Time square was also cordoned off during New Years celebrations I believe. Why they didn't include sufficient portapotties within the perimeter but out of central show areas is beyond me.
Even worse, the way they had security set up was that herded everybody into corrals after frisking them. No re-entry into your pen was permitted.
There were portapotties stationed up and down the strip...outside of the corrals. If you dared to use them, you were done for the night-- you couldn't get back into your pen unless you evaded the cops and hopped a fence.
