Subsequent time you see folks diving within the mud at a music competition, don’t be part of them. And if the water from the bottle filling stations is off in coloration or style, don’t drink it.
It might include poop.
That’s one of many many haunting classes of Woodstock ’99, the disastrous music competition that’s the topic of a brand new Netflix sequence “Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99.”
The port-a-potties overflowed close to the showers, resulting in a plumbing disaster and tons of “mud” that festival-goers fortunately dove into and slathered over their our bodies. Besides it wasn’t simply mud. It was a mixture of mud and poop.
“A number of mud-covered folks, grinning ear to ear, stopped to pose for footage,” stated leisure reporter David Blaustein, who lined the occasion for radio and was featured within the documentary. “I can solely think about the look on their faces once they discovered they spent hours rolling round in shit.”
It even received into the water stations.
Whereas the fecal nightmare was one of the crucial memorable components of the sequence, it was not even the worst a part of the occasion, which was marked by not less than three deaths and a number of sexual assaults.
Promoter John Scher tried to downplay the assaults.
“Woodstock was like a small metropolis, you understand?” he stated within the Netflix documentary. “All issues thought-about, I’d say that there would most likely be as many or extra rapes in any sized metropolis of that… however it wasn’t something that gained sufficient momentum in order that it triggered any on-site points, apart from, in fact, the ladies it occurred to.”
Blaustein described Scher’s degree of denial as “Trumpian.”
“I nearly really feel dangerous for him,” Blaustein stated through electronic mail. “I wager if he got here out and stated, ’I fucked up, and I’m sorry,′ the victims and their households may get some closure or satisfaction. I feel he owes them that.”
Blaustein additionally identified that if Scher believed the occasion was like a small metropolis, he ought to’ve staffed it accordingly.
“In the event that they knew they might have the inhabitants of a small metropolis, why didn’t they safe the occasion like a small metropolis, you understand, with ample regulation enforcement and correct infrastructure?” Blaustein requested. “If it was a small metropolis and he was the mayor, he most likely would’ve been arrested for prison negligence.”
“Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99” is presently streaming on Netflix.
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