Thieves?

I had my backpack stolen with all kinds of 5hit in it including my wallet. I must have left it out all night in the campsite. I woke up really early on Sunday to find it missing. I went down to the lost and found in Centeroo and it wasn't there. So I went back to camp to see if it was laying around nearby and sure enough it was-- about 25 feet from our campsite!! The money and credit cards in my wallet were gone-- $100 plus. I canceled the cards before anyone could use them, as nothing is showing on my account so far. I think the thievery going on was by pros looking for cash. I had some good crap in my backpack that was still there--a nice underwater flashlight, unopened packs of smokes, a nice tapestry, a Timex watch, a swiss army knife and so on. I feel so lucky that my ID remained as I had to board a plane.

Thieves suck! Next year we need to have a 'campground watch' and catch these fuckers. If we had caught this rat in the act he would have paid for his actions right then. Think about it, these rats premeditate stealing from festival goers who they know are in party mode. f**k That. I plan to go again next year and will be ready for any would be thieves.

At my 3rd 'roo, I had a great time regardless!

I was laying down on a blanket with a friend near That Tent waiting for Rodrigo y Gabriella when I awoke from my nap to some kid picking up my backpack and trying to walk off with it. I said, "What are you doing?" He responded, "I'm sorry man. I thought this was my backpack." Then I said, "Well, it isn't. You want to put it back down?" Then he tried to be all "cool" about the whole thing and said, "Oh man, I'm so wasted, I thought it was mine!" Yeah.... sure.... jackass. Then I get up, grab my pack from him, and start walking away to take a quick bathroom break. Then I turn around and see him trying to take my friend's backpack as she is sleeping. That's when I lost it and said, "Motherf*cker, put that backpack down right now." He pulled the whole "Oh man, I'm wasted... this isn't my backpack?" line again and pretended to stumble around. I said, "Look, I know you are a piece of sh*t trying to steal, and in my neighborhood this would get you stabbed or shot, but stop with the bullsh*t lies and just leave." I have no respect for thieves.

You did this just because they passed out at your campsite, and appeared to be a "wook"??

our neighbors had stuff ripped off form their tent
cellphones ,ipods, goodie

granted they should of locked up...
we were right on 8th ave

our coolers were out in the open but they didn't touch em

shady characters around us sunday

If you ask me anything that happens to your site or belongings can be directly linked to some shady neighbor not far away.

As for the story above about some KB for $30... did you not expect to be getting robbed whether they took your money and ran or not?? That is WAY to much for KB at Roo!!

Didn't have any problem with robbery... but we camped in tent only, near the back where the fence is.

I hate to add this to the thread...and I'm sure will upset many of you out there...and that is not my intention at all. But from my point of view...the more of these rap/dance/reggae/super heavy metal acts they keep adding and adding each year to Roo....the crime statitistics will continue to rise. As someone mentioned a bunch of posts back...that they never encountered any of this crap back in the Phish days....these kinda f'd uped low life people always seem to be appear when these genre's of music are on the playlist. I would be willing to bet my last dollar that if Bonnaroo was made up of simply jam bands/folk/bluegrass/country....the theivery would diminish immensely.

Sorry if I upset anyone, just had to get this off my chest, as last year we had our campsite completely vandalized, and I'm not afraid of any criticism on my views...lol...so fire away.

I encountered much more of a problem with theft during my Dead and Phish touring days (90-on) than I've ever seen at Bonnaroo (I lost a great deal of faith in my fellow man back then and it's why I lock everything I want to keep in the truck when I'm not in camp). It's not the music, it's the self-entitled jerks who don't respect property rights. Every music style/group has them, but not every group camps while attending concerts.

I know Bonnaroo is supposed to be about peace, love, karma and universal whatever, but leaving anything valuable out in the open with 80,000 people around is just stupid.

And just like we on Inforoo represent such a tiny fraction of total attendance at Roo (see all the threads where people had such a hard time locating other inforooers, never heard a single "nom nom nom", etc), just imagine how many people had sh!t go missing in total.

You've got a vehicle there. Lock yo shit up.

I understand that and i agree, but to say that "the super heavy metal acts", and by that i'm assuming he meant tool, which by the way are NOT super heavy metal, lead to an increase in thievery is baffling me. I saw many shady looking characters at roo. None of which were wearing tool shirts. I wish i could present you all with the folks i met at roo, I'm pretty sure they would testify that I am not shady, and in fact a pretty laid back, honorable guy, despite our differences in musical taste.

It never even crossed my mind in the VIP section...i felt very safe and secure...gooooo VIP!

I was secure in VIP until I saw people jump the fence to get in. VIP isn't exactly secure.

That being said, all my valuables were locked up in the car, and no one seemed to touch anything left out in camp.

Seems the cops need to worry as much about thievery as they do drugs. I never heard these kind of complaints about roo before, and now I'd be afraid that Bonnaroo will be an easy target for anyone that participates in these kinds of criminal acts unless there is some action taken in the future, it will only get worse.

Temptation sometimes gets the best of the best folks. I have a lot of faith in my fellow man, but I still locked up my valuables and thereby removed temptation as an issue.