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I can see both sides, pretty much. Sure, the guy was a loser if he wasn't there to see any music, but if it's good business, then it's beneficial to at least someone. If he was ripping people off, that's no good. Xanax still seems weird to take at a thing like that, though...why would you want to forget anything that happened at Bonnaroo?
Post by roolacksreality on May 2, 2007 17:46:45 GMT -5
Haha^.
I see where your are coming from. Accost was the wrong word. I was just being a smart-ass. I also have respect for people who do stuff like that to get by because it is not very easy. My point was I had seen these people more than once and just felt like screwing around a little bit with them on my way back. I did take it a bit too far though. And in retrospect I probably should of kept walking. Sometimes I think people like that just need a taste of their own medecine, to an extent, of course. If it got to the point where their neighbors told me to let it go, I would of left. But as I walked away they were cool about it and most of them found it quite amusing. I'll won't even bother next time though, that was a sketchy situation to get into. But when you're walking back from one of the greatest shows you had ever seen, feeling great and all, and then you see some idiots messing with people...I don't know you feel like you can handle it or it's the right thing to do, I guess.
true. i can see your point too. we had some neighbors last weekend at nelson ledges that didnt leave their site the whole time. they were sketchy wooks and lot kids selling. it made me a little nervous about my stuff but all was well. but what really pissed me off was they left their camp just trashed. they didnt pick up a thing. i agree that it would be a better place if those people stayed home. the hardcore sketchy wook/lot kid crowd is a strange scene. i understand the need to stay at camp when so many sketchy people know what their doing and how much money can be made off of stealing from them. but there is no reason to leave a trashed campsite. we cleaned up most of it. until we got to the underwear and condom. thats someonelses problem. please dont support these types if you run into them. they are probably selling bunk anyhow.
Post by roolacksreality on May 2, 2007 19:34:32 GMT -5
dudewhersmyinforoo said:
true. i can see your point too. we had some neighbors last weekend at nelson ledges that didnt leave their site the whole time. they were sketchy wooks and lot kids selling. it made me a little nervous about my stuff but all was well. but what really pissed me off was they left their camp just trashed. they didnt pick up a thing. i agree that it would be a better place if those people stayed home. the hardcore sketchy wook/lot kid crowd is a strange scene. i understand the need to stay at camp when so many sketchy people know what their doing and how much money can be made off of stealing from them. but there is no reason to leave a trashed campsite. we cleaned up most of it. until we got to the underwear and condom. thats someonelses problem. please dont support these types if you run into them. they are probably selling bunk anyhow.
Yeah, I can't stand it when people leave their camp trashed. It's so damn disrespectful. Our site was dirty but we seriously cleaned it every afternoon before the headliner (After which it would just get dirty again.). Unfortunately there will always be a group of idiots at 'Roo and other festivals as well. I usually just let it go and don't even say more than a "Hi" to them. But whenever that shit happens I just want to call their asses out.
Last year was my first festival experience ever, so we were kinda overwhelmed. We did party fairly hard first day, but we are polite kids, and genuinely nice people, so we got allot of tips and help. Especially from our very close neighbors, a girl named Angela and a guy named Rick James. They were the two best people we met there, they slowed us down the first few hours we were there (already too late though, if you know what I mean) and helped us make the next 3 days the best of our lives. Eternal karma to the open minds at Roo, able to stop for a second and help out those unfamiliar.
Ok, I'll give mine. The Dios Malos show on Thursday night last year. Naked guy climbed the scaffolding on the stage all the way up to the top in one of the tents and tried to monkey bar across the stage. Went about 2 bars, and fell a good 25 feet to the ground.
They stretched him off, and I think he ended up breaking at least one of his legs if not both.
