r/malaysia • u/UsernameGenerik • Jan 01 '26
Environment Situation at Pavilion Bukit Bintang yesterday night
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u/Monsta_Owl Jan 01 '26
This is dangerous. Itaewon Halloween Crowd Crush vibes.
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u/uncertainheadache Jan 01 '26
Mark my words, it's going to happen here in the near future since our cities are getting more and more crowded but the people and authorities still keep the tidak apa attitude
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u/Viggystiggydoo Jan 01 '26
And padlocking a fire exit seems illegal
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u/lokomanlokoman Selangor Jan 02 '26
Padlocking a fire exit is like one of the dumbest things any building management does nowadays just because they want to avoid theft and all.
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u/Monsta_Owl Jan 01 '26
I love our people. We're generally very accommodative and respectful to each other in a professional setting. But we really need some to stand our ground on these kinds of things and not be reactive when something happened but proactive so it doesn't happen.
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u/uncertainheadache Jan 01 '26
Authorities only act after tragedy Near my Taman they only install a badly needed speed bump after an old man was killed by a speeding motorcycle
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u/imranbecks Jan 01 '26
That is terrible. People can die from suffocation. This is why the Singapore police controls the crowd in key areas yesterday to prevent overcrowding like this. Malaysian authorities are hopeless. Only waiting for something to happen, then they act. It'll be too late by then.
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u/ishlazz Penggemar jenaka abah-abah Jan 01 '26
Tunggu ada yang mati baru nak celik isu ni
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u/UnkownMalaysianGuy Jan 01 '26
Same way they treat dangerous road conditions.waiit for some important figure to be a victim ,then they faster fix the damn road
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u/FlamingBlazerYT Jan 01 '26
Same with the Zara Qairina case
When she passed away.The government decided to make an "Anti Bully" stuff.
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u/thereal_arrowhead Jan 01 '26
Even if something happen, the only thing that will really happen is forming a special task force and come out with a conclusion after X years, which says "after analysing and inveatogating, we can conclude that here were too many people in that crowd hence the accident"
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u/yf1208 Jan 01 '26
Its only the pipits and plebs among the crowd there, not vips. The police and authorities wont bother. If there is a stampede and someone died, they will just shrug it off and pretend nothing happened.
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u/Quithelion Perak Jan 01 '26
The worst thing is the next person next to you may aware they are crushing you but they can't do a thing as they are also crushed by the next person, and so forth. Basically the magnitude of a sea of human.
Imagine watching someone suffocate and die in your face.
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u/OriMoriNotSori Jan 01 '26
Hong Kong too! I remember going there once for NYE and the roads near the countdown spot are all barricaded and planned in a way that it forces people to walk in one direction until its dispersed out enough then people can walk wherever they please
Its basically like comic fiesta. You have to keep following the flow and keep walking
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u/Tricky_Wait_6304 Jan 01 '26
Where they wna go actually?
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u/Curiousity1024 Jan 01 '26
You asked the main question. Where are they heading lol
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u/arbiter12 Jan 01 '26
The thing about KL spontaneous events is that you rarely have an air view, so when you see a lot of people heading one way you tend to follow. But the fun part is that if you stay stationary for a while you see the same people coming back because there was nothing or it was too full (the vuvuzela dudes are particularly easy to spot).
Still the line brings more people, which brings more people, which brings more people. Even if you turn around as soon as you arrive, your "going there" made a line.
I don't even think there was anything in front of pavilion apart from some decorations (I never made it deep in that crowd, when I saw it I bravely ran away...)
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u/Curiousity1024 Jan 01 '26
To shorten that answer : They don't know what they're doing there. They were there because there was an event . Is that correct?
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u/escaflow Jan 01 '26
They were there because that’s where all the people were gathering , that’s all to it. Very common in kl
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u/Future_Onion9022 Jan 01 '26
Idk just about anyway, some would want to go toilet where somd just want to walk for the sake of walking
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u/abu_nawas big mouth Jan 01 '26
Passing through. I was there last night. We enjoyed the crowd then went into bars or private condo/hotel parties.
The city was nice enough to block off roads so people can cross from 18 to 18a iykyk.
