hab das im UFD gefunden... find das einfach nur krank...
War ja an vielen Openairs, aber sowas hab ich zum glück nochnie erlebt!
ZitatAlles anzeigenThis is written by a steward at the Reading Festival. It's from http://www.efestivals.co.uk
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i had to find a forum , and at least try to describe to you guys , what its like from my point of view , i have been working at reading now for 7 years , firstly on the towers , and then other stuff. ive seen many things from dudes sellin weed , jumpin fences , robbing tents , rape , robbery , fraud and confiscation of glass bottles by stupid scottish security guards (and u know they drink them ) To evictions , streakers , mass riots and staff being mutilated.
But this year took the piss , and im about to tell u why.
Our Job Description is a "safety Steward" which means , we are there to help you guys , when your lost , f*cked up , Youve been robbed , theres a fire , any first aid (including emergencies) etc etc etc , Basically those dudes with STEWARD (not the oxfam ones) on their jackets , are there to save your ass. u need help of any kind , they are the ones to ask , we are Security with Brains , We control the campsite.
There are 300 stewards (150 working at anytime) , 1700ish security , and 20 police on site workin at anytime , the security are responcible for policing the site and handin over bad bad boys to the police etc , we are responcible for gettin teh security to where they are needs , fire brigade to where their needed , and paramedics , and anything on the campsite ...
On sunday night This year i was working in the yellow Area , on one of the towers , now , ive seen some shit in the past 7 years , and evicted some right tits , who have been stealing from your tents , robbing your stuff , setting fire to your tents , well as i got on this tower in the early hours of the morning , i was informed it had been bottled by campers like 15 mins earlier ...so the staff that were on it , had to go sort themselves out , me and my colleague had been drafted in to help for an hour or so ...
when we got there there were 6 fires in a 1000metre radius from the tower , we have 10 exinguishers and 9 had been used , huge Gas canisteres were being thrown on to fires as well as deoderant cans and camping stoves , so there were 2 or 3 explosions per minute , mushrooms of fire and shrapnel in the darkness
The lights in Yellow had been knocked out by someone throwing toilet roll over the Light strings and Burning it , snapping the wire , and killing the generators curcuits , so its pitch black , all u can see are explosions and 1000`s of people around them . (we are supposed to put these out , even with 1000 rioting kids around them )
During all this , a lad appeared at the bottom of the tower , told my colleague that his girlfriend had been trampled in their tent by 200 rampaging lads , and had a serious back injury , i called in an emergency medic response and told my colleague to keep her still and find where she was to guide the ambulance in,
Pretty bad , all my roads are blocked by fires and explosions and 1000`s of u lot rampaging . i had called our fire rescue to come and deal with one of our larger fires as literrally 1000`s of campers had gathered round. . luckily this engine arrived quickly as it was local , and proceeded to clear a path towared the girl with a back injury to Cut her out of her tent . i was awaiting the ambulance still , bare in mind im gettin bottled 20 metres in the air , in darkness , mid riot .
i look down to watch the security drinkin their F*kin coffee , as my colleague fights his way thought a riot in a steward tabard trying to help this girl and hes gettin missiled ,the tabard is like a target. ... i notice a Lad aged about 15 heading to my tower Clutching his Crotch area , im 20 metres in the air and as he staggers towards the tower i can see the blood literally gushing from his lower chest / genitals . i see him collapse in front of my tower on to a camping chair and im lookin Directly down onto him , i see my colleage ( a 26 yr old grown man) go white in half a second , then the security guard panic , then i see the lad pull his t-shirt up , and trousers down , he moved his hand of his groin , and i saw the blood literlly piss out all over the floor , his nuts were no longer there and there was a hole in his stomach , this lad saw this and just blacked out instantly and fell off the chair ......
My radio is going Nuts with riots everywhere , Fires everywhere , people pushing over ice cream vans , catering stalls setting fire to tents , and THROWING GAS CANISTERS IN FIRES , im trying to get through to my control .... This lad , had walked past a fire that someone had thrown a canister on , and got hit by shrapnel . and now , while your all rioting , hes dying at the bottom of my tower , Gushing blood , and im trying to help him , being bottled for 40 quid for a 12 hour shift.
i managed to get though to control , and request an serious serious proper uber large emergency unconsious casualty with multiple injuries losing blood fast , my fire engine was dealing with my back injury casualty , and we diverted Her ambulance to the lad who now has no sex life to look forward to , at 15.
the girl was cut from her tent and got taken off site within an hour. i spoke to paramedics at 7am who confirmed the lad had been taken offsite too ,and was stable but obviously in hospital .
Dudes , im in my early 30`s and after we got off that tower , me and my colleage , both 6foot odd strappin lads who u wouldnt wanna mess with , were in shock and crying , that poor lad , jesus ........
ive met some great people at festivals in 7 years , saved some lives , made some friends , evicted some twats ,
but my point is this , it was me - or that lad ,
either i had gone and put all those 6 fires out with my 1 extinguisher against 2000 rioting nutters on each fire who would have batered me or worse as i put a fire out a canister exploded and i end up where that lad is , or YOU GUYS get injured cos we cant help you cos you have stretched us to the limit with all your gay stuff.
its your lives ,we are there to help Y0u.
i wont be there to help u guys anymore im afraid , i cant go back after seeing that lad , im still in shock even now. a few of you reading this will laugh and say hahaha good riddance , but ive seen all our experienced staff disapear over the years .. for teh same reason as me . and now u are gettin 16-18 year old kids who have never seen a festival .
i hope u guys read this and at least 1 person listens .
