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3 minutes into Centeroo (Thursday) and we stumbled onto a naked man, screaming and in zip tied handcuffs.
I dunno if you were there for this, but someone later in the weekend told me that he was projectile shitting himself earlier. Pretty glad we missed that part!
I didn't see much crazier than that, but there was a dude in a horsehead standing in the middle of the road near mini-Shakedown in some kinda deep stupor. Despite numerous people telling him to move, our festicab almost ran him over before his friends pulled him out of the way. Also saw a dude in a full gorilla suit on multiple occasions, not sure how he did that in the heat. Likewise the various folks in bear suits. If I ever wear a full body costume to Roo it'll be a "naked middle aged white lady" costume...
My favorite weirdo of the weekend remains the dancing veggie lo mein guy, on the road in. I have never seen a happier guy.
Also, pro tip: one of our festicab drivers told us about one of theirs getting accidentally dosed from a water gun the previous year. That possibility had actually occurred to me, but I thought I was being paranoid. Guess not!
well every day I went to centeroo I walked past this flag.
The confederate flags are not uncommon at Roo -- I noticed them since '07. But on a more positive note, the diversity was off the charts this year. Liked that for sure. 2. The only racists I encountered were the ATF sheriff's that rolled up on me when I went to hang out with my inforoo/chat buddies at RV... Letting you know once again that the authorities are often times the real systemic issue: sorry for "walking away too fast"
Don't know if anyone else saw this but when we were waiting in line on Friday to get into Centeroo, some guy who was tripping sprinted through the line and made a beeline for the back entrance of the That Tent. Almost got up there before security intervened. After they spoke to him, he does a 180, yells HELP once at the top of his lungs, and takes off sprinting towards tent only. He gets to the fence, tries to hop it but catches a foot and slams down into the corner of a random tent. It was hilarious mostly cuz we had no idea what just happened haha.
A close second happened when we were waiting in the Pit line for Sir Paul. This guy was tripping so hard he couldnt stand up straight. By that I mean he was walking around permanently in the lean-back pose. My friend goes to take a piss and said he saw the guy sprint towards the water tent there run by a marching band booster, slams into a chair next to this volunteer lady and asks her to "pour water on my face". The woman's response was hilarious....kind of like a mix between "where the hell am I" and "This wasn't in the job description"
3 minutes into Centeroo (Thursday) and we stumbled onto a naked man, screaming and in zip tied handcuffs.
I dunno if you were there for this, but someone later in the weekend told me that he was projectile shizting himself earlier. Pretty glad we missed that part!
That could have been the best way to introduce n00bs to Bonnaroo, imo.
Last Edit: Jun 19, 2013 11:06:17 GMT -5 by Deleted - Back to Top
This was more scary than crazy i guess, but during The xx we saw what looked like a fight at first, but apparently this MMA fighter lost his mind and attacked an old lady and was beating her and he attacked some other people too, and what we saw at The xx was his friend (also an MMA fighter) trying to restrain him because he was the only person big enough to do it. Then these people from the medical tent came and a cop was there too and he got handcuffed and carried away. Someone was saying he "ate some mushrooms he found on the ground"... uh..don't know how true that is but it definitely was not something we wanted to see.
That's pretty scary. I think we must have walked past the situation right before he started attacking people, because I remember a guy who looked extremely agitated & wild-eyed with 3 guys around him trying to calm him down. The guy was big, so we kept moving pretty quickly. Were all the folks alright who got attacked?
Post by railroad436 on Jun 19, 2013 11:46:11 GMT -5
First show I went to on Thursday and within 5 minutes of arriving and standing right outside the tent on the upper left corner - a women collapses and has a seizure.
In a span of 10 minutes, a total of 5 people either had seizures or collapsed and went catatonic as they were coming up and out of the crowd. This was like 5PM on Thursday. I told my friend - someone is going to die this weekend, this is not a good sign.
Luckily, I didnt see another person collapse or seize all weekend.
On Saturday night, I got seperated from my friends and this couple who were obviously obliterated on things stopped me and asked me to take a picture. The man manages to tell him they just got married and then rubs the womens tummy and tells me that she is with his child while she is obviously hammered out of her mind. I took the picture and they asked my name. I tell them and he says, "we're going to name our child after you!" and then they walked off.
Turtles are, actually quite sexy, if you think about it. I’m getting an erection just thinking about turtles. No, not a stripper named turtles, that’s not funny. Actual turtles.
