Illegal concert; shooting kills 12 in S. Carolina

What Rigger?

I'm so fly....I Neverland.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...hurt-during-illegal-concert-in-south-carolina

From the photos I've seen, truly a "backyard" party type set up (the "bar" was built out of pallets with a paper Tiki Bar banner), concessions was an EZ Up and some iced down barrels from a convenience store. So at first I was figuring "nobody legitimately connected to the industry involved", right? But the NY Post had a photo of the "stage", and it looks like it's 20" truss with some sort of deck layed over it. I'm really hoping some local venue staffer didn't decide this was a good idea- but it's not like we see truss just laying around unsecured, waiting to be stolen.

Anybody else hear anything? Story all plays out the same on the wire services.

truss stage.jpg
 
Ignoring the rest of the crazy, is that necessarily unsafe to use truss in that way? Assuming the decking is thick enough and all. Of course also ignoring the hundreds of other staging solutions out there too lol!
 

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