http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/24/middleeast/stampede-hajj-pilgrimage/ 700 trampled to death in a stampede to throw rocks at a stone pillar. _
Death by crane just wasn't efficient enough. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/world/middleeast/crane-crash-grand-mosque-mecca.html
You'd think he Mecca Chamber of Commerce was giving away free goats the way those fuckers were trampling over each other