Comments on: Costa Rica seeks to reduce soccer violence this season https://insidecostarica.com/2014/07/23/costa-rica-seeks-reduce-soccer-violence-season/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 By: Eric Safersteinhttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/07/23/costa-rica-seeks-reduce-soccer-violence-season/#comment-9132 Eric Saferstein Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:29:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=15572#comment-9132 The most critical issue affecting stadium security remains unresolved.

People have a fundamental right to know…
that if they’re in a large, confined crowd and receive an evacuation order and/or panic-inducing information from their cell phone…
it’s almost certainly a hoax designed to create an artificially generated stampede.

LEGITIMATE emergency evac orders are delivered via the public address system.

Learn more: http://agsaf.org

]]> By: Ken Morrishttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/07/23/costa-rica-seeks-reduce-soccer-violence-season/#comment-8991 Ken Morris Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:36:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=15572#comment-8991 An irony is that not long ago the Sala IV ruled that residents bothered by the noise of the soccer games had to live with it, since according to expert testimony by psychologists, loud soccer games are good for the “mental health” of the people. I was floored by the rationale for this decision, since I seriously doubt that psychologists know enough to render clinical judgments about soccer’s affects on collective mental health, but for the fun of it would like to see someone else bring the same case and use the expert testimony of psychologists from the National Women’s Institute to argue that soccer games incite violence. Although I suspect that this argument is more rot than real too, it strikes me as stronger than the silly one about soccer games being good for collective mental health.

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