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Und das ganze Chaos aus Campersicht....
ZitatAlles anzeigenTHE LAST NIGHT
So we went back to the campsite passing quite alot of hostile looking security with shields and helmets on. Drank the remainder of our beer, and went to the hill, where it was packed and people were trying to out-do eachother on the crazy scale by going down the hill in different things. The best was a big Biffa bin, it went about 20mph! The guy was knocked out for a while.
Then it was off to the cider tent for a rave, and cider of course. We looked over the yellow campsite to see a MASSIVE inferno with a tree in the middle, it was on fire! We ran over, there were no security, so on went the gas cannisters. People brought tents, gazeebo's, beds...the works. Then they started to climb the tree to get some branches, i cant actually describe how awesome it was to watch people up a tree ripping it to shreds and shaking it, whilst being toasted by explosions every few seconds!
We saw another fire and what looked like security blocking off an entrance to Yellow bubble campsite. So we went to check it out. Sure enough, there were security, getting PELTED by glass bottles, plastic bottles, tent poles, flags, barbecues, chairs, wood...every object under the sun. Apparently they had beaten up a couple of 16 year old kids and had flattened some girls who wanted to get to their tent. This was a full blown fucking riot. Not like last year, this was out of hand. The riot police charged at people intermittently and really were just fucking animals, brutalising people with shiels and steel toe caps. My girlfriend has the bruise the size of Egypt on her leg for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It escalated, we burned down lamp-posts, and soon there was no electricity in the yellow campsite, no lights...nothing. The police kept charging so we got a battering ram in the form of a lamp-post...but they stole it off us and beat us down some more. At about 4.30 in the morning we walked back to Orange where we were camped.
we heard drums coming from the hill...this riot was 100 times more out of hand than the one in yellow, and there were no security in sight! People put picnic benches on the fire, and gazeebos, plus stolen fire extinguishers and gas cannisters. The cider tent where we were raving just a few hours ago was being pulled down and set on fire. It was getting way out of hand.
To tip the night off, everybody broke the windows of the Carling beer stall where you get your crates. Round the back there were 3 FULL REFRIGERATED CONTAINERS of ice cold beer. Before i knew it, the doors were ripped off and there were people handing out free ice cold crates to everybody. I would estimate about 300 people got away with at least one crate, because by the end...there was nothing left in there! 3 full massive containers stolen, looted. Thats tens of thousands of money, taken from under their noses. Security knew they were outnumbered and they stayed well away. I walked out with 2 crates and all my mates did too. So we took home about 20 crates today...for free
I went back to the campsite, passed out, woke up 2 hours later. Then burnt our tents so we didnt have to carry them back with us! I got back at 6ish because of traffic leaving the festival.
It was the most fun out of all the 3 years that I have been. However, i severely doubt that they will get their licence back for Leeds 2006. So I guess I'll see you all at Reading next year!
I also bumped into Boz (Misfit) off here on several occasions and chatted about stuff that I can't remember. He is pretty safe as fuck.
If you read this, thanks If you didn't, Thanks
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Und noch n kleinerer text...
ZitatAlles anzeigenWent back to the tents for the last nights only to see total anarchy and rioting for the last night. the noise was immense and every so often a huuuge explosion would be heard and the campsite would all cheer, people were running round covering each other in toilet paper.
We started a fire but our tent caught fire (well we were gunna burn it anyway dso left it) so these weirdos from the camp next door came shouted at us for ruining the ozone so got the fire marshals to put it out. we booed. so we bought some wood and started the fire with wood, BUT THEY CAME BACK?? told us we were burning it still on the tent and it was still ruining the ozone and that we were stupid and that they didnt pay council tax for us to ruin their fields??? its a festival!
Anyway the marshals put it out again cuz they complained so much.
So we started another fire thsi time exploding canisters of gas and aerosols and everything, but the grand finale was a can of beans on the fire. it took 25 minutes and we lost interest but then all of a sudden they exploded, a huge explosion and it was beautiful!glowing red beans showered into the nighttime and showered down around it. one of my friends caught fire and dived to the ground roling laughing really hard. his jacket now has bean marks all over it!that really pissed off the camp next to us but we didnt care, they got teh fire marshals again (these kids dont no how to have fun) and beacuse i was laughing i pissed them off so they ripped my reading band off my arm!idiots.
my friend passed out in a chair so we wrapped him up with loads of toilet roll like a mummy which scared the shit out of him when he woke up!
But yea it was the best weekend ive ever had at reading, bands were amazing, campsite was even better- Ill never forget it!
Sind die Engländer einfach doof?
Ich mein ok, an den meisten Festivals an denen ich war wurden auch Zelte abgefackelt und n bissl scheiss gemacht... aber sicher nicht in diesem Ausmass...
So ein Chaos hab ich noch niemals auch nur ansatzweise erlebt