—?Thom Yorke
Walking in Friday night for Sir Paul - we're walking down 2nd between like 6th and 7th with a lot of people and 2 wooks are headed toward us. One stops at a fresh pile of horse droppings and goes, "Look - FREE SH*T MAN" and reaches down and grabs a giant load. He then proceeds to stick it in the group in front of ours faces and says again, "FREE SH*T - THERE'S A HUGE PILE THERE MAN." I'm all about the pleasantness at Bonnaroo but if someone shoved poop my face there may have been an issue.
Hey inforoosters, I'm the guy responsible for the bounce house during PorterRobinson, and just thought I'd respond with some details and pics.
First the full story....
We had met a guy (whose identity I'm gonna protect, so we'll call him George), who implied that he worked for Roo transporting people in golf carts back and forth from roo to camp sites. When he heard we were trying to sneak in a generator and bounce house he immediately offered to use his 'staff' access to hide the equipment in his golf cart and sneak it in. He came to our camp site, we loaded the equipment, and sure enough... the golf cart breaks down! Most people would give up at this point, but not me or his group of roosters. We literally pushed the golf cart from Group Camping to the staff entrance, through security (while one of his buddies ran up and distracted the security guard with details of how the cart broke down), and into the back of the PorterRobinson tent. From there it was just a matter of dragging the equipment into the crowd, pulling the cord, and not chickening out!
As the OP mentioned, we lasted fully inflated for about 30 minutes, and yeah, it got pretty chaotic a few times. WAY to many people jumping the walls to get into the bounce house. Eventually a security guard came over, pulled the power cord, and told us to pack it up. We knew this was gonna happen and decided to just follow the orders and come back and do it again the next night during RKelly. However.... this is not the end of the crazy story.
About 10 minutes later, as were waiting for another golf cart to come pick us and the equipment up, we got surrounded by about 30 security guards and a guy that looked like Chuck Norris and was only referred to as.."the man who controls your Roo Fate". It turned out that our new buddy 'George', did NOT work for Roo in any way whatsoever. A matter of fact, about 60 seconds before security showed up he had just informed us that not only does he not work for roo, but that him and his group had fake wrist bands, make fake staff id's, and fake golf cart staff passes, and then just drive right into centeroo via the golf cart staff entrance!
Needless to say Chuck Norris man was not very happy at all. Luckily, they owned up to our group not knowing anything about that. I'm not sure what happened to Georges friends, but I do know they had to get two golf carts out of the impound yesterday. I was just kicked out for the night and had to hand carry all the equipment out of roo (thankfully I had some friends who saw this go down and helped lug it all out).
In the end... no real penalty or harm done, and it turned out to be an awesome Roo story to add to the collection. I loved everyone's excitement when the bounce house fully inflated for the first time. Definitely one of my favorite stunts. YAY BONAROOOOOOOOOOOO!
P.S. To any Roo staff....I'm truly sorry for my irresponsible and immature actions, and promise to never bring a bounce house into centeroo again. I'll come up with something way better by next year
I am pretty sure it was all a DJ Jazzy Jeff show he was in back on the mixer and the girls did not show up until over halfway through the set.
Are we speaking of the same show? post PTM show during the Soul Superjam?
Yep at the fountain I caught them setting it up and was on the rail, I could be wrong about it but I am 90% sure the guy running the tables in back was DJJJ, plus it started with more classic hip hop before it got to the bounce part.
Are we speaking of the same show? post PTM show during the Soul Superjam?
Yep at the fountain I caught them setting it up and was on the rail, I could be wrong about it but I am 90% sure the guy running the tables in back was DJJJ, plus it started with more classic hip hop before it got to the bounce part.
LOL I thought I saw you to my right, but I was party favored up.
Post by railroad436 on Jun 19, 2013 12:48:39 GMT -5
During Boyz Noize, these people had one of those air mattresses that go onto a scaffolding like stand and they essentially made a coach in back on the hill. They said it all fit into one backpack and they used it all weekend and it wasnt heavy at all. I wish I had thought of something like that, it might save my legs.
Turtles are, actually quite sexy, if you think about it. I’m getting an erection just thinking about turtles. No, not a stripper named turtles, that’s not funny. Actual turtles.
—?Thom Yorke
I was walking through Centeroo by the Post Office early in the day (I think Saturday) and a large, bearded man is literally running straight at me. He stopped suddenly and put his arms around me and gave me a huge hug. I gave him a huge hug back. My kids and Mrs. G were just standing there - when I figured out it was Dave Maynar. Once we established our bona fides, I got my cool back and returned the hug with more conviction. And it was good. So not really the craziest, actually one of my favorite moments of the weekend, but for a second there I think we all thought I was a goner.
Dave? Running? I don’t believe it. I call shenanigans.