Did the band say something like "we're not pearl jam and i'm not eddie vedder" after that? (i probably butchered some spelling right there). I thought that incident happened at the MMJ show in '06, my only time at roo. I could be mistaken though, as we were at the back of the crowd and I wasn't really in a very good state of mind for remembering details
well after reading thru this board i searched my spotted memory of the 2 roos ive attended and only have one story to contribute....
in '05 at the YMSB show (i think) there was this dude darting thru the crowd selling sipps from a moonshine jug.....my only thought was, screw that cause if it is made incorrectly it can cause blindness......
as irony would have it, several hours later while we were walking somewhere in the venue these other 2 guys come walking swiftly thru the crowd......one was walking with out stretched arms yelling "i cant see, i cant see!!" and the other was yelling "can anyone help him please"......everyone just kinda stared at them....some folks just pointed them towards the medical tents......but no real effort was exerted to help them by anyone......
i was not exactly in a position to be of assistance to anyone
it seemed like a hoax at the time, but it has always stood out in my mind.....i have often wondered it was a prank or serious......but the timing of it was quite creepy.....
probably a hoax. ive drank lots of moonshine at lots of shows and never even heard of anyone actually going blind. i think that was a risk in the old days when they were making shine in crazy and unsafe ways because of prohibition. i could be wrong. but i dont think it still happens today.
Post by flicky0urbic on May 3, 2007 8:15:29 GMT -5
Last year at Disco Biscuits some dude that was obviously messed up in the middle of the crowd just starts RUNNING full speed... In the middle of the crowd. They had to restrain him and take him away.
i know what you're talkin about flicky ^. He was gone for a little then he somehow got back into the crowd. He looked fairly wasted, out of control. Thank god someone took him away. He took my concentration off the madness that the bisco party was producing. That may have also been the worst thing i saw.
Though, that morning, as my friend and I were walking through the Bonnaroo arch toward our campsite, we saw some dude being carried on a stretcher. The only thing we heard him say was "upside downnn". He seemed like he would make it out o.k. eventually.
Not sure if anyone mentioned this yet. Seems like if one does it (urinating outside) many will follow. Late at night on Saturday last year I remember walking between stages just outside Centeroo. These must have been around 50 dudes urinating behind the blue porta-poties. When ever one guy would leave another guy would take their place. Maybe someone should invent a 50 foot open air trough urinal with a curtain surrounding it.
on sunday morning in '05 the sweetest (very) old golden retriever-mix, with a really bad limp, wandered over to our camp site and collapsed. he was panting ridiculously so we gave him lots of water and eventually some food. i searched all around but couldn't find anyone who knew where the dog belonged, other than a few people saying they saw it wandering around all morning. the people at the pod said they could do nothing about it (once dumbasses get their dogs in to roo, there is nothing done to enforce the no-dog rule). i've volunteered/worked at animal shelters since I was a kid so i was beyond pissed, not only about this poor dog, but all the ones i saw at roo. especially the neglected ones with useless drugged out wooks, who were clearly hot, thirsty and miserable.
luckily i've never witnessed anything like the bad stuff people mentioned on here, but seeing the dogs is definitely the worst for me, it makes me so sick... especially since they do nothing to bring it on themselves.
Right on! This will be my first Roo, and seeing crap like that will certainly make my "worst of..." list.
Peeing on the fence is one of the very few things us guys get to have all to ourselves in this world.
I have seen many gals attempt this at roo, in many states of conciousness. A small few of them are successful, but the majority end up with a wet ass or wet panties!
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All the bad horror stories about people falling out or just plain losing it are aweful. There's another side to it though, in almost every story it ends with ...and they were taken away by medical staff or they were taken away by a friend. Very rarely are the "crazy in their head" people just left to endure it by themselves.
Peeing on the fence is one of the very few things us guys get to have all to ourselves in this world.
I have seen many gals attempt this at roo, in many states of conciousness. A small few of them are successful, but the majority end up with a wet ass or wet panties!
while I cannot say that I have ever tried to pee on a fence - peeing outside is not limited to guys - if you gotta go - you gotta go
Post by oleander124 on May 3, 2007 11:48:46 GMT -5
i love to pee outside...it may be hard to do for the ladies, but it just feels so gooooooood to do it! It's like I'm being bad or something......i gotta start doing that more! ;D
