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Kid stuff in thread = over As for technical horror stories, my power inverter somehow fried and kept blowing the fuses in my car, so I was only able to clear my memory cards once before my laptop battery died. Then I had to reduce the quality on some videos and not waste memory. I ended up pulling the memory from my phone for picture usage. It can happen.
scary! good idea about phone backup, ive got a micro in there and i never though about using it in the adapter for camera. genius!
any wristband horror stories? im afraid mine will come off or something.
first and second year we went - they were plastic - first year I freaked because after applying sunscreen - all the lettering on my wristband rubbed off. But it turned out ok
As most of you know I live right next to the festival, so over the years it has been possible for my wife and I to take our kids to roo and be able to bring them home afterwards (a huge plus btw), but our kids have been experiencing roo since they were 9 and 7. They have seen all the bonnaroo has to offer and we have never tried to shelter them from it or hide it. It is reality, the real world and I hope, through these experiences, that they will be somewhat better prepared for the world when they hit it alone in a few years.
Now my son is turning 16 this year and is amped about roo. I will be taking him to his first out of town music fest (At Camp Zoe, no less, where it is VERY lenient). I am not one bit worried that he will indulge in anything he shouldn't when I am not around.
No no's have never been made out to be taboo to him, we have only placed them on the same level as cigs and alcohol, something that ou can enjoy after your an adult. He knows that no nos are illegal and there are consequenses to your actions.
That said, people who can not suspend thier party for the well being of thier children have no business taking them to a festival. If you are there to party hard, leave the little ones at home, if you want to make it a family thing, then you need to take appropriate action to protect your children.
I COMPLETELY DISAGREE with thiose who say roo is no place for kids, roo is no place of kids whos parents are more interested in the party than thier childrens well being, simple as that!
i love you man. thats some dirt cheapness! xo. gonna get some and not open them, if not used, will return. ha i am such a cheap ass but what a backup plan!
They also had an 8G on sale for $29.99...I'm thinking about going back to grab one, although there's no way I burn through two 2G cards...I hope.
i love you man. thats some dirt cheapness! xo. gonna get some and not open them, if not used, will return. ha i am such a cheap ass but what a backup plan!
They also had an 8G on sale for $29.99...I'm thinking about going back to grab one, although there's no way I burn through two 2G cards...I hope.
oh - I would like an 8G for the camera just for regular use
Horror Story: Monsoon '04 and we had gotten our tent from BCBS Rewards. The top ripped off completely, but the well-sealed and well-staked bottom filled abotu 4 inches deep with water. When we returned to camp, wet and cold, we dicovered our clothes, sleeping bags, goat-skin drum!, food, etc, etc, etc... all sodden and swimming. Our neighbors lent us towels and food...bless 'em! Making lemonade out of lemons, we used the water in the bottom of the tent to wash ourselves thoroughly, so we had fresh clean-ness.
back to horror stories. I may have, probably, tore my acl last week. Had the mri friday and my follow up with the doc tomorrow. If it is as me and the doc suspect I'll need to get a new acl, but plan on making the surgery for the week after bonnaroo. I'm gonna be a good lil' trooper and not let this ruin my good time. in theory.
poor sugar. i will be with you carrying you all over 'roo. you only need one knee anyway.
back to horror stories. I may have, probably, tore my acl last week. Had the mri friday and my follow up with the doc tomorrow. If it is as me and the doc suspect I'll need to get a new acl, but plan on making the surgery for the week after bonnaroo. I'm gonna be a good lil' trooper and not let this ruin my good time. in theory.
poor sugar. i will be with you carrying you all over 'roo. you only need one knee anyway.
you are a doll.
Scheduled surgery for 6/30, they wanted me to come in the thursday after roo but they don't want me taking ibuprofen or other blood thinners a week before the surgery. I reckon I'll have a couple ibuprofens on some roo mornings.
Bonnaroo really isn't the Batan Death March that we all make it out to be sometimes. Karen is right - all things considered it is a very well organized and family friendly festival. I mean good lord, they have an entire campsite devoted to FAMILY camping. I don' think it's any harder to manage hydration, nutrition and the elements at Bonnaroo than it it at say...a long weekend at the beach.
Contrary to popular sentiment there are LOTS of places to get out of the weather @ 'Roo - but not if you want to be watching a show every hour of every day. Granted that IS how I approach things, but I am a young man only responsible for myself. A family with a more relaxed and balanced plan for the day shouldn't have any problem staying happy and healthy on the Farm.
As to exposing your kids to the Bonnaroo "sub-culture" - unless you are wandering around Shakedown or letting your kids stop on the side of the road to talk to the unofficial party favor vendors, I'm not sure what the big deal is. Yea there is a lot of smoking @ 'Roo, but beyond that I don't see that many people in the ACT of indulging right there in the open. As to people acting funny...I mean how much you want to explain to your child about that is up to you, but I don't think a lot of detail beyond "they're just having fun" or "he/she is talking to someone we can't see" is really necessary.