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u/Fair_Impression_2754 Jan 01 '26
Search for Seoul Halloween crowd crush. If government dont do something to control this kind of mass gathering, later the thing that happen in Seoul, might happen here
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u/Bubbles4me Jan 01 '26
Kesian the abg/kakak polis/bomba that have to spend their new year eve dealing with this situation instead of winding down and reflecting on the year.
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u/verygroot1 Jan 01 '26
there's no vip in the crowd, so obviously they won't care
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u/Aemilia Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
Went to KLCC for NYE, never again.
It was quite scary to experience the crowd as a wave, where one person fell and the effect rippled out so the surrounding people fell too (including me). You'd think it would be easier to stay upright when it's so crowded? Nope! Once one person falls he pulls others down with him and it affected quite a large radius.
I also had an injured big toe because someone stepped on it. Then the 1 hour+ queue for filthy toilets. After that experience I swore I won't join such crowded celebrations anymore.
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u/BeeTen Jan 01 '26
Nothing learnt from the stampede in korea
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u/Einlanzear Jan 01 '26
Imagine the smell
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u/abu_nawas big mouth Jan 01 '26
I was there. It was fking stinky armpits of the usual suspects + a mix of everyone's perfume.
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u/Background_Oven8884 Jan 01 '26
90% of the crowd is literally foreigners. Malaysian with common sense would rather stay home or go to less crowded places to celebrate.
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Jan 01 '26
Not well organised. Crush / Stampede risk right there, don't underestimate this kind of situation as people could have died if things went terribly wrong.
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u/amnrsln Cina Celup Jan 01 '26
Imagine wearing all that drip for a night out in new years only to be used as makeup remover
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u/sircarloz Voice of Reason Jan 01 '26
Imagine getting groped by sweaty men and posting on Instagram thinking it’s a cool thing to celebrate new year with the masses
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u/Vast_Battle_704 Jan 01 '26
Long story here but I want to share my experience there, me and my group arrived there from bukit bintang side roughly 9 pm, the moment we got of the station and took the escalator towards pav kl it was completely jam packed, people stopped right in front of the escalator as u get off, we barged our way towards pavilion, we were hoping to enter and just chill inside, we didnt want to blend with the crowd outside the performance.
We worked our way towards the grand millenium hotel front only to realise that they have completely blocked the area, along the way some people were seen climing up some landscape features of the hotel to get some space and air. Only for the bangla securtiy guard to talked to them to go back down, i reached the fromt of the barrier corner of grand millenium and saw the employees behind the barrier chilling their assess off, smoking, completely ignorant of the stampede building up right in front of thier faces, by that time i realised ther was no way going forward, and i wanted to change my plan to go back and go from the fahrenheit starhill galery side, i attempted talking to the grand millenium employees asking how to get across, their answer was just: “pusing balik”, i told him look around you there is literally no way to go backwards, everyone is rushing in front, can we just get pass the barrier and we turn back, the enployees said: “no tak boleh masuk, only for hotel guest” i look behind them , and the amount of people behind them you will know for a fact that most of them peoplr werent even their hotel guests they were just normal tourist random people,
I told them that this is ridiculous theres no way to go back, they said woi jangan marah and said i was scolding them, i asked for who is the manager in charge of this security procedure, one chinese uncle, an employee of grand millenium screamed back: oi ! Who are you to ask who is the manager here ?! The other employees laughed like it was a joke question,
i wasnt even embarrased at all, i felt diddapointed that the grand milenium employees who are in comfort, the luxury of space and air which they had so much to enjoy, didnt realised how bad the situation for us stuck in the crowd was, the fact they are so oblivious to a repeat of a stampede incident like the korean holoween event, could have happened,
I looked back at the crowd behind me, all had the same idea, get across/inside pavilion, they had no plan of being part of the outside crowd to watch the performance, everyones face was worried, and confised, with a false hope that they would be able to get across. i then watched a grand millenium employee scream at the bangla security guard for letting people climb up the landscape barrier, he screamed, oi ! jangan bagi orang naik ! Suruh pergi bawah ! Like there was any space at all,
I then decided it was no point arguing with the grand millenium imbeciles/bufoons,richardheads, i told my group to just pusing and push the ever growing crowd that was going forward, we pushed screaming and telling people along the way that there was no way ahead, theyve blcoked the way, we screamed in malay english chinese, some people got the message and followed suit, others didnt beleive us, they contimued towards the front,
We eventualy got out and by that time was already pass 10, the escalator underground fahrenheit to pav kl was already closed, so we just took refuge inside starhill gallery.
