A HP, well-known in the community for being deathly allergic to onions, walks across a field--a hundred yards away from but downwind of the outdoor kitchen (where they are chopping onions for the feast) and falls immediately onto the ground, clutching her throat and thrashing her limbs.
Standing in line for the meal, the man in front of you asks if you've read the latest book by Big Name Person -- you say no, you think of that author as an oathbreaker and scam artist -- and the man turns out to be the author.
The entire population of the festival is in a series of underground tunnels (the festival is happening in an old WWII army base) and during the reinactment of the Persephone story, an elderly woman has a heart attack. You are a mile from the nearest vehicle and 40 miles from the nearest hospital. There are no phones. And the gate to the festival site is a big metal one, which is closed and locked for the night.
Everyone makes little boats out of driftwood and flowers and then they put a candle on them, light them and set them out to sea on the outgoing tide -- the entire flotilla drifts about a hundred yards upshore to a wooden dock, which is immediately ignited.
A young woman decides it would be fun to take her dad's new seaplane to the event (the dad is out of town) -- she ties it to a buoy next to the dock and then next morning when she goes to show it off to the festival-goers, another boat had been tied up to the same buoy and through the night the impact of its slamming up against the floats of the seaplane has caused the seaplane to sink. The seaplane was not yet insured and was worth 1.5 million dollars.
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Date: 2014-07-13 06:51 pm (UTC)A HP, well-known in the community for being deathly allergic to onions, walks across a field--a hundred yards away from but downwind of the outdoor kitchen (where they are chopping onions for the feast) and falls immediately onto the ground, clutching her throat and thrashing her limbs.
Standing in line for the meal, the man in front of you asks if you've read the latest book by Big Name Person -- you say no, you think of that author as an oathbreaker and scam artist -- and the man turns out to be the author.
The entire population of the festival is in a series of underground tunnels (the festival is happening in an old WWII army base) and during the reinactment of the Persephone story, an elderly woman has a heart attack. You are a mile from the nearest vehicle and 40 miles from the nearest hospital. There are no phones. And the gate to the festival site is a big metal one, which is closed and locked for the night.
Everyone makes little boats out of driftwood and flowers and then they put a candle on them, light them and set them out to sea on the outgoing tide -- the entire flotilla drifts about a hundred yards upshore to a wooden dock, which is immediately ignited.
A young woman decides it would be fun to take her dad's new seaplane to the event (the dad is out of town) -- she ties it to a buoy next to the dock and then next morning when she goes to show it off to the festival-goers, another boat had been tied up to the same buoy and through the night the impact of its slamming up against the floats of the seaplane has caused the seaplane to sink. The seaplane was not yet insured and was worth 1.5 million dollars.