i hope you're alright.

this is why i'll never go to a festival where you camp.

I actually thought the general level of cuntery was down this year, but there were still some prize specimens about. Sadly no matter where you go people are scum.

where were you camped? I seen a few scallys wondering round the camp site by the other stage!

Same thing happened to my mate at Leeds festival last year, the security there were pathetic as well :-(

That must be horrible, particularly someone being in your tent at night.

This kind of thing is why I don't like camping at larger festivals, the last time I went to Reading there were so many imbeciles around it was quite frightening, I just had to guard our tent with a mallet. Not much fun at all.

but why is your description of events so different to you post on efests?

a few years ago. it was a thoroughly rubbish thing to happen and there was no hope of getting it back.
luckily we were with some generous friends who looked after us for the weekend.
i would have loved to have caught them doing it, though it probably would have been quite a sight to see me chasing after them in my boxer shorts at 3 in the morning.

to make a trap.. maybe leaving your tent slightly open.. and pretending to be asleep.. and then when someone comes in and tries to steal your stuff hitting them with a mallet, rendering unconcious, then putting them in a portaloo and tipping it over?

and all they left was this T shirt!

The guy goes to a lot of trouble every year to put on a festival for the (operative word) public.

He doesn't personally groom every person who buys a ticket, so why exactly should he be blamed for your misfortune?

I feel sorry for you, and I can relate to the horrible feeling of being robbed, but blaming one man is a bit unfair.

ps. If you work in a job that you hate, surely you're not so sad at being made redundant?

They can't go round kicking out ppl that look like scallies.

And they are hardly going to guard your tent for you, that would be unfair on all the other punters.

Fucking cunts.

At least 150 people got dry bummed by some inbred twats who just hit the camp on the first night.

But I got over it and got dressed up as a cowboy after I reported it at 9am the following morning.

Everyone deals with it in different ways, I suppose.

It was horrible.

I just remember waking up and seeing my tent door open and my clothes all lying around in the porch bit.

People are just buying tickets to the festivals so that they can rob people.

was at Bestival. I got challenged by security a couple of times going into my own tent. It was good to know that they were keeping an eye out.

are we going to get kidnapped?

and you had a good time there. Completely horrible and I feel bad that I was complaining about the person camped near us with an annoying laugh.

I guess it's just (bad) luck really with these things are there areas that are more notorious for this kind of shitty behaviour other than the pyramid stage.

Write Eavis a letter though, don't be too harsh to him and you might get something out of it ;)

Really disappointing to hear as well. I was under the impression it was lovely this year with not much trouble. I don't blame you for hating it and Eavis one bit.

really sorry to hear that.
Cannot believe the audacity of some people.
I think it would be worth writing if for nothing else to highlight the stewards apparent blase attitude towards towards the whole thing.
I am glad you went on to have a good time though.

as I was when I read it on eFestivals. I've been robbed there a few times in the past, although not recently. We ALWAYS got robbed when we camped above the Pyramid stage.

But like I said previously, I don't think you can blame Eavis and the festival for idiots. Put 150000 people in a small space and there'll be some. I didn't blame the V organisers when some idiot torched a friend's tent by chucking a gas canister on a fire...

on everyone that buys a ticket. how is it glastonbury's fault that you got robbed?

where did you camp out of interest?

you have a boyfriend? :(

when we were all students. They came in while we were sleeping and took our wallets and took the cash out of them.

They cleared out loads of tents that weekend in the area we were in. It pissed me off a fair bit, I can tell you.

its crap to read stuff like this, but when festivals get so mainstream, it attracts some pretty crappy people.

I'm never going to Leeds or Reading again after some of the shit I've seen there and I would never think of going to Glasto' anyway.

Stick to the quieter festivals, they always have better music on anyway.

ATP, Glade, Bloc are probably the only ones I'd go to.

Similar thing happened to me and my friend at Bestival last year. Woke up to find her bag (with phone, camera, purse) missing from tent. We walked out to find other things from the bag strewn in the grass on the way to the path. Police were as helpful as they could be, but nothing found. What was sad, perhaps especially at Bestival, is that we then we felt suspicious and on our guard for the rest of the time. Maybe there's a tipping point in size/profile for festivals after which you might as well be in any public space with all the attendant risks.