Tatters what? who? how?

[Respectfatfrog]

HI guys

I have heard a few mentions of tatters from what I can understand these guys are meant to wait till everyone has gone and can have a rummage through whats left.

is it true these guys don't wait?

do they have to take the tent down they just rummaged through?

also how much stuff do they get? is it families or is it a business?

please understand i'm not interested in becoming one just curious about them 

[Hugh Jass]

Once when staying late on a Monday a witnessed a group of feral children wandering around the campsite scavenging. It was like something out of a post-apocalyptic film. One of them, no older than 10, was carrying a full and unopened crate of Red Bull.

[kaytee...]

I know of some people who went round collecting dumped items after Creamfields. The amount of beer cans they collected filled the entire garden patio. 

[sloseph]

some fairly irritating people camped near us appeared to abandon their lovely brand new 6 man Quecha tent, I really wanted to take it home with me but I wasn't sure how I could determine it had truly been abandoned

we left the campsite at 10:30 so I didn't think that was late enough to start calling dibs on other tents

[Smeble]

I was on site the week after last years festival and there were people going through tents left behind.

Tents do need to be cleared before they can be taken down though,  somebody has to do it.

a mate of mine works a lot of festival and he says security get most of the left behind booze, nobody else gets a look in, 

if I was minded not to take booze home with me I'd rather give it to the volunteers than the employed security staff.

[Michaels denim shorts]

My tent is tatted from last years beautiful days. Taken down Monday night when all the public had left the site. It did have broken elastic in 1 of the poles so I guess that's why it was left (other than the horrendous weather) but that was easily sorted, it's a £150 tent 

The amount of shite people leave behind is quite astonishing. From unopened alcohol, sometimes full crates, to expensive camping equipment people leave due to sheer laziness. There was even a full size pool table left in a tent with an actual wooden double bed. Christ knows how they got it there in the first place 

[LeeGalvin]

Though of course everyone has signed the pledge this time, so nothing will be left behind...

[Respectfatfrog]

13 minutes ago, Michaels denim shorts said:

My tent is tatted from last years beautiful days. Taken down Monday night when all the public had left the site. It did have broken elastic in 1 of the poles so I guess that's why it was left (other than the horrendous weather) but that was easily sorted, it's a £150 tent 

The amount of shite people leave behind is quite astonishing. From unopened alcohol, sometimes full crates, to expensive camping equipment people leave due to sheer laziness. There was even a full size pool table left in a tent with an actual wooden double bed. Christ knows how they got it there in the first place 

credit for the double bed to be fair

[Michaels denim shorts]

2 minutes ago, Respectfatfrog said:

credit for the double bed to be fair

Yeah but they could have taken it home again, don't leave it for the poor sods working the festival to clear up 

[jparx]

16 minutes ago, LeeGalvin said:

Though of course everyone has signed the pledge this time, so nothing will be left behind...

Ahh, the almighty pledge. I can't wait to see no one peeing on the land and zero litter in the Pyramid field.

[sloseph]

you cynical bastards

[mr gumby]

Just now, jparx said:

Ahh, the almighty pledge. I can't wait to see no one peeing on the land and zero litter in the Pyramid field.

Damn, wouldn't it be nice? Just once, to walk to the gate on Monday past fields with nothing but patches of yellowed grass? 

[gerardfenton18]

i think dolly got caught trying to "tatt" a dog

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/dolly-parton-offers-to-adopt-abandoned-glastonbury-dog-named-in-her-honour-9589865.html

 

[SwedgeAntilles]

They're what Hobbits have for 2nd breakfast 

[gerardfenton18]

in all seriousness i leave too early to do this however if i had the luxury of leaving the site at 4 - 5pm on Monday i'd probably come home with a nice tent or 2 but because i leave too early 11-12,

you cant be sure whether people are just away getting fed or not or having a walk around the campsite.

[mr gumby]

Just now, SwedgeAntilles said:

They're what Hobbits have for 2nd breakfast 

With a brace of coneys. 

[jonodillieono]

At Bestival last year loads of Oxfam people go out and get as much alcohol as they can (after a certain time which i cant remember) and they have a big BBQ in the oxfield sharing out all the alcohol on Monday night.

I've always wanted to go tatting but I never stay around long enough for it

[Respectfatfrog]

6 minutes ago, Michaels denim shorts said:

Yeah but they could have taken it home again, don't leave it for the poor sods working the festival to clear up 

Totally get that seems a few on here wouldn't mind doing it them selves nothing wrong with it as long as people have gone home and not for a walk.

[stuartbert two hats]

6 hours ago, mr gumby said:

Damn, wouldn't it be nice? Just once, to walk to the gate on Monday past fields with nothing but patches of yellowed grass? 

Are you the last to leave?

[ian the worm]

Its after six pm on Monday for tatting. All ticket holders should be offsite by then.

Before then its technically theft.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

23 minutes ago, ian the worm said:

Its after six pm on Monday for tatting. All ticket holders should be offsite by then.

Before then its technically theft.

Is there still shed loads of tents to be had after 6pm?

[ian the worm]

6 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Is there still shed loads of tents to be had after 6pm?

Yes. Especially the shitty looking ones. I've always been too knackered to bother getting one.

[lucyginger]

We don't leave site til late Monday afternoon and usually do a little bit of tatting. Or wombling, some people call it. We'd never take things if we thought there was a chance the person would come back! We've just found beer, packets of biscuits, cans of pop, that's it really. Would never take a tent (or anything else) if it wasn't definite the people had left it. 

It's not an intentional thing we do, we don't wait just to tatt, we just don't leave til Monday afternoon so collect beer if its there! 

[Respectfatfrog]

48 minutes ago, lucyginger said:

We don't leave site til late Monday afternoon and usually do a little bit of tatting. Or wombling, some people call it. We'd never take things if we thought there was a chance the person would come back! We've just found beer, packets of biscuits, cans of pop, that's it really. Would never take a tent (or anything else) if it wasn't definite the people had left it. 

It's not an intentional thing we do, we don't wait just to tatt, we just don't leave til Monday afternoon so collect beer if its there! 

can t see why you wouldn't