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A cheap holiday in other people's misery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-48627574
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
"I spent the next 24 hours crying in my tent," he said. | 9 |
"I was looking forward to my first festival experience, but all I got was mud, cold and pain," he said. | 3 |
The 34-year-old said he made the choice to leave after searching for a toilet "that wasn't flooded or looking like | 3 |
The three-day music event will be headlined by Slipknot, Tool and Def Leppard, but many festival-goers are defiant to d | 2 |
"I was just sliding everywhere," she said. | 2 |
Fans braving the mud have rechristened the event "Drownload", posting pictures of drenched ground online. | 2 |
Music fans have been leaving a festival before a note has even been played - after torrential rain reduced the site to | 1 |
"There's a lot of people in their late teens/early 20s who have travelled miles and it would be a shame for them t | 1 |
Miss Gibben said wheelchairs were getting stuck and friends who stayed overnight had hypothermia. | 1 |
Samantha Gibben, from Stockon-on-Tees, dislocated her hip and left after six hours. | 1 |
One man, who left after injuring himself, described scenes of "impassable muddy sludge everywhere". | 1 |
Thousands descended on Download festival's campsite at Donington Park on Wednesday. | 0 |
Organisers tweeted: "A big thank you to all of you for keeping up the amazing Download spirit. No-one is tougher t | 0 |
Roads on Wednesday were gridlocked as campers arrived at the site in heavy rain. | 0 |
"It's not communicated there would be such a distance between the car park and the campsite." | 0 |
A young man who took up the offer "wasn't in a good way so I said I'd pick him up to make sure he gets a wash and | 0 |
Sullivan-Wren Sheriff, 28, from Nottingham opened up a three-bedroom house to those leaving the campsite. | 0 |
"The stick it out attitude is no excuse for not looking after yourself and putting your health first." | 0 |
"The village was more or less inaccessible for anyone who couldn't walk and the campsites were very slippery alrea | 0 |
John Hawkins, from Grimsby left the Donington Park site Thursday morning after suffering a slipped disc. | 0 |
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 June 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
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