Bottom line - Bonnaroo is about as family friendly festival as I can imagine, and I don't see any reason why a responsible parent couldn't or shouldn't bring their child of any age, as long as they come prepared.
Mostly agree with you here bro but Bonnaroo is by no means as family friendly a fest. as most. The main reason I say this is the harsh weather conditions (ie. heat). So many other smaller fests are ridiculously more family friendly than Roo where there is far more shade and tons of kiddie activities to keep them entertained. Karen I applaude you and your attitude I personally will never take my son who is now 7 to 'roo but do not get down on people who do. It would not work out at all as I'd get to see pretty much 0 music and I don't think he would have a particularly great time. Now that being said I have already brought my little guy to 2 fests one when he was 4 (Suwanne Spring fest in Live Oak, FL 4 dayer but we went for 3 lots of shade, river, swimming holes, trails, ) and actually two times to the Mossy Head music fest. (local fest 45 mins from my house only about 2-300 people 3 dayer we went for 2) both turned out ok but did not get to see hardly any of the music that I wanted to. Thats my main thing as someone else said 'roo is MY Disneyworld and vacation to lose myself for 4 days.
I think that as long as you are responsible enough there is no problem with bringing your kids to any fest. Hell I've been going to music fests for over 20 years and have seen it all...some people can really handle it and some kids are great at fests.
I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right---P.T. Barnum "As I was walking up the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish to God he'd go away."
Post by lordrockinhood on May 20, 2009 21:12:22 GMT -5
I'm new to this thread... re:kids... people in and outside of the sitch can judge either way all they want, they always will, for EVERYTHING ... but it's the parent that gets to make the decision... it's not Roo, it's everything... to everyone with children, I can't even imagine
Hopefully.... one standing about 10-15 feet away watching a good natured girl hang out with their kid.....
but you know.... I wasn't there....
This could be true, and also could not be true
Here's something non-roo recent... judge all you want, or respect her decision? Up to you, just like her decision was up to her. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23935873/
I personally don't think I would do that, yet my much older siblings have never stopped complaining about how I got to go to the movies alone in my town at nine, when they all had to wait until at least 13, Nancy had to wait until 16
Every child is different, every parent is different, every parent child relationship is different, in every time and situation
MY ROO HORROR STORY: Bonnaroo '09 is the weekend before the busiest two weeks of the year for me at work. I had to beg to take off (even though I have hundreds of hours of vacation time banked) and am required to be back on-site Monday...in Indiana. So, after the Sunday night show, I'm packing up and driving all night/morning home. And, to top it off, I'm going with my bf and he wants to stay so we are driving separately.
However, if that's the worst thing that happens, I'll be thankful!
So, after the Sunday night show, I'm packing up and driving all night/morning home. And, to top it off, I'm going with my bf and he wants to stay so we are driving separately.
You have to drive all night to get home so you can be at work on time, and your boyfriend is staying behind to make you do this by yourself? Please tell me you have more people in your crew...
So, after the Sunday night show, I'm packing up and driving all night/morning home. And, to top it off, I'm going with my bf and he wants to stay so we are driving separately.
You have to drive all night to get home so you can be at work on time, and your boyfriend is staying behind to make you do this by yourself? Please tell me you have more people in your crew...
yeah. that IS mean but at the same time, i totally understand. lol.
I'm trying not to dwell on it, but it doesn't feel all that great nonetheless. On Sunday night, when you're snuggling down in your bunks, please send safe travel vibes my way.
I have seen people using needles at Bonnaroo 04. I have seen a guy standing completely naked fiddling with his penis(not masturbating just in space messing with it like a child) on the side of the road at Bonnaroo 05. I have seen people doubled over constantly vomiting in the field during Flaming Lips in 07. I have seen a straight up bloody brawl between some disco biscuits tour entrepreneurs. I could go on.... I am all but certain that these things dont regularly occur at Six Flags. If I have read anything on here that is immature or ignorant its trying to claim there is no difference between Bonnaroo and Six Flags/Disneyworld.
And thats double if you are saying there is no difference to a child. Maybe not much of a difference to a parent that would have more fun at Bonnaroo but for a child I would bet my scrote that there is a pretty big difference between Bonnaroo and an amusement park.
You must have viewed my vomit experience that was 5 minutes before the FLIPS came on... i threw up like 4 times. i was about 10th row and skipped the police and we were all like "f*ck the police"... lol.
Another horror story, not mine, but my husband's from '7. MY horror story from '07 was that I did not get to go.
