Sneaking in story

[whitehorses]

8 hours ago, blutarsky said:

Impersonation is the sincerest form of flattery 

Yes. And I also wonder whether the Twix story has established the style for the breaking-into-Glasto genre. 

[parsonjack]

He talks of getting the Castle Cary shuttle and alighting at Gate A.  Don't the Castle Cary buses stop at Bath & West where you then change onto a shuttle to Gate A?  Odd that detail is missed....

I nevertheless really want this to be true though.....

[Skelts]

21 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

I nevertheless really want this to be true though.....

You must have missed one of his comments above. Read the first letter of each of the first 21 sentences 😉

[al_coholic]

7 minutes ago, Skelts said:

You must have missed one of his comments above. Read the first letter of each of the first 21 sentences 😉

Yep I am sad enough, that I just did it. Had to type it out though

[Crazyfool01]

16 minutes ago, al_coholic said:

Yep I am sad enough, that I just did it. Had to type it out though

I gave up 😂

[parsonjack]

24 minutes ago, Skelts said:

You must have missed one of his comments above. Read the first letter of each of the first 21 sentences 😉

Ah sh*t 😕

Top storytelling effort though 👍 

[downtherabbithole]

to anyone who still doesn't believe my story on the first page of this thread, I now have extra proof it's real.

I also posted the tale on Reddit and the other day, to my shock, one of the scousers in the story popped up in the comments. He was one of the guys we bumped into near the campervan field and who climbed in with us. So crazy that he came across the story on reddit three years on!
 

 

[Skelts]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

I gave up 😂

Blutarsky is making it up 😂

But, yeah, good effort, enjoyable read. And probably gives us a good insight into how he’d try to sneak in if he had to 🤣

[parsonjack]

1 hour ago, downtherabbithole said:

to anyone who still doesn't believe my story on the first page of this thread, I now have extra proof it's real.

I also posted the tale on Reddit and the other day, to my shock, one of the scousers in the story popped up in the comments. He was one of the guys we bumped into near the campervan field and who climbed in with us. So crazy that he came across the story on reddit three years on!
 

 

No Arcadia in 2019.... 

...and again no mention of the Castle Cary bus dumping folks at Bath & West first. 

Getting wristbands the right colours ahead of opening day is a stretch too. 

Edited April 17, 2022 by parsonjack

[downtherabbithole]

27 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

No Arcadia in 2019.... 

...and again no mention of the Castle Cary bus dumping folks at Bath & West first. 

Getting wristbands the right colours ahead of opening day is a stretch too. 

I wrote this two years after it happened. When breaking in we could hear loud music and see lasers, we assumed it was Arcadia at the time of being outside the festival. Obviously it wasn't in the end. Also maybe the bus did stop off there, maybe it didn't. Like I said, two years and a detail which wasn't relevant to the story. And yes, pretty sure the festival wristband was posted online at the start the week of the festival. We managed to get one a similar colour to it ordered off eBay and delivered to my mate by Thursday morning.... Not sure why I'm even trying to prove this, the fact that some people don't believe it just makes it sweeter that it actually happened. 

[parsonjack]

5 minutes ago, downtherabbithole said:

I wrote this two years after it happened. When breaking in we could hear loud music and see lasers, we assumed it was Arcadia at the time of being outside the festival. Obviously it wasn't in the end. Also maybe the bus did stop off there, maybe it didn't. Like I said, two years and a detail which wasn't relevant to the story. And yes, pretty sure the festival wristband was posted online at the start the week of the festival. We managed to get one a similar colour to it ordered off eBay and delivered to my mate by Thursday morning.... Not sure why I'm even trying to prove this, the fact that some people don't believe it just makes it sweeter that it actually happened. 

Apols for the cross examination....when it comes to tales such as this its most definitely the detail that gives credence or otherwise so thanks for clearing those bits up. 

 

[dogeggs]

1 hour ago, downtherabbithole said:

I wrote this two years after it happened. When breaking in we could hear loud music and see lasers, we assumed it was Arcadia at the time of being outside the festival. Obviously it wasn't in the end. Also maybe the bus did stop off there, maybe it didn't. Like I said, two years and a detail which wasn't relevant to the story. And yes, pretty sure the festival wristband was posted online at the start the week of the festival. We managed to get one a similar colour to it ordered off eBay and delivered to my mate by Thursday morning.... Not sure why I'm even trying to prove this, the fact that some people don't believe it just makes it sweeter that it actually happened. 

I really enjoyed that. Sat here with a dastardly case of sunburn and your story made a great distraction from it.

I’ve never had to go through anything like that. The closest story I have is from the early 2000s. My mate and I, out of simple careless curiosity, wandered into a crew-only area on the way back from the bank ( when it used to be right up the hill behind the pyramid.)

It turns out that crew only area happened to be Worthy Farmhouse itself. And despite meandering in with ease, we suddenly found ourselves trapped in the Eavis’s back yard - with some reluctant security at each refusing to let us back out through either gate. At one end the guy didn’t recognize the (genuine) punter wristbands we had on. The jerk at the other end just flat out refused to let us free. Within 10-15 minutes of walking back and forth, trying to explain what we’d done and getting nowhere - I’d just resigned to the fact we could be stuck in this state of Worthy purgatory for the rest of the weekend…as a last resort we agreed we’d knock on the door, get a right rollicking and face our consequence.

Fortunately after a while of drunken pacing back and forth around the yard, we noticed the gate we stumbled through no longer had the security guy there..so we dashed back out like the pair of rats we are.