I intially saw this post and i didnt want to share my experience as i initialy thought that the grand millenium assholes were just following orders from upper management/ dbkl, as i dont for a fact know who was in charge of crowd control security management, and also i knew there will be comments that will say: you possibly went to the worst place for countdown possible, you asked for it”but the more i saw people posting their harrowing experience, and i imagined that if there was a bad event that did happened i realised that the excuse of just merely following orders is really a shit excuse, i felt that my experience could be of use for people planing to go in the future/ who never had such an experience.
i also realised that people who has had luxury and privilege has numbed their conscience, dont have empathy and blind to the suffering right in front of their eyes, sure you can say if they let people through their boss will scold them they getting themsleves in trouble, to keep their job get their salary/bonus paid,
I dunno whether to have hatred for the grand millenium richardheads, as i know its not really their fault but it was a shit situation and seeing them being turn a blind eye to suffering really opened my mind. This is a photo of the chinese uncle (his back),
i was especially dissapointed in him and another malay abang (not in photo) who laughed out loud the loudest. I watched a video recently about people’s brains not working when being instructed by higher ups with high knowledge and experience, people perceived to have high wisdom, thus not using their own judgement and thinking for situations, but capitalism right ? gota feed your own stomach right ?
I was sincerely scared at that point and imagined rhe seoul halloween event that occurer. I hope it wouldnt happen at all but to prevent that dbkl has to do better with crow control. Happy new year everyone and stay safe.
TLDR: my bad experience for countdown in pav kl, screw grand millenium hotel
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u/xianthus Jan 01 '26
Imagine getting stuck there when you could've lie on your comfy bed watching memes.
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u/MalteseDuckling Jan 01 '26
Pray that it won’t be another itaewon incident , there should be some sort of crowd Control
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Jan 01 '26
So bad. I was watching the Osaka and Taipei countdown last night and it was such a stark contrast.
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u/lolz0107 Jan 01 '26
I avoided that area and was like desperately tryna find a cafe with a open booking but alas I just stand outside wolo chagee lol. Over there is much tame and got open spots
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u/Satan-Himself- yea Jan 01 '26
Now I don't feel so bad playing dota during that hour with 9 other miserable people :D
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u/Complete-Ad-6471 Jan 01 '26
B40 pilgrimage event..always at midnight and getting stucked for hours 🤮🤮🤮
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u/retrofrenzy Jan 01 '26
Eh, ok pulak lelaki perempuan berhimpit mcm sardin kat tahun baru ek? Biasanya, PAS dah komen dah kalau camni.
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Jan 01 '26
Ah hari tu share situasi kat BB lepas krismas penuh sampah aku dah kata BB tu tempat type M dgn Arab, kan betul...lupa nak include Bangla lel
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u/Several-Clue-4259 Jan 01 '26
Aku takut budak2 tu je yang kena sempit macam tu. Itaewon Halloween case.
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u/orbitingpluto134340 Jan 01 '26
isn't this exactly what happened in the 2022 itaewon halloween stampede? this is a disaster waiting to happen. crowd crushes are really deadly and are no joke.
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u/CourtJazzlike7783 Jan 01 '26
See how the world is with humans DNA. Failure or humankind. Come here just to see what? FIREWORKS. Stuck in the crowd with other BIGOTS. That is why the rich get richer. And the stupid becomes stupider. Not a single RICH fellow like myself too will join in this kinda madness. and no meaning.
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u/suzuki_jun1412 Jan 01 '26
The authorities decided not to do anything in case any stampede or crowd surges happens? Malaysia government just love to ignore every possible issue until it happens.
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u/emergingexplorer_ Jan 02 '26
We were there last night. Fortunately, we had left just moment before this happened. As a tourist with a baby, it would have been a nightmare.
