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

[castalusoria.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you'd like the more-accurate details of the Red Bull Man story. That one's priceless. Will try to cull together more of them.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Yes! More details! And any other festival-gone-sideways stories you think ought to go into the Cuisinart!

[amushink.livejournal.com]

Mine involves a drunken marine and a site in rural Mexico, an hour into the desert down an unpaved road. Marine making persistent unwanted advances upon a genteel young woman who seemed unequipped to repel his forceful advances. The group joined averted crisis that night but at the cost of listening to his odd hour-long monologue about his cunnilingus proficiency and preferences. The next night to avert a repeat performance, the young woman in question and a friend spiked the marine's multiple drinks with sedatives. Ten times. He was still the last one standing (and talking) long past when the rest of us had retired to our tents. Medically, he was a testament to the physical fitness and biochemical endurance of our armed forces.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Medically, he was a testament to the physical fitness and biochemical endurance of our armed forces.

To say nothing of his...

For just a moment, I tried to come up with a punchline about cunnilingus being somehow beneficial to our national defense, but the persistent unwanted advances part of the story makes that impossible.

[amushink.livejournal.com]

We couldn't expel him because there was no way out and couldn't/wouldn't call the cops because he was a boozy git but hadn't crossed physical lines. Also in Mexico, less interaction with police is better.