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Here's a recap of an experience I had with a sloppy drunk/tripping/just plain crazy guy at Roo last year:
I'm sure I've told this before, but it was Monday in 07. Around 8 o'clock, my friends and I get up to put up the tent, pack everything up, clean up the site, etc. when we start to hear someone yelling. Just to note, our campground (if you look at the site map) was in the upper right area of the site, right alongside the wooded area.
So I'm looking around, to see if I could find this guy who is just YELLING, thinking something could possibly be wrong. Did some one rob him? Had someone tried to hurt him? Was he lost and couldn't find his way home? Nah... his flag fell from a tree branch.
He had marked his area by climbing a tree and putting a tye dye flag up on a branch, and by Monday morning, it had fallen down. He was livid. "Who the fuck took our fucking flag down?!?!? Whoever did it, tell me, so I can kick your ass!!!" He was yelling stuff like that to no f'n end.
I'm picking up all the excess stuff around the site, all the while this guy's still yelling and threatening everyone in his vicinity. Finally, I yell out "Dude, chill out..." Bad decision. The guy turns and looks at me and yells "Chill out? Your telling me to chill out?!?! I just got my badge, and I ain't afraid to use it!!!"
'I just got my badge, and I'm dying to use it...' yeah, so apparently he was an off duty officer? Or just full of shit? Nevertheless, after saying this, some dude walked up to him and proceeded to get shoved to his ass. At this, allot of people around me decided to walk up to him and settle him down. Saying "This is Bonnaroo, but if you're gonna try to hurt someone or scare people like this, we'll stop you, if need be." He stopped, reluctantly, but he stopped.
i saw some dude with a hole cut in his camp chair sit down on it and take a shit and passout right in the middle of the main trail at nelson ledges.
at roo we also watched a horse take like a 2 minute piss next to our camp. about 5 minutes later some chick came to pee in the same spot and was so wasted she fell over and was peeing on herself. her friend came to help her and she just yanked her to the ground and started wrestling her. so they rolled around in horse piss until the boyfriends came and helped. and the super messed up chick was carried away over her boy friends shoulder with her ass and all hanging out for the world to see. it was pretty entertaining.
Post by Sköldpadda on Mar 14, 2008 12:15:19 GMT -5
Our neighbors had a problem with a guy last year, I'm not sure if he was drunk or what.
It was this old guy who was trying to sell them corn, which they didn't want. So he insisted, and they told him for ten or fifteen minutes, in various ways, that they didn't want it. Keep in mind that he had just inserted himself in their conversation, sat down on their cooler and started hard selling them.
It started to get pretty heated, and one of them stood up (these were four or five well-built guys) and told the dude in no uncertain terms that he needed to go. He protested, and it seriously looked like he was about to get it...the guy's friends were telling him not to worry about it, it was pretty uncomfortable. So the dude left.
The guy that had told him to leave went off with another guy to see a show, and two minutes later, that dude was back. He went and sat down on the cooler again, "this...yeah....this my seat, this my seat," and started insisting to the guys that were still there that "y'all gonna respect this," and putting the corn in a steamer. He was actually yelling at them for not buying his corn, accusing them of thinking he was trying to rip them off.
Eventually, someone told him they were going to get the mounties, and he went away, and we all lived happily ever after.
Post by Darth Boo Boo Kitty @#*& on Mar 14, 2008 12:18:21 GMT -5
bos1969 said:
^^^I am a female and I think at that point I would have kicked his drunk ass also
I would have had to resort to verbally berating him while one of my male companions gave him a thrashing. Then I'd kick dust in his face. Heh. I sure as hell wouldn't take anything he had to offer the next morning.
Edit: I do have a story...In '06 one of our neighbors decided to move his car into tent-only. People do it every year, but this was, like, early Friday before all order had broken down for the weekend.
So, Friday afternoon we get back to camp after seeing some early bands and I notice that things are slightly askew. Examine my tent - it and several others in our camp have tire tracks and have been ripped out of the ground despite having been staked. My air mattress was flat and a friend's cot was mangled.
Later on while we were still at camp the guy decided that he wanted to drive out after partying with his friends for a few hours and started driving toward our tents. We and our neighbors got up and blocked his way while he yelled at us that he could do whatever he wanted b/c he was a Bonnaroo volunteer. He actually threatened to go get security to have us kicked out.
