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

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Festival organizers' outside-of-festival lives do seem to wait to explode until the festival's up and running.

I have so many weather-related mishap tales... Lots of tents are designed now so they can be put up without being staked, and every year we see the occasional ambitious tent try to fulfill its dreams of becoming a kite.

Everybody was too stoned? Is my regular festival the tamest festival on the circuit, or is it that times have changed, or is it an East Coast/West Coast thing?