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For most people, Bonnaroo is all fun and games. But like any concert, there's guaranteed to be a couple people that take the partying a little too far and maybe even get dangerous. I've heard there's been at least one stabbing every year. Most everyone has a Roo horror story about seeing someone pass out or maybe you've even heard (or seen) a death. There is the infamous death by Ricky Skagg's tour bus we've all heard of.
I've always wondered how many crimes go unreported. I wonder if there've ever been any reported rapes? Anyway, here are the stats from Metropulse:
* Attendance at the first Bonnaroo in 2002: 70,000 * Expected attendance for Bonnaroo 2008: 80,000 * Total attendance between 2002-2007: 480,000 (6) * Attendance at Woodstock: 500,000 (2) * Attendance at Garth Brooks’ Central Park Concert in New York in 1997: 1 million (7) * Population of Manchester: 8,294 * Population of Coffee County: 48,014 (8) * Number of arrests at Bonnaroo in 2002: 18 (9) * Number of arrests at Bonnaroo in 2007: 73 (10) * Number of deaths at Bonnaroo 2007: 1 (11) * Number of deaths at the festival between 2002-2006: 5 (10) * Number of deaths involving getting run over by Ricky Skaggs’ tour bus: 1 (2006) (11) * Pounds of garbage recycled at Bonnaroo in 2007: 94,340 (12) * Number of results for Bonnaroo + hippies + 2002 on Google: 8,890 * Number of results for Bonnaroo + hippies + 2008 on Google: 25,400 * Number of results for Bonnaroo + “dirty hippies”: 1,030 * Number of results for Bonnaroo + marijuana: 42,000
Worst things I've seen were a guy passing out and going into some kind of seizure at Pearl Jam and on the last day some poor girl's ride had left her and she was trying to find a way home. That's the thing I'm most scared of. That would be horrible, but at least my place is only about a 3 hour drive.
Post by Lawn Gnome on May 12, 2009 19:40:27 GMT -5
Maybe this isn't a "horror" story per se, but in 05 I was hitting up the portopotties in Centeroo on the late night and overheard two people having sex in the adjacent facility. The mental picture of this in a portopotty that has been used in the stifling heat for well over 18 hours is horrifying, IMO. Just go back to the camp site people...
Post by nitetimeritetime on May 12, 2009 19:41:41 GMT -5
There was this one guy who came out of a port-o-potty by That Tent late one night who kept swearing to his friends that Jerry Garcia and Tom Petty were down there in the bottom of it playing a show. I didn't go in that one.
friend of mine got popped after a bullshit search in the camp grounds. he was shooting the crap with some dude saying how bad it sucked that he got a huge ticket. dudes like "yeah, that sucks, but i came back to my tent this morning to find a dead dude in it."
other than that just kids that are way too fucked up for their own good.
There was this one guy who came out of a port-o-potty by That Tent late one night who kept swearing to his friends that Jerry Garcia and Tom Petty were down there in the bottom of it playing a show. I didn't go in that one.
Man, you're lame - that would have been one hell of a show!
There was this one guy who came out of a port-o-potty by That Tent late one night who kept swearing to his friends that Jerry Garcia and Tom Petty were down there in the bottom of it playing a show. I didn't go in that one.
Man, you're lame - that would have been one hell of a show!
"Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." — Charles Bukowski
Post by noeysasquatch on May 12, 2009 20:45:19 GMT -5
My horror story was stepping on a deuce someone dropped in the campgrounds. It really sucked, but when looking back on the situation its somewhat hilarious. The only good thing was that i was wearing sandals. What really angered me was that it had been there for Thursday and Friday and i had successfully avioded it until that fateful morning trip to the port-o-potties.
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My friend and I saw the guy that died in 2007 getting taken out on the back of a golf cart on our walk to get ice in the morning. That was pretty scary.
Let's see.... Bonnaroo is usually a fun place with kind people however, bad things can happen.... 1. My friend going bonkers on the way home and trying to cut me - 2006 2. Having to break up a fist fight between two friends - 2002 3. Sitting in the back of What stage field and being tripped over my a giant. His face hit the ground hard and his fingers dug into the wound/stitches in my shin and broke two of four stitches- 2003 4. Having beer and a backpack with beaucoup $$$ stolen - 2006 5. buggin' out during Tiesto in a baaaaaad way. - 2008 (this actually turned into an awesome story from a horror story due to a simple call to the wife)
Nothing as bad as seeing a dead guy. Sorry for you guys that had to see that.
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My $18 MAC lipslick melted and broke off outside of the Other Tent last year.
There is no need for lipstick at Roo. There is also no need for MAC lipstick at Roo.
Having said that, total suck. Take cheap stuff if you must be beautiful.
Oh, my horror story? Being in the area of the infamous bus death not too long before it happened. Actually I was stumbling around because of the Valium that kind nurse man gave me. Could have been me, man. Could have been me!
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Post by stephiejane on May 13, 2009 10:25:28 GMT -5
dragging my husband out of oysterhead in 06 - he turned white in the face and collapsed. we were so close to the stage that it was hard for me to get help to drag him out...i just kept yelling "help! move! help!" until i got him out. dehydration+beer+crazy ass crowd=not a good combo. to this day i get creeped when i see a pig mask (do y'all remember when les was wearing that?! creepy.)
"Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors" - Hunter S. Thompson
Post by candyflippedaround on May 13, 2009 11:11:56 GMT -5
lol les has quite a few masks, one of my favorite things about him.
i dont really have a horror story... hmm my friends lost his wallet last year on sunday, and because he had no ID he couldnt take his flight home. Could have been worse, but there was an open spot in one of the cars going back and he got the wallet mailed to him about a week later.
and there was some kids causing a scene because this one guy didnt have cheap enough balloons for him.
I dont know if anyone remembers this but this one kid at bisco 06 lost his mind and with this wild look in his eye just started swinging his fists hitting everyone around him then soemone hit him in the face really hard and he left. Then about 5 min later he comes barreling into the crowd from the side and started doing the same thing I'm pretty sure some kids dragged him out and beat the nuts out of him and then handed him over to security. lol, I saw him a week later a bisco show in jersey and he had a serious black eye, like swollen shut and I asked him what the hell happened and he got really defensive about it and walked away, I thought that was pretty funny. good thing is I havent seen him at a show since then.
Freaking out trying to get out of the Sigur Ros crowd, then freaking out again trying to remove myself from the Kanye crowd, hiding behind a trashcan, and telling my friends to "Go on without me! Save yourselves!"