We just stood there until he backed the car out, but I couldn't believe that someone would have such a blatant disregard for his community. What a douche. We're lucky no one was hurt.
^^^I am a female and I think at that point I would have kicked his drunk ass also
I would have had to resort to verbally berating him while one of my male companions gave him a thrashing. Then I'd kick dust in his face. Heh. I sure as hell wouldn't take anything he had to offer the next morning.
Edit: I do have a story...In '06 one of our neighbors decided to move his car into tent-only. People do it every year, but this was, like, early Friday before all order had broken down for the weekend.
So, Friday afternoon we get back to camp after seeing some early bands and I notice that things are slightly askew. Examine my tent - it and several others in our camp have tire tracks and have been ripped out of the ground despite having been staked. My air mattress was flat and a friend's cot was mangled.
Later on while we were still at camp the guy decided that he wanted to drive out after partying with his friends for a few hours and started driving toward our tents. We and our neighbors got up and blocked his way while he yelled at us that he could do whatever he wanted b/c he was a Bonnaroo volunteer. He actually threatened to go get security to have us kicked out.
We just stood there until he backed the car out, but I couldn't believe that someone would have such a blatant disregard for his community. What a doosh. We're lucky no one was hurt.
Shoulda slashed his tires as he was backing out. Nothing says fun like driving out of a field on flat tires
last year, the hardest i laughed the entire festival was during the day either friday or saturday.
we're walking into centeroo probably around 3pm or so along where the wall with all the graffiti was and we pass this group of people all gathered around a girl who is leaning against the nearest car, which was very close to the road, popping a squat and clearly having trouble keeping her balance while pissing, falling all over and laughing at herself, while her friends laughed along.
this was a pretty heavy travel time and there had to have been hundreds of people who were all turning and laughing as they walked past at the spectacle.
Maybe I'll throw myself to the dogs, but my back's not to the wall Maybe I'll lay some bricks for the man, but the days just aren't that long So if I settle back and chill will I see far enough to feel the angel's dream? I thought it was the Story of the World!
*i like coconuts, you can break them open they smell like ladies lyin in the sun** *Hell I don't even know where I am** *for now I must sit here and ponder the yonder: The herbivores did well cause their food didn't never run** *We listen, if it feels good We shake** *You made a big impression for a girl of your size, Now I can't get by without you and your big brown eyes.**
Post by bamadancer on Mar 14, 2008 13:54:31 GMT -5
Poor girl I kinda feel bad for people like that.
Anyway, I have no sloppy festival-goer stories, thank goodness! I mean, nothing that you wouldn't normally see at Bonnaroo, anyway. I *AM* known to be a not-so nice person when dealing with obnoxious drunk people at concerts though...I have punched people before for getting belligerent with me! I have a very low tolerance for obnoxious drunk/f'ed up people at concerts, I guess.
One of my favorite quotes from a guy waiting in line behind me for the Comedy Tent last year..."Sometimes, people just suck."
Post by SouthGA_Festival Machine on Mar 14, 2008 14:17:24 GMT -5
bamadancer said:
Poor girl I kinda feel bad for people like that.
Anyway, I have no sloppy festival-goer stories, thank goodness! I mean, nothing that you wouldn't normally see at Bonnaroo, anyway. I *AM* known to be a not-so nice person when dealing with obnoxious drunk people at concerts though...I have punched people before for getting belligerent with me! I have a very low tolerance for obnoxious drunk/f'ed up people at concerts, I guess.
One of my favorite quotes from a guy waiting in line behind me for the Comedy Tent last year..."Sometimes, people just suck."
Note to self: stay away from bamadancer at Roo shows, unless temporarily unobnoxious/sober/coherent (unlikely). "Sometimes, people just suck", but not at Bonnaroo, everyone there is awesome and will only throw-up on people who need it to bring them down a notch closer to reality. It should be considered a badge of honor to wear Roo puke on one's back.
