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Waking up Saturday morning to Daft Punk blasting out of a PA system but not from Centeroo but the opposite direction. I got up to see what the Quack was going on and was told by my neighbors there was a 5k race going on. I thought they were joking but then I saw people running past our camp. I totally missed the prior info on this. My next thought was 'Who in the hell can run period much less run a 5K on the third day of Bonnaroo?'. The funniest thing was watching all these athletic/runner types go by and then seeing some dude wearing what looked like a full body Bear suit or something hauling ass toward the finish line. That dude made my morning.
I was able to snag some video of my craziest experience. This is about half of our "conversation."
Oh man......I've definitely had an experience like this with one guy my first year. The guy wasn't going to the festival....just roaming around the campgrounds. He was an old war veteran and very jumpy. Was funny at times and like this video...got weird and scary at a few moments. That lady something odd going on.
Just before R. Kelly got underway there was totally messed up dude with his pants pulled down to his ankles and humping the ground. People pretty much cleared a big circle away from him and were taking photos but he was totally oblivious to everything around him. It was definitely odd and rather creepy too then unfortunately turned sad when some other guys started agitating him and he in turn lashed out. It happily wasn't long after that that security arrived and wrestled him into submission and then hauled him away before things could get too far out of hand.
Everyone says they love Bonnaroo. But when I try to consummate the relationship, I'm "messed up"and "rather creepy." Y'all are a bunch of CoachellaQuackers.
Post by thecoffman on Jun 17, 2013 23:12:28 GMT -5
I didn't see a whole lot of overly crazy things, this being my fourth 'Roo. However, two crazy things happened to me unlike any ever before.
1. While eating from one of the food trucks, a rather soft food I may add, I felt something hard and crunchy that certainly did not have the texture of food. I spit it out into my hand and it was a tooth. In the initial freakout, I thought someone else's tooth had ended up in my meal. While rushing to the food truck, I noticed that one of my teeth had gotten a lot shorter. Turns out I had a crown fall out. Sigh, guess it's a sign I'm getting too old for Bonnaroo. No bad impact, rest of the weekend was great.
2. Camped out from Passion Pit onward, maybe 30 feet from the pit rail. During Paul, a giant inflatable penguin landed on me, so I threw it forward. During all the excitement of throwing a blow-up bird during a McCartney concert, I failed to realize that in my hand was also my cell phone. It, too, went flying with the bird. Fortunately, it didn't fly as far. I scrambled madly to get to it. As I did, a guy passing by with mile-wide pupils and eyes of blown glass murmurs, "What? Lost something?" He swiftly turns on his cell phone light and shines it on the ground packed with dancing feet, shining it directly on my cell phone without hesitation. Thankfully, that meant I could continue checking the Bonnaroo app and not resort to a paper schedule.
Craziest thing otherwise? It probably was God's deal. A dark cloud rolling across the far west campground spit random raindrops on our heads around 3 o'clock. It grew as it floated east, presumably sucking up evaporated sweat and acid from the ground below, growing into a full storm with lightning just east of the farm. Yeah, that and the closing of the Saturday superjam were pretty crazy things to see.
Probably Action Bronson spending half of his show in the crowd roaming around and at one point completely leaving the tent and proclaiming that the show was now happening under a random tree out there.
1. While eating from one of the food trucks, a rather soft food I may add, I felt something hard and crunchy that certainly did not have the texture of food. I spit it out into my hand and it was a tooth. In the initial freakout, I thought someone else's tooth had ended up in my meal. While rushing to the food truck, I noticed that one of my teeth had gotten a lot shorter. Turns out I had a crown fall out. Sigh, guess it's a sign I'm getting too old for Bonnaroo. No bad impact, rest of the weekend was great.
This would be a great episode of Curb your Enthusiasm. Larry freaks out over some meal/food that has a tooth in it and raises a stink until he realizes that the tooth is actually his crown but it's too late and the kitchen staff are being punished. Eventually the episode ends with his replacement cap falling out, while in presence of the head of the original food place who now realizes what a liar Larry is.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Jun 17, 2013 23:41:29 GMT -5
It wasn't super crazy but when I was walking back to camp on Sunday around 5:30 a.m. there was a guy standing in the middle of bushy branch road by the vendors telling me (and everyone else who walked by) that it was father's day and that we need to call our dad. When Druid and I were walking into Centeroo around 12 p.m. the guy was still in the same spot, still telling everyone it was father's day and to call their dad. I wonder how long he stayed there
Saturday night after the Lumineers I was crossing over the which/what ditch and some guy who was obviously under the influence of party favors. Just runs and dives head first in the ditch, mouth wide open & everything. Some guy next to me turned to me and said, " we'll that's how you get aids ".. Pretty disgusting
You're just too young to grasp how stylin' I really was. All the boys wanted to do me when I was 5. Actually the girls did too. My haircut was confusing.
