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.

Comments

[jasminewind.livejournal.com]

There are always interesting ways that people can break interesting body parts - scooters, golf carts, walking through fields or down hills, damage to ankles, legs, heads and penises.

I saw someone's tent tumbling around a field once - she wasn't in it. :-)

Mishaps with fire poi could easily happen if we had less responsible people running that program.

When I was pregnant with #1, we were tenting and it rained a LOT. The medics let us stay in the healer's hut. That was very nice of them and appreciated when our stuff got soaked!

A girl could get her first period at festival.

My tattoo session was delayed b/c the artist's SO was very sick. Like instead of 3pm it was after 10pm. But then I was under the needle at the same time a friend was in labor with her solstice babe.

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

Regarding the tent and the rain, there was the Burning Man where there was an immense deluge and many people's tents got flooded with mud...

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

So many of the answers I've received from other events could be annotated with could easily happen at FSG if we had less responsible people running that program. I'm beginning to think our community has been uncommonly lucky, or well-organized, or something. Anyhow, whatever/whoever watches out for us has my gratitude.

Spinning fire poi does seem like an exceptionally beautiful way of asking for trouble.

I'll file away the first-period idea in case of eventual YA novel.