Post by deepspacesleaze on Mar 14, 2008 18:16:02 GMT -5
dudewhersmyinforoo said:
i saw some dude with a hole cut in his camp chair sit down on it and take a doodie and passout right in the middle of the main trail at nelson ledges.
at roo we also watched a horse take like a 2 minute piss next to our camp. about 5 minutes later some chick came to pee in the same spot and was so wasted she fell over and was peeing on herself. her friend came to help her and she just yanked her to the ground and started wrestling her. so they rolled around in horse piss until the boyfriends came and helped. and the super messed up chick was carried away over her boy friends shoulder with her ass and all hanging out for the world to see. it was pretty entertaining.
bro I laughed so hard at this while at work my coworkers were like wtf...am I immature because I still think poo is funny? nah..
Anyways I have one quick story. Shortly after arriving and having set up our camp last year, I saw a wookie out of his head to the nth degree. This was my first (and only) roo mind you, so I didn't quite at this point know what to expect. Right before we walk across the bridge towards centeroo (yea we were in BFE), he starts screaming and turning in circles. Then he yacks up a considerable amount, falls to the ground on his knees, and proceeds to start "bouncing" up and down while clapping his hands in his own vomit, mumbling some wook mumbo jumbo.
After that - nothing else surprised me. Okay, a few things did...
Post by bamadancer on Mar 15, 2008 14:22:03 GMT -5
southgajd said:
bamadancer said:
Poor girl I kinda feel bad for people like that.
Anyway, I have no sloppy festival-goer stories, thank goodness! I mean, nothing that you wouldn't normally see at Bonnaroo, anyway. I *AM* known to be a not-so nice person when dealing with obnoxious drunk people at concerts though...I have punched people before for getting belligerent with me! I have a very low tolerance for obnoxious drunk/f'ed up people at concerts, I guess.
One of my favorite quotes from a guy waiting in line behind me for the Comedy Tent last year..."Sometimes, people just suck."
Note to self: stay away from bamadancer at Roo shows, unless temporarily unobnoxious/sober/coherent (unlikely). "Sometimes, people just suck", but not at Bonnaroo, everyone there is awesome and will only throw-up on people who need it to bring them down a notch closer to reality. It should be considered a badge of honor to wear Roo puke on one's back.
Nahh, I'm really not that violent. Not unless you spill your beer on me/drop a crowdsurfer on me/knock me over/obnoxiously get in front of me (all those have happened...haha).
Story: A couple of years ago, my friends and I went to see Tenacious D. The doors opened at 6, but we really wanted to be up close so we got there at 2:30 and were the second people in line. We waited all day, and when the doors opened we RAN to the stage and wound up right in front. Anyway, the opener band comes on, and some obnoxious drunk guy procedes to wedge himself RIGHT between me and the stage and start dancing, stepping on my feet and knocking me over. No way in hell was he getting in front of me. He got a nice elbow to the ribs and he got the message ;D.
See, I'm fine as long as you don't fuck with me! lol
Post by SouthGA_Festival Machine on Mar 15, 2008 14:45:29 GMT -5
bamadancer said:
southgajd said:
Note to self: stay away from bamadancer at Roo shows, unless temporarily unobnoxious/sober/coherent (unlikely). "Sometimes, people just suck", but not at Bonnaroo, everyone there is awesome and will only throw-up on people who need it to bring them down a notch closer to reality. It should be considered a badge of honor to wear Roo puke on one's back.
Nahh, I'm really not that violent. Not unless you spill your beer on me/drop a crowdsurfer on me/knock me over/obnoxiously get in front of me (all those have happened...haha).
Story: A couple of years ago, my friends and I went to see Tenacious D. The doors opened at 6, but we really wanted to be up close so we got there at 2:30 and were the second people in line. We waited all day, and when the doors opened we RAN to the stage and wound up right in front. Anyway, the opener band comes on, and some obnoxious drunk guy procedes to wedge himself RIGHT between me and the stage and start dancing, stepping on my feet and knocking me over. No way in hell was he getting in front of me. He got a nice elbow to the ribs and he got the message ;D.
See, I'm fine as long as you don't quack with me! lol
OK then, That sounds like an entirely reasonable response.
