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If I weren't going to the festival and had the time, I'd love to be able to do this:
Very poorly pack my car full of junk, paint it up with "Bonnaroo or Bust", and drive around the area luring the cops to pull me over. Then when they ask to search, be as annoying as possible (respectfully tho ), waste as much time as I can, make them get the dogs, etc. As they waste their time with me, real festival goers get hassled less.
Then I could drive around until I find another cop and waste his time. It sure would be fun.
I think that is a splendid idea! Also very considerate to your fellow bonnaroo friends. I wouldn't do this personally but if you don't mind....... hehe
You know they'd find some reason to give you a ticket, either way....that's just how it works. If they want to give you a ticket, you're getting one, Hoss.
i think for our caravan this year im gonna by a windshield marker and put a "1" on my back window,upper left corner,a "2" on the car behind me,and a "3" on the one behind it,so when we get in the gates and funnled into the campsite i dont have to let everone around us know were trying to stick together...
good idea except you would still have to tell them what the numbers meant, and you would be by them before anybody saw the numbers in the back window. My suggestion is to tie the three cars together with twine.
Last Edit: May 1, 2008 12:54:29 GMT -5 by zoey - Back to Top
i think for our caravan this year im gonna by a windshield marker and put a "1" on my back window,upper left corner,a "2" on the car behind me,and a "3" on the one behind it,so when we get in the gates and funnled into the campsite i dont have to let everone around us know were trying to stick together...
Thats not a bad idea, I may consider doing that. Though I might wait until we are in line to write it on the widows.
FYI when we were coming in from the west, it was easy to see once we hit Tenn. who was going to Bonnaroo by looking at the contents of the car and the people. I believe we had lunch with some people on their way to the Roo.
The ride down is a blast, the ride home can be another story...
We uses to do something like this in high school. Me and my friends would drive around town being perfectly legal with a cooler full of root beer bottles, drinking them openly, just waiting to get pulled over so that when the cop asked what was in the cooler, we could say pop. We never actually got pulled over though.
If I weren't going to the festival and had the time, I'd love to be able to do this:
Very poorly pack my car full of junk, paint it up with "Bonnaroo or Bust", and drive around the area luring the cops to pull me over. Then when they ask to search, be as annoying as possible (respectfully tho ), waste as much time as I can, make them get the dogs, etc. As they waste their time with me, real festival goers get hassled less.
Then I could drive around until I find another cop and waste his time. It sure would be fun.
Post by candyflippedaround on May 1, 2008 20:06:53 GMT -5
lol rooster. i feel the same, this thread makes me want to mark up my car with bonnaroo messages so i will be pulled over searched and nothing found while others drive by and think "phew, one less cop to worry about"
it pained me to have to pin my bumper sticker to my concert ticket wall rather than apply it to my Jeep where it belongs, but yeah, that would be mindless.
Even if i didn't bring creamed corn for the epic drive to Bonnaroo from Kentucky, and had absolutely no reason to worry about going to jail if pulled over, i'd never be caught in a vehicle with "PLEASE PULL ME OVER, I <3 COFFEE COUNTY JAIL 2008!!!"
Even if you don't go to jail, that run in with johnny law can ruin your whole vacation that you've looked forward to for for 3 seasons.
A friend of mine got singled out and pulled over in 04. After they confiscated everyone's headstache, they let them go to Bonnaroo, but Dale couldn't let go and it foiled his whole weeked. Think: Being at all your Must See show's trying to have a good time, but your trip to Bonnaroo going bad thinking about having to make court appearances to Tennessee, the prospect of prison time, probation, druq court, fines, etc.. looming about the whole time you're trying to feel that feeling you forgot.
Well I guess I'm dumber than a sack of spanners because I had "honk for Bonnaroo" on the back of my car last year. It was blast, driving down from Indiana I counted 67 honks before they got so frequent that I lost count. Even more on the way home, but last year the dust was the giveaway.
For me it added about 8 hours to each end of the festival and I'll do it again this year, but also I have nothing to hide in my car.
I would love to do it, but my dealing with the PO PO have taught me better. Its like having a huge "Stop Me I may have goodies" sticker. The other one I dont understand is when I see a huge marijuana Leaf on the back of someones windshield! WHY??? Ill never get it.
In short, if you are excited about going to roo do what you want to do, just be smart about it.
