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

[laradionne.livejournal.com]

Some of these comments make me very thankful that the worst things I can remember from various festivals/retreats/lodges/etc. are things like migraine headaches, air mattresses with holes in them, watching the collapse of a massage table because someone over the weight limit of the table insisted that they weren't too heavy (I felt sorry for the massage therapist who had to repair/replace a fancy portable table), heat exhaustion, sunburns, angst-filled lover's quarrels overheard after some married person found the instructor of the workshop swoon-worthy (the supposedly highly ethical/honorable instructor encouraged it).

My favorite was an entire yurt being blown across a field by a 50mph gust of wind as 10 women still a bit woozy from sweat lodge chased it down wearing nothing but towels and flip-flops. That one was actually hysterically funny! Thankfully we caught the yurt before it went into the ravine since it had our clothes in it!

Also, someone not having made their prayer-tie circle large enough and having to spend their entire 4-day vision quest sitting against a tree in order to fit inside of the space … luckily they had a tree to lean against!

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

UNSECURED YURT ALERT! Okay, that is way better than the usual tent-kite.