Post by almostcertain on Mar 15, 2008 15:37:20 GMT -5
piercey33 said:
Ok so this story is going to make me seem like a horrible person but I'm really not so bear with me. This is a sloppy story because I was so sloppy drunk by the way so here we go. Friday night at MOE Down I had a handle of Fleischmans Vodka, I guess I did drink the better part of that bottle, but the next morning my boy comes up to me and hes like "Pierce you even know what you did last night?" I immediately thought to myself that this couldnt be a good thing. But I guess I walked up to this guys tent and started to piss on the open window, turns out he was sleeping in the tent at the time and I pissed all over him. As if that is not bad enough the guy comes out of the tent and he is pissed as he rightfully should be and I guess he started to pick a fight with me. No stranger to confrontation I am told I walked up and punched him in the mouth. But thats not all I guess our former tough guy friend totally changed his attitude and started whining and moaning "What the hell man you piss on my tent and punch me in the face, what kinda guy are you?" So in response I go "Why you want another one?" and just punch him again and left. To me this is a hysterical story and I'm laughing now just thinking about it, because it wasnt me it was the Vodka. When I learned of all this the next morning I found the guy appologized and quacked the doodie out of him. So there is my SLOPPY drunk story.
how many times have i told you NOT to tell this story?
Okay, this isn't a fest but it was a Dead show in 1989. A bunch of drunk frat guys sat in front of us making fun of everyone walking by. One decided to make fun of a girl that was with my party. This is after they have been drinking all day. The girl jumped up and grab this guys pants. He was so drunk he dropped to the ground she pulled his shorts and underwear off and took off running. His frat buddies went to run after her but the crowd closed in around them and everyone started to point and laugh at the naked guy. I kink of felt sorry for the guy having about a few hundred hippies that are normaly layed back pointing and lughing at your manhood must be pretty bad on the ego. One of the other frat guys finely gave him a dead shirt he that day and the guy made a makeshift weenie cover and the group left pretty pissed off. We hooked up back with the girl who had his on top of a huge blow up beer can in the vender area. I didn't really know the girl but can still see her running with that guys pants. I wonder what happend to that guy. He would be around 40 now.
Ok so this story is going to make me seem like a horrible person but I'm really not so bear with me. This is a sloppy story because I was so sloppy drunk by the way so here we go. Friday night at MOE Down I had a handle of Fleischmans Vodka, I guess I did drink the better part of that bottle, but the next morning my boy comes up to me and hes like "Pierce you even know what you did last night?" I immediately thought to myself that this couldnt be a good thing. But I guess I walked up to this guys tent and started to piss on the open window, turns out he was sleeping in the tent at the time and I pissed all over him. As if that is not bad enough the guy comes out of the tent and he is pissed as he rightfully should be and I guess he started to pick a fight with me. No stranger to confrontation I am told I walked up and punched him in the mouth. But thats not all I guess our former tough guy friend totally changed his attitude and started whining and moaning "What the hell man you piss on my tent and punch me in the face, what kinda guy are you?" So in response I go "Why you want another one?" and just punch him again and left. To me this is a hysterical story and I'm laughing now just thinking about it, because it wasnt me it was the Vodka. When I learned of all this the next morning I found the guy appologized and quacked the doodie out of him. So there is my SLOPPY drunk story.
how many times have i told you NOT to tell this story?
Why its a funny story and you know I wouldnt do that if I was sober.
how many times have i told you NOT to tell this story?
Why its a funny story and you know I wouldnt do that if I was sober.
ummmm... no. It would be funny if you were the guy in the tent and you stole the drunk guys pants. As is, it sounds like you need to watch your alcohol intake. Come on folks, lets come up with alternate scenarios that would make this story funny. ~E
*edit* Oh yeah, and I am going solo this year! How'd ya guess?
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Post by iridethecannibus on Mar 16, 2008 6:42:45 GMT -5
Nahh, I'm really not that violent. Not unless you spill your beer on me/drop a crowdsurfer on me/knock me over/obnoxiously get in front of me (all those have happened...haha).
now come on, I can agree with all of these except with getting beer spilled on you. I mean, that's one of those things that no one likes and that is annoying, but does it really deserve violence? at a festival, i think that that is somewhat expected... just be happy no one spilled their puke on you!
