 12 members standing together on a bridge which is trembling badly. They canceled this part the next day because of the boos and jeers of the audience.
It’s true that if the show is a indifferent one, there is nothing special for the reporters to write about. They think they should either make it better or worse to get rid of the mediocrity, and sadly they choose the later. It’s about money, too, say, if they can trigger the audience easily, become the talk of the town, they gonna save a lot of advertisement fees. The organizers can also save money by not using the best materials to construct the platform or by hiring less employees to handle the same heavy workload. There is no space, time and manpower to make a double check or a final check, plus the younger generations’ negligent attitude towards their work, an accident is unavoidable.
Judging by moral philosophy, what if the screen fell down with hurting no one? Will the show still continue that night? Will the show of the next day start on schedule? Will the audience boycott the show because of the organizers’ negligence, or will they just enjoy the show since they have already paid for the tickets? The show did suspend that night, will the audience of that night get a refund? Or since they watched half of the show, should they at least get a partial refund? No matter the left shows will go on or not, can the audience who bought those tickets get a refund voluntarily? Also, will the fans of this idol group chew these audience out for asking a refund at this particular moment?
