Another molasses disaster

http://home.swbell.net/dietricj/molasses/history4.htm

This one in 1932, in Mississippi; the author of that website seems ignorant of the earlier Boston flood, but the Mississippi disaster has two things going for it: (1) the molasses was boiling, so that victims were "carmelized instantly," and (2) they commemorate it every year with a macabre and perilous "running of the bulls"-style reenactment (with non-boiling corn syrup).

A conversation

Cirque du Soleil, Saltimbanco soundtrack, track 6, "Urgence"

The 80s stylings of this instrumental piece prompted the following brief conversation a few hours ago:

Me: I can almost see the credits!
J. ... It could also be the scene where he or she pulls him- or herself together and puts on freakish finery, getting ready to go and show those stuck up kids once and for all.
Me: Exactly!
J:... or it could be a montage.
Me: Yeah.
J.: But it would still have to be one of those pulling-yourself-together scenes, after the character has been beaten down. ... I don't think it would work for a sports movie, though -- but I can see the single working mother with two kids, defiantly pounding the pavement...
Me: ...for a job interview!
J.: Yeah.
Me: ...or to collect enough signatures...
J: ...to ban the... whatever.
Me: Right!
[pause]
J.: But it doesn't sound like acrobats at all.