[Johnnyseven]

6 hours ago, parsonjack said:

He talks of getting the Castle Cary shuttle and alighting at Gate A.  Don't the Castle Cary buses stop at Bath & West where you then change onto a shuttle to Gate A?  Odd that detail is missed....

I nevertheless really want this to be true though.....

I didn't when I took it.

[Johnnyseven]

4 hours ago, parsonjack said:

No Arcadia in 2019.... 

...and again no mention of the Castle Cary bus dumping folks at Bath & West first. 

Getting wristbands the right colours ahead of opening day is a stretch too. 

To be fair to the guy, it's referred to as Arcadia's Pangia on the 2019 map. Plus if he'd been before he would probably still refer to it as Arcadia, much like I still refer to Jazz World.

[Johnnyseven]

2 hours ago, dogeggs said:

I really enjoyed that. Sat here with a dastardly case of sunburn and your story made a great distraction from it.

I’ve never had to go through anything like that. The closest story I have is from the early 2000s. My mate and I, out of simple careless curiosity, wandered into a crew-only area on the way back from the bank ( when it used to be right up the hill behind the pyramid.)

It turns out that crew only area happened to be Worthy Farmhouse itself. And despite meandering in with ease, we suddenly found ourselves trapped in the Eavis’s back yard - with some reluctant security at each refusing to let us back out through either gate. At one end the guy didn’t recognize the (genuine) punter wristbands we had on. The jerk at the other end just flat out refused to let us free. Within 10-15 minutes of walking back and forth, trying to explain what we’d done and getting nowhere - I’d just resigned to the fact we could be stuck in this state of Worthy purgatory for the rest of the weekend…as a last resort we agreed we’d knock on the door, get a right rollicking and face our consequence.

Fortunately after a while of drunken pacing back and forth around the yard, we noticed the gate we stumbled through no longer had the security guy there..so we dashed back out like the pair of rats we are.

In 1998 in the pissing rain and in a state of inhebriation, me and my mate somehow ended up in the interstage compound. It was dark, nobody was around and we couldn't find the way out. We ended up using a random bit of farm equipment to climb over the fence to get out and back into the main festival!

Edited April 17, 2022 by Johnnyseven

[David_303]

23 hours ago, irnkrtn said:

That's Birmingham City Uni - BCU. UoB has been around since 1900. They'd be ever so sniffy if they saw this 😄

Haha. I work in HE and you're *so* right! 

[gfa]

11 hours ago, downtherabbithole said:

to anyone who still doesn't believe my story on the first page of this thread, I now have extra proof it's real.

I also posted the tale on Reddit and the other day, to my shock, one of the scousers in the story popped up in the comments. He was one of the guys we bumped into near the campervan field and who climbed in with us. So crazy that he came across the story on reddit three years on!
 

 

Not to doubt it instantly but the scouser looks like a burner account - this is his only comment despite his account being a few years old. Bit weird to say the least

[ljb1995]

In 2019 my friend got a number through a friend and arranged to pay for a lift from a pub. 
 

when he turned up at the agreed location (a pub), it was rammed full of people with all their stuff and hoping to do the same. Occasionally a Land Rover would come and it would be a bit of a scramble to get in. 
 

He was there about 7 hours and people were starting to get frustrated so arguing and fighting started and the pub called the police.

One more Land Rover turned up and had one space so my mate managed to pounce and jump in…

As they drove off the police were arriving in the background and the lucky sod got in and had a great weekend

[robsthell]

After many years of being very lucky on the ticket front, me and one of my mates have finally hit a brick wall this year. Some great tales in this thread but short of carrying my body weight in Twix's and hopping over a fence does anyone have any advice on any other means of entry (if one were to be indeed considering such a thing of course...)

[squirrelarmy]

6 minutes ago, robsthell said:

does anyone have any advice on any other means of entry

If it was possible to gain entry illegally no one will be publicly telling you how to. Not only does it risk the festival license the festival organisers will know what to expect from people attempting it. 
 

Im sure there were some volunteering spaces still available. Check those threads for details. 

[robsthell]

26 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

If it was possible to gain entry illegally no one will be publicly telling you how to. Not only does it risk the festival license the festival organisers will know what to expect from people attempting it. 
 

Im sure there were some volunteering spaces still available. Check those threads for details. 

I'm only asking publicly 😉

[LeeHC]

On 4/17/2022 at 12:46 PM, downtherabbithole said:

to anyone who still doesn't believe my story on the first page of this thread, I now have extra proof it's real.

I also posted the tale on Reddit and the other day, to my shock, one of the scousers in the story popped up in the comments. He was one of the guys we bumped into near the campervan field and who climbed in with us. So crazy that he came across the story on reddit three years on!
 

 

Its a cute story but isn't the superfence high solid steel on both layers? 🤔

[ErnestWorthing]

37 minutes ago, LeeHC said:

Its a cute story but isn't the superfence high solid steel on both layers? 🤔

Nope, outer layer is high solid steel then there's a running track for security to drive round then a mesh fence

[LeeHC]

21 minutes ago, ErnestWorthing said:

Nope, outer layer is high solid steel then there's a running track for security to drive round then a mesh fence

Hmm, I'm definitely going to check  🤣

[March Hare]

14 hours ago, LeeHC said:

Hmm, I'm definitely going to check  🤣

Ant excuse to post a pick of the fence (and ME in a Land Rover)