What Could Possibly Go Wrong At A Festival?

[dr_pretentious]

Okay, festival-going folks, I need to collect potential incidents for the Sebastian novella. What are the weirdest, most high-stakes, most improbable, most hilarious and/or most dangerous things you’ve seen happen at a festival? What interesting disasters have you seen averted, or had a hand in averting? Please don’t use names or identifying details, because I don’t want to be party to accidentally upsetting, embarrassing, or libeling anyone. I just need some ingredients to zizz together in the Cuisinart of my fictioneering brain so I can make some story pesto. If in doubt, please respond privately.

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[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. Not what I'm looking for, but important to have a clue about. The tiki torch problem would not be intuitively obvious to the more risk-happy people I know, so it's good to have a cautionary tale filed away in case I need one.

The fact that FSA's festivals have organized medics is the reason the kid-injury stories Karen tells above would have ended differently at FSG. Our kids are just as likely to get themselves hurt, and I'm certain there are plenty of discreetly stoned people (along with the handful of wacky cases that end up in the Healer's Hut), but there would have been many more sober people available to get the kid proper care.

Which is by way of saying thank you, to you and all the medical volunteers.