So first 'too, first post. During Wu- tang we were right in front of the VIP area during the show when this dude brah 10 feet ahead fell out and looked to be having a seizure, a few of us turned and yelled for help from security, when we turned back around dude brah was up and being helped towards the VIP fence. I took his arm to help direct when he all of a sudden stopped, I heard people shouting "stop, get him off!" He had grabbed this around the throat with a death grip and wouldn't let go. Her boyfriend and I had to punch him in the face and all over his chest before she got away, last I saw of him were his feet parallel to the ground as he got chunked over the fence. Piece of quackin shiz
So first 'too, first post. During Wu- tang we were right in front of the VIP area during the show when this dude brah 10 feet ahead fell out and looked to be having a seizure, a few of us turned and yelled for help from security, when we turned back around dude brah was up and being helped towards the VIP fence. I took his arm to help direct when he all of a sudden stopped, I heard people shouting "stop, get him off!" He had grabbed this around the throat with a death grip and wouldn't let go. Her boyfriend and I had to punch him in the face and all over his chest before she got away, last I saw of him were his feet parallel to the ground as he got chunked over the fence. Piece of quackin shiz
Post by abrakapokus on Jun 18, 2013 0:16:22 GMT -5
Aside from the creeper bros that kept coming to our site on Sunday night, Sunfox and I stumbled on a dance party behind the portos near access/clocktower. This party included: People of all ages dancing to crappy edm A young man with 4 foot inflatable penis. He would headbutt this penis and ride it around the party. Three topless women, one who's boobs were bigger than two giant loaves of french bread. One person who would throw up a handful of glowing bracelets at every "drop" While speaking to the only sane person there, his friend runs up in front of the mounted police and tells the guy, "OPEN YOUR MOUTH! PUT THIS UNDER YOUR TONGUE!" The offer of free special K Two groups of people who were obviously about to make babies
After typing this I can't explain how weird this was, it was the strangest sight I've ever seen. Later we saw the same guy with the penis on shakedown street, still riding the damned thing.
Not really a crazy thing but at Passion Pit back by the middle beer stand this girl had some AMAZING hula hoop skills best I seen in 5 years at Bonnaroo. Props to her.
Craziest had to be the topless chick at The Revivalists taking pictures with a bunch of random people. Talk about being confident in oneself. I guess if you have um flaunt um...and she definitely had um.
Post by memphis1979 on Jun 18, 2013 6:38:27 GMT -5
Well let's see. The frat guys taking half drunken beers from people leaving McCartney at the gate, that was pretty nasty and weird. Found one dye next day, "dude, we were so tripping balls that we didn't care about drinking beer out of the trash can.
The guy in the tuxedo banana hanger, with the tails for the tux, but not the pants. Dude behind him turned around to find some white snake starring him in the face!!!
Those were just fuze top two. Seeing that chick slip and lose her shit in the fountain was fucking hilarious.
Post by memphis1979 on Jun 18, 2013 6:42:15 GMT -5
Did anyone see the short little Seth green lookalike walking around centroo? That fucker was stalking me, every time I turned around that fucker was near by!!!
Waking up Saturday morning to Daft Punk blasting out of a PA system but not from Centeroo but the opposite direction. I got up to see what the Quack was going on and was told by my neighbors there was a 5k race going on. I thought they were joking but then I saw people running past our camp. I totally missed the prior info on this. My next thought was 'Who in the hell can run period much less run a 5K on the third day of Bonnaroo?'. The funniest thing was watching all these athletic/runner types go by and then seeing some dude wearing what looked like a full body Bear suit or something hauling ass toward the finish line. That dude made my morning.
The panda! The panda was RIGHT in front of me for most of the race. This one chickadee and I kept catching up to him and "tagging him." As soon as we would, he would run away and we'd start yelling, "Catch that panda! Don't let him get away! He's an endangered species!" That panda beat me in the end, but he made an excellent pace car for most of the race.
This is more of a weather phenomenon, but we were watching Macklemore from VIP when it stars POURING down rain. It's SOAKING the crowd, except for VIP, which is just getting a light sprinkle, just enough to cool off. The line was literally right there at the VIP fence. Suddenly the rain stops, just as quickly as it started. As we were walking away, we saw that the grass was dry outside of the What Stage area. It was just crazy the way the storm only hit the Macklemore crowd.
