The Pinoy Big Brother  Big Night is coming up at the Ninoy Aquino stadium and I am sure thousands of people will flock there.  There are lots of PBB fans that would like to watch the big night live.  But for those who hates the crowd, then they will just be under the mercy their big tube at home or the small celphone tv wherever they are.  I then wonder what would be their type of crowd control.  I bet they have ordered a lot of stanchions to help them do the control.

What are stanchions?  They are the cord you can see guiding you in crowded business areas.  I’ve seen a lot of this in organized places and yes, in big concerts. You can also see them in the entrance of big buildings of private companies and in the malls where the line for men and women are separate for bag inspection and body inspection.  They are simply called stanchions.  I thought they are just simple called crowd rope or cord.

I was at the bank Thursday and Friday last week for an errand and there were so many people.  Good thing BDO uses stanchions and some offices uses the velvet rope which i sometimes find in very formal restaurants.  Crowd control such as these prevents insertions which can lead to crowd fight because if you have stayed long in line and someone inserts because he or she is in a hurry.  Good for those who are kind but there are just those who are unkind people who just simply get in the middle of the line and would be mad if being reprimanded.

A barricade is another means to control a big crowd.  This one is being used to vehicular traffic, people flow especially if it’s a big crowd and human contact is being discouraged to  happen between the public and prominent people such as president of a country.   I saw these portable barricades in arrival area of the airports.

Since this is a love month, there will be many concerts that will attract people.  So I am confident that each organizers are conscious of  security so they are going to use these different kinds of crowd control.