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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I knew I'd get some good Burning Man stories! Of all the descriptions that could end with a sarcastic "what could go wrong," a giant burning sculpture with fireworks and an interior chamber is right at the top of the list.

We've seen some flying tents, but the steel carports sound kind of terrifying.

See below for more porta-potty hilarity.

I may never have the physical durability to go to Burning Man -- when people talk about the harsh desert environment, I listen -- but somebody needs to write a story in which the sculpture-vehicles have a car chase. For that matter, a video that consisted of nothing but a car chase, Burning Man style, would be an epic viral hit.

I had to google the hanging story. Wow.

Sunburn where the sun don't usually shine is a classic problem. The trick is coming up with something freshly comical to do with that.