Why its a funny story and you know I wouldnt do that if I was sober.
ummmm... no. It would be funny if you were the guy in the tent and you stole the drunk guys pants. As is, it sounds like you need to watch your alcohol intake. Come on folks, lets come up with alternate scenarios that would make this story funny. ~E
*edit* Oh yeah, and I am going solo this year! How'd ya guess?
Well bro maybe you will be lucky enough to get p'eed on this year and you can come up with a bunch of funny scenarios untill your blue in the face. But for me I'm gonna party hard, rock out with or without the cock out, and have a great bonnaroo!
ummmm... no. It would be funny if you were the guy in the tent and you stole the drunk guys pants. As is, it sounds like you need to watch your alcohol intake. Come on folks, lets come up with alternate scenarios that would make this story funny. ~E
*edit* Oh yeah, and I am going solo this year! How'd ya guess?
Well bro maybe you will be lucky enough to get p'eed on this year
Ha ha! well, I've dealt with worse!
*edit* since we're talking about pee: 1st Roo I was with two friends, one who had never done the tour or fest thing. We were next to my van and he had to take a leak but you know, didn't want anyone to see him not using the port-o-john. What did he do? He grabbed one of my water bottles, pissed in it, then poured it out right at his feet. (?) The really sloppy part was next: He put the lid on and chucked the empty bottle back into the van. uuuugh! Yes, we called him on it.
Last Edit: Mar 16, 2008 10:33:56 GMT -5 by pisgah - Back to Top
Last year in VIP some really sauced chick climbed up on top of a huge RV. She was screaming and yelling and cussing at everyone. It was actually hysterical but people were concerned she would fall off and break her neck. Every one was begging her to come down before she fell and she refused. Some guy actually went up to try to get her down and he could not. Eventually a huge crowd gathered. Then mounties came and an ambulance. They had to force her down after about an hour of negotiating. Pretty entertaining... I still wonder what the fuck she was on... I am glad she didn't fall - that would have been bad, really bad...
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Mar 16, 2008 18:20:15 GMT -5
deepspacesleaze said:
dudewhersmyinforoo said:
i saw some dude with a hole cut in his camp chair sit down on it and take a doodie and passout right in the middle of the main trail at nelson ledges.
at roo we also watched a horse take like a 2 minute piss next to our camp. about 5 minutes later some chick came to pee in the same spot and was so wasted she fell over and was peeing on herself. her friend came to help her and she just yanked her to the ground and started wrestling her. so they rolled around in horse piss until the boyfriends came and helped. and the super messed up chick was carried away over her boy friends shoulder with her ass and all hanging out for the world to see. it was pretty entertaining.
bro I laughed so hard at this while at work my coworkers were like wtf...am I immature because I still think poo is funny? nah..
Anyways I have one quick story. Shortly after arriving and having set up our camp last year, I saw a wookie out of his head to the nth degree. This was my first (and only) roo mind you, so I didn't quite at this point know what to expect. Right before we walk across the bridge towards centeroo (yea we were in BFE), he starts screaming and turning in circles. Then he yacks up a considerable amount, falls to the ground on his knees, and proceeds to start "bouncing" up and down while clapping his hands in his own vomit, mumbling some wook mumbo jumbo.
After that - nothing else surprised me. Okay, a few things did...
That was actually dudewheresmyroo. I personally think the piss in tent story is hilarious.
I cant remember if it was Indiana or Illinois sorry so long ago... coult have been 90. but pretty sure it was 89.....going off the memory of th girl I was dating at the time..
The only semi-sloppy Roo story I have is from '03. There was this wook wandering the camp site at about 5:30 am looking for his hoodie. I was up making coffee because it was already too hot to sleep and he kept circling around asking "You seen my hoodie? Man, I love that hoodie!"
He'd then trip over peoples tent and fall on them, half collapsing them. And continue to circle.
The weirdest thing was he had this itching thing going on. He'd occasionally stop at someone's car and rub up against the door handle or crawl underneath and scratch on the bumper. After about a half hour he was bleeding from numerous places.
Eventually he pissed off enough people from falling on their tent that the police noticed and carted him off.
Kind of felt sorry for that wook. But he was getting bloody enough for me to be getting worried.
I kinda feel bad for people like that. 