Nakia: So we loaded up our pulley cart with ALL of our gear, not realizing that it was so heavy, all the tires would go flat. So, after about 5 minutes, there was the 4 of us trying to drag/carry this 1000 pound Cart Of Hell through Bonnagrass in the 90+ heat. After about 1/5 mile of the 3 mile hike, we were exhausted. Finally these 3 nice kids came and asked if we were ok. We got to a fence with their help at the camping only. It took ALL SEVEN of us to lift the cart over and into the camping only site. THis left me with a horrible migraine, and I felt ill the rest of the day. But without those kids, we would NEVER have made it. So if you need help, look for the guy with dreads down to his ass (one of the many) because I have SERIOUS karmic debt to repay.
Post by bonnaroobob on May 21, 2009 22:57:53 GMT -5
Hello Fellow Bonnaroonies...
Two Roo Horror Stories, both from the first year.
First of all, the inaugural Roo was an amazing experience, but because it was the first year, some of the rules that we've come to know as "standard" weren't really in place, or weren't enforced at all.
For instance, there was a ban on bringing pets to the Roo since the very beginning, but I distinctly remember these kids from Alabama who were camping next to my girlfriend and I for the entire 2002 festival. These kids (when I say "kids", I mean a bunch of 19, 20, 21 year old dudes) showed up with a truck, a couple of sleeping bags, several bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey, and one of the cutest little Rottweiler puppies I've ever seen. No tent, no water, no sunscreen, nothing. They did have a water bowl for the dog, and a small bag of dog chow, but they didn't bring any food for themselves, which I found kind of interesting.
Anyway, all weekend my girl and I had been making small-talk with these people, but we really hit it off with some of our other neighbors, so we didn't really pay the kids from Alabama too much attention. Except for the fact that they kept locking their Rottweiler pup in the truck every time they went into Centeroo to see a show. With the windows barely cracked. In fact, the last time they did it, they didn't crack the window at all, and ten minutes after they went in to see whatever show they were interested in (in 98+ heat), this puppy was yapping and crying and flipped its own waterbowl over so that it had nothing to drink. Keep in mind that it was at least 98+ degrees in the sun, and A LOT hotter than that in the truck. Plus, to make matters worse, they locked the truck (we tried to open it, naturally).
So, lacking any better option, my girl and I took a small hand axe to their window, broke it, and freed the pup. We played with it for a while, then handed it to the woman manning the First Aid tent. We left a note for the kids telling them where to find it, and told the lady that if the Alabama kids didn't claim the puppy by the end of the festival, we would come back to claim it ourselves.
So, long story short, the kids came back, read the note, and went to get their puppy. Things were somewhat tense between us for the rest of the weekend, needless to say.
Second story involves the same group of kids. Later the next day, I was lying in my tent around 6:30/7:00pm, getting ready to get up and go into Centeroo, when I hear the sound of a truck starting, REALLY close to where I was lying. Then this bright red light filled the tent, and the second I sat up to see what it was, the driver's side back end of the Alabama kids' pick-up ran right through my tent. While I yelled and screamed for them to stop, the tire rolled right across the place where my head had been just a few seconds earlier. These morons almost killed me, and nearly took out three or four different tents at the same time.
The rest of the story involves me getting out of the tent and losing my marbles on the kid behind the wheel, who was drunk out of his mind, and "just wanted to move the truck" so he could get out of there after the last set. When I came back later that night, they'd all moved, taking their dehydrated little puppy with them.
What can we learn from these stories? Don't bring pets to Roo. Watch where you lay your head. Also, it's not a good idea to move your vehicle when you're intoxicated.
Anyway, I only decided to tell those two stories because...well, stuff happens. Even at the best place on Earth. So keep your heads screwed on reasonably tight, and everybody will have themselves a grand old time.
Bob, duuuuuuude that is scary. I'm glad you're still alive.
Seriously man...me too. And I feel for that puppy. I have two rotties both of which I have raised from their infancy, and I couldnt IMAGINE subjecting them to that. Those sort of people make me SICK.
"We're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but just for tonight, we are Barry Jive and his Uptown Five. "
Did anyone ever see that show on abc called what would you do? (Or something like that). They had a situation that was simulated where a dog got left in a closed car at 90 degree + weather. It was really depressing the amount of people who were aware of what was going on and didn't do anything. Kudos to you for standing up for something that couldn't stand up for itself.
Post by thefretlessone on May 22, 2009 2:52:57 GMT -5
My buddy and I got sideswiped by a semi going 70 in Louisville. We had just switched after I drove from Buffalo to the Kentucky state line. I was just drifting off, when the trucks wheel was grinding a hole in my driverside door. It took over an hour for the police to show up, and another hour for him to fill out the report. Then I drove again because my boy was pretty shaken up(as was I) until Tenn. But no glass was broken, the airbag didnt deploy, and I got a check for $1900.00! And I left the battle scar and kept the money! And most importantly, we made it Thursday afternoon, and got a good camping spot. Our tickets also got lost in the mail, so we had to find this radio station to pick up replacements. But it was all worth it!
;D
