Bugün öğrendim ki: 1896'da Amerikalı bir işadamı, 40.000 kişilik bir gösteri yarattı ve burada iki lokomotifin birbirine çarpmasına izin verdi, sırf eğlence olsun diye. Maalesef kazanları kaza sırasında patladı ve iki kişi öldü.

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1896 rail crash publicity stunt in Texas, USA The **Crash at Crush** was a one-day [publicity stunt](/wiki/Publicity_stunt "Publicity stunt") in the US state of [Texas](/wiki/Texas " Texas") that took place on September 15, 1896, in which two unmanned locomotives were crashed into each other head-on at high speed. William George Crush, general passenger agent of the [Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad](/wiki/Missouri–Kansas–Texas_Railroad "Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad"), conceived the idea in order to demonstrate a staged [train wreck]( /wiki/Train_wreck "Train wreck") as a public [spectacle](/wiki/Spectacle "Spectacle"). No admission was charged, and train fares to the crash site – called Crush, set up as a temporary destination for the event – were offered at the reduced rate of US$2 (equivalent to $62.22 in 2020) from any location in Texas. As a result, an estimated 40,000 people—more people than lived in the state's second-largest city at the time—attended the event. Unexpectedly, the impact caused both engine [boilers](/wiki/Boiler "Boiler") to [explode](/wiki/Boiler_explosion "Boiler explosion"), resulting in a shower of flying debris that killed two people and caused numerous injuries among the spectators.