As my Inebriated buddy walks out of the Porto, he yells out, "Dude...I love this place...bonnaroo thinks about everything...they even put beer holders next to the toilet!"
Had to break it to him that that was the urnal. Good times good times!
Post by Mada is it backwards on May 5, 2008 16:42:58 GMT -5
I say if you have nothing to hide write all you want. Don't let the stupid f'in pigs ruin your freedom of speech. I say F the cops! If you do get pulled over and they do search you make those d bags do all the work. Do not help them at all, and try and record in case they try some shady shit. Cops aren't all bad, but most of them are those d bag guys you knew in high school, who just wanted to continue being d bags.
Basically don't let the man ruin your trip up there. Do what you want, and stick it to them. Of course if you don't want to deal with the hassel or you have corn on your person then do everything you can to not get pulled over.
while i dont do it because of the attention from the pigs i kinda think they can tell because most cars are loaded with camping gear. so i dont know that it matters that much. maybe a couple states away it would. but most pigs along the way know what the deal is with the cars overloaded with gear.
some former friends of mine had a white lumina. and they brought dry erase markers and let everyone sign and draw on the car at the ledges. it was pretty awesome. they drove home with no problems. and there was some stuff on there that went way beyond "bonnaroo or bust" they had pot leafs, all sorts of drug references, and a giant flaming schwa on the hood. ill try to find a pic.
This is why it totally cracked me up to find a roo bumper sticker in my package last year! It was really a nice surprise but I was thinking... are you fucking kidding me!
Post by anicwilliams1580 on May 7, 2008 12:51:42 GMT -5
We know this guy who has alway been into the "fun" stuff, so it comes as a big shock when he decides to be a cop. So now he is busting on folks he knows for the stuff they do. I swear they do some brainwashing on the rookie cops.
We know this guy who has alway been into the "fun" stuff, so it comes as a big shock when he decides to be a cop. So now he is busting on folks he knows for the stuff they do. I swear they do some brainwashing on the rookie cops.
Now - that is just wrong - the cops I know that have ever been into "fun" stuff make a point to not do shit like that
Post by purplefuzzystuff on May 7, 2008 16:25:36 GMT -5
LOL we always write on our cars, we always have a small convoy of people and we each write on our windows.....Really stupid stuff like, "Honk if you like bacon" and Wham! lyrics lol...We've never had problems with cops...."knock on wood, for the love of god knock on wood" just cause cause I said that, we'll get pulled this year haha.... but it's not like we ever have anything incriminating....
There really isn't anything like being 500-600 miles from TN and having fellow bonnaroo goers wave at you, it definitely does make the trip to and from better
Post by tweejomoker on May 7, 2008 21:54:42 GMT -5
The only writing on my car last year occured when my buddy decided to use my windshield as a whiteboard. My first priority after leaving the farm was to find a car wash.
The only writing on my car last year occured when my buddy decided to use my windshield as a whiteboard. My first priority after leaving the farm was to find a car wash.
lol . . . when we got back home last year, it actually took us a couple of days to get to a car wash. I got up one morning, and someone (I assume from my building because we park in a garage) had written BONNAROO in the dust on the back windshield!
Bad idea. They can ALWAYS find a way to, at the very least, inconvenience you. Big time. You can find yourself delayed by hours and hours and having to explain yourself to cops, sheriffs and maybe even a judge.
Do you honestly think a trooper, after you just refused his request to search your car, is simply going to say, "OK sir, no problem, you can go now and have a nice day."? Ain't gonna happen.
When you're pulled over, the last thing you should try to be is some sort of activist attorney. Be polite and cooperative. Nothing of positive value will come out of being the opposite.
And to the fellow who suggested being an unhelpful smart ass to the cops when you have "nothing to hide" is awful advice as well. They will certainly find something to ruin your trip.
My advice for all you young whipper snappers who harbor resentment for "the man" is to knock that chip off your shoulder when dealing with cops who have just stopped you for a possible violation. They're not interested in your BS and don't play games. Remember, your actions have consequences, good or bad, ALL the time.
If you're really concerned about evaporating civil liberties and/or police abuse, write your congressman, organize rallies, get involved, etc.
Just don't act like a schmuck when you get pulled over.
), waste as much time as I can, make them get the dogs, etc. As they waste their time with me, real festival goers get hassled less.
...sniffle
