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Bonfires


Guest tommmy

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Bonfires are banned (ie huge massive towering flaming mass of garden material). Small campfires of a certain size are permitted and there are people monitoring these things to keep an eye on things.

There are still campfires allowed at Reading (or were not so long ago!) I'd say that's more of a concern having been there on a Sunday night/Monday morning! Years ago me and a friend had to drive through the campsite (back in the days you parked on site) with kids chucking tents and gas canisters into fires on Monday morning - was like a war zone. In comparison Glasto is 100 times safer!

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Bonfires are a health and safety nightmare at festivals. All those tents, drunk people, children. It's just an accident waiting to happen.

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I know what Tommy is up to but need to say it has happened - just so the records are straight. A tent went right up in flames about 100 feet away from us in Top Webbs Ash many years ago. There were murmurs that the people had done it deliberately, as they were leaving that night (Sunday). I can tell you it was destroyed in a flash, well before any official attempt was made to put it out. I'd say it was more to do with a liquid accelerant than a wood fire though. I love it at dusk when you see the smoke from the fires wafting over the huge campsite. It's like a refugee camp from the 'outside world'.

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Pretty much have been in relation to ten years ago, when there was loads of wood to collect so you could always find a group of people to sit and chat with around a fire.

Now they're few and far-between with people happily nicking any wood they see (including some of ours which was still smouldering at least.)

Was another part of the 'atmosphere' that has died.

If we're talking 'safety', I suspect the Brothers bar should be way ahead of 'fires' on the ban list!

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Tents, drunk people and children are an accident waiting to happen too. We should just ban everything, ban breathing because it can cause people to choke if they don't do it right, or at least ban it until everybody's been sent on a vigorous training course that teaches them how to inhale and exhale safely and responsibly. Ban blinking because it can lead to the dislodging of eyelashes in such a way as to impair vision, ban walking around because it can cause you to fall over, ban being alive because it can cause death. :rolleyes:

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I know what Tommy is up to but need to say it has happened - just so the records are straight. A tent went right up in flames about 100 feet away from us in Top Webbs Ash many years ago. There were murmurs that the people had done it deliberately, as they were leaving that night (Sunday). I can tell you it was destroyed in a flash, well before any official attempt was made to put it out. I'd say it was more to do with a liquid accelerant than a wood fire though. I love it at dusk when you see the smoke from the fires wafting over the huge campsite. It's like a refugee camp from the 'outside world'.

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