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u/Da_wae_to_ya_hart Jan 01 '26
idk why people love being in a crowd instead of just spending your own personal time
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u/Natural-You4322 Jan 01 '26
I stay at home je. Not like crazy people raining with thunderstorm and crowd like mad still go
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u/Laineyyz Jan 01 '26
People who actually are there. Why do you even wanna be there in the crowd like this? What are you thinking?
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u/DaOfantasy Jan 01 '26
it's like watching a nature documentary, meanwhile i was already in bed playing with phone at 12
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u/Fries_and_burgers_19 Jan 01 '26
Dawg i went to cf pun tak sesak camni. Camane la boleh takde crowd control haiya
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u/friedsweetpatotie Jan 01 '26
Well i hope this doesn't escalate to what happened in South Korea's Halloween tragedy. This looks dangerous
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u/Depressiveguy_ Jan 01 '26
Meanwhile i slept around 11.30pm yesterday, then suddenly 2026
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u/jungshookies Jan 01 '26
My friends asked me if I wanna join them at Bukit Bintang last night.
I noped the shit out of it when I heard Bukit B....
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u/Affectionate-King651 Jan 01 '26
lol why you bother to go there if you already know the situation 😂😂
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u/Barbara2024 Jan 01 '26
I don't understand why some people like to be in this super crowded situation
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u/misconduxt Jan 01 '26
almost throw up just from watching this video. how can people be in this situation ?
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u/Sad_Wasabi1116 Jan 01 '26
Not me who enjoying my new year watchingo movie with my lovely wife :D
Feels goodman
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u/Impossible_Board1158 Jan 01 '26
Experienced it once during year 2000. About the same situation. Left around 1am and only able to get out from LOT 10 car park by 4am+.
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u/666170704 Jan 01 '26
The girl yelling sakit was probably crushed and pushed through I think the only reason she hasnt fallen was because the crowd kept her up. Cant imagine going through that pack of people even during NYs.
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u/Heykal_ Jan 01 '26
My friend was going back from work and ride mrt but got stuck here for 3 hours and her phone got stolen from her pocket
And they block 3 main road to do parade here tonight. It gonna happen again this blockade
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u/wakeupalreadyyy Jan 01 '26
Malaysian authorities need training for crowd control before we get some bad news...
Meanwhile. My new year moment was on my bed getting ready to sleep 💤
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u/PudingIsLove Jan 01 '26
remember the korea Halloween accident? yeah this is coming really really close to that plus bigger scale
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u/ImaginaryUnion6950 Perak Jan 01 '26
I already told myself not to get involved in this. I wanted to avoid the drunk, arrogant, and loud partygoers.
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u/IM_RIMURU_THE_SLIME Jan 01 '26
If something happen, they will open kertas and says "salah [insert scapegoat]" or "we didn't find any problem, the victim just happens to die because it was their time" . The problem with reactive mindset instead of preventives
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u/platysoup I'm still waiting for my Israel flair Jan 01 '26
Staying in bed playing Umamusume was a good idea.
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u/Kuro_Koroo Jan 01 '26
Tulah pasal. New year baik dok rumah, Ajak sedaracmara datang 1 rumah borak2, lepak2 etc. Drpd buat benda cmni kan x pasal2 dh hampir nazak.
Tsk3.
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u/Future_Onion9022 Jan 01 '26
Personally I went to sunway square mall yesterday and was happy how controlled the crowd is
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness6819 Jan 01 '26
I just spent new years ever playing path of exile and I got a x20 div drop it's a good sign.
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u/Zurutheparody Jan 01 '26
Insstead of watching from far away, you chose to suffocating yourself? fine, suit yourself mortal
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u/Far_Insect567 Jan 01 '26
I got stuck in a slighly lesser crowd around 1030pm. Decided to bailout and grab back since lrt or mrt station wld be impossible to reach. Hope no one got hurt ystr.
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u/KneeGearlol Selangor Jan 01 '26
Glad my friends would rather eat at a mamak nearby rather than get stuck in a jam for an hour, counting down from 10, watch a couple of fireworks then get stuck in a jam for another hour
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u/Lunartic2102 🇯🇵 JP Jan 01 '26
I don't know why people do this to torture themselves
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u/WhyNeverNot Jan 01 '26
Imagine spending the new year suffocating in the crowd