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I was reading tweets about Roo this year (in sadness because I'm not there), and apparently there's a whole row in Pod 10 that's filled with security and roped off so no one can get in.
Not many other things would require that kind of attention, sadly...
Has anyone heard anything about this? It would be such a sad thing.
Still, one of the most haunting things I've ever seen in my life was on Friday morning in 07... we were walking to the James Blood Ulmer and Tortoise shows to start the day, and we walk by as a golf cart is speeding away (as fast as a golf cart can) with a guy laying in it and some meds attending to him. As they passed us, they stopped behind us and started saying things to suggest he had died. Come to find out, it was the one publicized death at Roo that year. Yep, I'd just seen someone die at my favorite place on the planet.
I didn't hear anything about it. On a somewhat related note, was it just me or did there seem to be far more people passing out yesterday than normal? I don't think I can recall ever seeing anyone pass out and have to be taken out of the crowd on a Thursday before. I usually don't start seeing many people that messed up until late in the weekend. Yesterday, I saw no less than 6 people having to be carried out during shows. I'm not sure if it was the heat, the crowds, or something else.
Be careful out there, people. Hydrate and go easy on everything. It's great to have a fun time, but no one wants to see you get hurt.
The annual fun at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. hit a sad note on the opening night of the 10th annual event.
The Coffee County Sheriff's Department released a statement that a 32-year-old female from Pittsburgh, Pa. was found dead by friends at her campsite on the festival's 700-acre grounds.
Her body has been sent to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy. Her name is being withheld pending notification of family.
holy shit - stay safe out there people. i just looked at the weather - yikes. add in a few party favors of the wrong sort and too much booze... big problems.
Coffee County Sheriff and other officials at the command post at Bonnaroo confirm a 32-year-old woman from the Pittsburgh, PA., area has died at the festival.
The woman's body was found deceased by her campsite by friends, according to the Cofee County Sheriff's Department.
The body has been sent to the State Medical Examiner's office for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Her name has not been released pending notification of family members.
This is a breaking news story. The Tennessean will provide more information as it becomes available.
The sidebar on that article has the weather. It says the temperature feels like 106 degrees. Seriously drink water and eat plenty of corn. Keep your body cool and hydrated, there is a lot of festival left!
Post by opieleptic on Jun 10, 2011 18:03:04 GMT -5
Probably more Roo'kies than other years. I had to sell my ticket to a girl, asked her who she was going to see, and she said she didn't even know who was playing...If I had to guess, she also didn't know what to bring with her.
7/2 - Lotus, MiMoSa, The New Deal, The Glitch Mob 7/3 - Red Rocks and Blue II w/ Umphrey's Mcgee and Easy Star All Stars 7/4 - Umphrey's Mcgee Boulder, CO
And wow, you're like a walking, talking infomercial to turn people away from Pearl Jam and Ohio State, aren't you? Before you started posting here I quite liked Pearl Jam and was indifferent towards OSU, now I find myself wishing that Eddie Vedder falls down a mine shaft or that Columbus is infested with locusts
this morning (3:30 am) my boyfriend was run over by a security guard on a cart and had his neck broken. He's now up in nashville at the vanderbilt hospital.
the guy on the cart drove away and just left my BF.
this happened at centeroo.....did anyone see anything?
There were definitely way more people passing out this year. It seems to me that a lot of people just did not know what they were getting themselves into going Bonnaroo. So many really young kids were being so irresponsible. I even met a kid who was just sleeping on the ground next to his car with no shade the whole weekend because he didn't know it was a camping festival, I guess he thought they provided lodging and beds for you? I ran out of water so quickly because none of the young kids who were wasted out of their minds at 3 PM in the Tennesee heat had any of their own, and I wasn't about to let them pass out/die. I had a great time this weekend but there were a lot of times where I got really really frustrated at the crowd.
June is just too effing hot in TN. It's the main reason I haven't gone the last couple years. I just wonder what it's going to take for some serious action to be taken. At some point, some official is going to decide it's too dangerous, and they are going to be forced to make some changes.
June is just too effing hot in TN. It's the main reason I haven't gone the last couple years. I just wonder what it's going to take for some serious action to be taken. At some point, some official is going to decide it's too dangerous, and they are going to be forced to make some changes.
Every summer it gets hotter and Bonnaroo doesn't seem to want to improve the situation with more mist, shade and infrastructure. Yeah, buyer beware, but really, Bonnaroo does not do an adequate job announcing to the public the real conditions of the festival. Fact is, the weather at Bonnaroo would cause most people to stay inside in the AC or shade during the heat of the day and Bonnaroo encourages people to expose themselves.
Really, its going to take a lawsuit or a catastrophe. Perhaps both.
Post by mizvalentine on Jun 12, 2011 14:27:10 GMT -5
So truly terribly sad. As a woman from Pittsburgh in my 30s I had to make a lot of reassuring calls to family when the news broke. The heat was brutal and the dust was excruciating... As an asthmatic I was about 15 mins from leaving Fri because I just couldn't catch my breath. Rest and albuterol did the trick but if I wasn't so well prepared and known what to do and fast, it could've been ugly. As it is I have two ugly bands of bonna-rash on my ankles and will prob need a breathing treatment in the next day or so. I had an amazing experience, but it truly tested my limits. I'm an experienced camper AND knew what to expect (thanks to y'all) but I feared deeply for so many of these young kids. I can think of about twenty simple, cheap things Roo could do to make a huge difference....
I will say ice could be cheaper, and more shade would help (in the form of mist tents or just plain tents for people to stand under, if you don't like the mud), but I've never once bought water from there. There is free water, and getting it has never been a problem for me, with the exception of I think Friday in 09.
Having just gotten in from my first 'Roo, I did notice a lot of people passing out from the heat. I got an intense sunburn that the med tent didn't know how to treat (hence my early departure) but I handed out approximately a case of water and 8 electrolyte packets. I do feel like they need more things geared toward the crowds: more mist tents (at least two were broken this weekend) and more filtered water stations. By day 2, the only 50% of the taps worked at those stations and the wait was about an hour long. If you only carry around a Nalgene and you're on empty, that line can be deadly.
Post by setyoufree on Jun 12, 2011 15:58:10 GMT -5
had a dude in the medical tent when I was in there crying because a bug flew in his ear, and was pissed when they wouldnt immediately help him despite the people being fed iv's, and legitimately needing care. I havent had a problem getting water the whole weekend, dont think i've waited longer than 10 minutes, the extra wells have served me greatly, if I saw one was packed, the next wasnt terribly far away
had a dude in the medical tent when I was in there crying because a bug flew in his ear, and was pissed when they wouldnt immediately help him despite the people being fed iv's, and legitimately needing care.
I saw something similar in Pod 1--girl had a nasty hang nail and wanted them to snip that thing off. They handed her a band aid and some antibacterial gel. The medic was talking about how staph infections were relatively common.
I was only wanting some Solarcaine or whatever. A sunburn with blisters (blisters with dust inside them, so gross) is usually a bad thing.