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.
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.