There was a guy Friday night near the back of the Paul McCartney show butt naked, just had his boots on. He went from sitting indian style to laying face down and back and forth for about 30 minutes before resting face down. He was still there when we left. Several people stopped and took pictures along the way so surely someone else here saw him.
Just before R. Kelly got underway there was totally messed up dude with his pants pulled down to his ankles and humping the ground. People pretty much cleared a big circle away from him and were taking photos but he was totally oblivious to everything around him. It was definitely odd and rather creepy too then unfortunately turned sad when some other guys started agitating him and he in turn lashed out. It happily wasn't long after that that security arrived and wrestled him into submission and then hauled him away before things could get too far out of hand.
Saw him getting wrestled to the ground and hauled off. Guy was stark raving mad. Looked like Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde (running on less than 30 hours of sleep since Thursday)
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Craziest thing had to be Empire of the Sun. What the FUCK was going on up on stage! Mind completely blown!
Heard some kids talking smack to their friend that she was going to need to tell her kid he was born from rando sex with strangers at Bonnaroo. She blasted em, "That's how YOU were born!!" then mumbled, "shit, I gotta get a pregnancy test"
Heard a guy say, "Hey, let's go see Jack Johnson and get a fuckin MORTGAGE!". That was hilarious!
We had a camp nearby us that had a Confederate flag for their camp flag. Even for someone who lives in East Tennessee, that was pretty surprising.
Yeah, we saw that. Passed it walking in every day. My dad was like "what is that about?" Felt like it was borderline inappropriate, especially considering the racial diversity of the fests' performers, fans, and staff.
They were another group of people who I didn't understand why they were there, because they were at their campsite every time I walked by. Morning, evening, night.
It's funny to me that so many people say they believe in diversity until they encounter someone that doesn't believe the way they do. Isn't that the very definition of diversity? If people truly want diversity, they should accept everyone, right? A Confederate flag doesn't necessarily mean racism any more than an American flag means you hate Native Americans. In this part of the South, many people are history buffs and fly Confederate flags for that reason. Surprisingly to some, many of those people are black. How is it diverse to have everyone think alike?
Yeah, we saw that. Passed it walking in every day. My dad was like "what is that about?" Felt like it was borderline inappropriate, especially considering the racial diversity of the fests' performers, fans, and staff.
They were another group of people who I didn't understand why they were there, because they were at their campsite every time I walked by. Morning, evening, night.
It's funny to me that so many people say they believe in diversity until they encounter someone that doesn't believe the way they do. Isn't that the very definition of diversity? If people truly want diversity, they should accept everyone, right? A Confederate flag doesn't necessarily mean racism any more than an American flag means you hate Native Americans. In this part of the South, many people are history buffs and fly Confederate flags for that reason. Surprisingly to some, many of those people are black. How is it diverse to have everyone think alike?
lol. This is ridiculous. Why would a "history buff" fly a confederate flag? Sounds like a weak attempt at rationalizing racism, I see this all the time.
Post by divemistressofdark on Jun 18, 2013 12:27:47 GMT -5
Yup. Dude, I live in Nashville and no way would I wear a Confederate flag on my actual ass. It offends people, pure and simple.
"Leads? Yeah, sure. We'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts! Leads, ha-ha!"
Post by divemistressofdark on Jun 18, 2013 12:29:15 GMT -5
Yup. Dude, I live in Nashville and no way would I wear a Confederate flag on my actual ass. It offends people, pure and simple.
"Leads? Yeah, sure. We'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts! Leads, ha-ha!"
Jesus, I love you people.
(I've had an account here for ages but am just now posting b/c I had a great time at this year's Roo... how do you make the tools come up? Bold font, quote & that? Thanks for any help.)
Aside from the creeper bros that kept coming to our site on Sunday night, Sunfox and I stumbled on a dance party behind the portos near access/clocktower. This party included: People of all ages dancing to crappy edm A young man with 4 foot inflatable banana stand. He would headbutt this banana stand and ride it around the party. Three topless women, one who's boobs were bigger than two giant loaves of french bread. One person who would throw up a handful of glowing bracelets at every "drop" While speaking to the only sane person there, his friend runs up in front of the mounted police and tells the guy, "OPEN YOUR MOUTH! PUT THIS UNDER YOUR TONGUE!" The offer of free special K Two groups of people who were obviously about to make babies
After typing this I can't explain how weird this was, it was the strangest sight I've ever seen. Later we saw the same guy with the banana stand on shakedown street, still riding the damned thing.
Was that right after I left you all? I knew I should have stayed out but it looked like things were slowing down.
Jesus, I love you people.