The only story that comes to mind this year is not a funny story, but a story nonetheless... After setting up Wednesday night, a neighbor's jeep's e-brake snapped, it rolled forward and over the foot of the neighbor across from them. Again, not a funny nor cool story, but still kinda crazy (and scary).
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
I was walking through Centeroo by the Post Office early in the day (I think Saturday) and a large, bearded man is literally running straight at me. He stopped suddenly and put his arms around me and gave me a huge hug. I gave him a huge hug back. My kids and Mrs. G were just standing there - when I figured out it was Dave Maynar. Once we established our bona fides, I got my cool back and returned the hug with more conviction. And it was good. So not really the craziest, actually one of my favorite moments of the weekend, but for a second there I think we all thought I was a goner.
That could have easily turned into a Lawrence Taylor/Joe Theismann moment.
Hey inforoosters, I'm the guy responsible for the bounce house during PorterRobinson, and just thought I'd respond with some details and pics.
First the full story....
We had met a guy (whose identity I'm gonna protect, so we'll call him George), who implied that he worked for Roo transporting people in golf carts back and forth from roo to camp sites. When he heard we were trying to sneak in a generator and bounce house he immediately offered to use his 'staff' access to hide the equipment in his golf cart and sneak it in. He came to our camp site, we loaded the equipment, and sure enough... the golf cart breaks down! Most people would give up at this point, but not me or his group of roosters. We literally pushed the golf cart from Group Camping to the staff entrance, through security (while one of his buddies ran up and distracted the security guard with details of how the cart broke down), and into the back of the PorterRobinson tent. From there it was just a matter of dragging the equipment into the crowd, pulling the cord, and not chickening out!
As the OP mentioned, we lasted fully inflated for about 30 minutes, and yeah, it got pretty chaotic a few times. WAY to many people jumping the walls to get into the bounce house. Eventually a security guard came over, pulled the power cord, and told us to pack it up. We knew this was gonna happen and decided to just follow the orders and come back and do it again the next night during RKelly. However.... this is not the end of the crazy story.
About 10 minutes later, as were waiting for another golf cart to come pick us and the equipment up, we got surrounded by about 30 security guards and a guy that looked like Chuck Norris and was only referred to as.."the man who controls your Roo Fate". It turned out that our new buddy 'George', did NOT work for Roo in any way whatsoever. A matter of fact, about 60 seconds before security showed up he had just informed us that not only does he not work for roo, but that him and his group had fake wrist bands, make fake staff id's, and fake golf cart staff passes, and then just drive right into centeroo via the golf cart staff entrance!
Needless to say Chuck Norris man was not very happy at all. Luckily, they owned up to our group not knowing anything about that. I'm not sure what happened to Georges friends, but I do know they had to get two golf carts out of the impound yesterday. I was just kicked out for the night and had to hand carry all the equipment out of roo (thankfully I had some friends who saw this go down and helped lug it all out).
In the end... no real penalty or harm done, and it turned out to be an awesome Roo story to add to the collection. I loved everyone's excitement when the bounce house fully inflated for the first time. Definitely one of my favorite stunts. YAY BONAROOOOOOOOOOOO!
P.S. To any Roo staff....I'm truly sorry for my irresponsible and immature actions, and promise to never bring a bounce house into centeroo again. I'll come up with something way better by next year
You da man. You da man. Wish I had seen this firsthand. I know you btw ha!
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
3 minutes into Centeroo (Thursday) and we stumbled onto a naked man, screaming and in zip tied handcuffs.
I dunno if you were there for this, but someone later in the weekend told me that he was projectile shizting himself earlier. Pretty glad we missed that part!
I didn't see much crazier than that, but there was a dude in a horsehead standing in the middle of the road near mini-Shakedown in some kinda deep stupor. Despite numerous people telling him to move, our festicab almost ran him over before his friends pulled him out of the way. Also saw a dude in a full gorilla suit on multiple occasions, not sure how he did that in the heat. Likewise the various folks in bear suits. If I ever wear a full body costume to Roo it'll be a "naked middle aged white lady" costume...
My favorite weirdo of the weekend remains the dancing veggie lo mein guy, on the road in. I have never seen a happier guy.
Also, pro tip: one of our festicab drivers told us about one of theirs getting accidentally dosed from a water gun the previous year. That possibility had actually occurred to me, but I thought I was being paranoid. Guess not!
I saw a guy with a bandana over his face run into the crowd at futurebirds on solar squirt a water gun and run off. I don't think he would do a guerrilla water attack but would do a guerrilla L$d attack.
but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal. 
