Mr Garnham said that in many cases, finding a local police station that was closed was more frustrating than having to contact a more distant station where a response would be assured.
On Monday, the head of the festival organising committee Azam Khan resigned in response to the stampede at the main railway station in Allahabad, the victims of which were returning pilgrims.
The "plastic soul" of "Young Americans" was his strange response to the sound of black America and "Station to Station, " recorded in cocaine-maddened seclusion in Los Angeles in the guise of the "Thin White Duke, " presaged his return to Europe.
As mayor during the storm and the flooding that engulfed the city soon after, Mr Nagin was an impassioned and vociferous critic of the Bush administration's response to the disaster, famously losing his temper during an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM.