Anyone Else Following The Hilarious Fyre Festival Farce? What A HOOT!

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Basically it's the Lapland New Forest scam transposed to the Bahamas, where rich kids (up to £12,000 a ticket!) were promised a luxury festival featuring (woopie-doos!) blink-182 and a few other acts, plus top of the range catering, accommodation, yoga sessions etc. etc. Instead the whole thing's collapsed in chaos, the rich kids are living the refugee lifestyle in tents with nothing to eat but ham and cheese sarnies, while living in fear of being robbed by the locals and ravaged by feral dogs. You'd need a heart of stone not to The twitterati are doing exactly that.

#fyrefestival

 

[Brok]

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The luxury accommodation...

The high-end catering...

 

[clippedgull]

The luxury accommodation...

The high-end catering...

Blatant lies in your earlier post! I see no ham

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Blatant lies in your earlier post! I see no ham

Good point, well made. Tho there were twitter reports of ham being included. Maybe that was in the VIP Package. Or maybe it's hiding under the cheese.

 

[dolphins]

Just been reading about it - that luxury sandwich was at extra cost (for most, anyway). Ticket prices were between $4000 (which is a fair amount) to "upwards of $250000"!!!!
http://ew.com/music/2017/04/28/fyre-festival-accounts-stranded-attendees/

The pictures on there of the catering tent remind me of shots I've seen of refugee camps!

 

[Acker79]

I'm aware of it in a general sense, but not overly familiar with the details. A couple of tweets did amuse me, including Ja Rule's apology for this totally not a scam festival:

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"I truly apologize as this is NOT MY FAULT... but I’m taking responsibility" Yup, making it clear it's not you're responsibility is exactly how you take responsibility.

and this

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[AmexRuislip]

Basically it's the Lapland New Forest scam transposed to the Bahamas, where rich kids (up to £12,000 a ticket!) were promised a luxury festival featuring (woopie-doos!) blink-182 and a few other acts, plus top of the range catering, accommodation, yoga sessions etc. etc. Instead the whole thing's collapsed in chaos, the rich kids are living the refugee lifestyle in tents with nothing to eat but ham and cheese sarnies, while living in fear of being robbed by the locals and ravaged by feral dogs. You'd need a heart of stone not to The twitterati are doing exactly that.

#fyrefestival

Don't know about that THPP, but just seen something that caught my eye, a sign advertising The Lady Boys of Bangkok

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Don't know about that THPP, but just seen something that caught my eye, a sign advertising The Lady Boys of Bangkok

Had an embarrassing time of it a couple of years back when a couple of Indians took over the offie in Preston Drove. As per usual for this time of year, there was a big stack of Lady Boys of Bangkok flyers on the counter. Young lad behind the counter started waxing lyrical about the beautiful ladies and how he was going to go on his day off. Seriously existential moment when I had to break the news or not break the news to him...

 

[studio150]

Not exactly the Woodstock generation

 

[Doc Lynam]

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html?mid=twitter-share-thecut

 

[AmexRuislip]

Had an embarrassing time of it a couple of years back when a couple of Indians took over the offie in Preston Drove. As per usual for this time of year, there was a big stack of Lady Boys of Bangkok flyers on the counter. Young lad behind the counter started waxing lyrical about the beautiful ladies and how he was going to go on his day off. Seriously existential moment when I had to break the news or not break the news to him...

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

The founder of the disastrous Fyre Festival has a history of overpromising ‘elite’ access - The Washington Post
https://apple.news/ApVoZ_Pu1R2KDOHwWiZZstw

Shouldn't this be on the 'ever get the feeling you're being mugged off?' thread?

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Expect the choice was Ham OR Cheese. Cost extra to have both though sure Tarquin and Rupert would spunk another load to 'upgrade'

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

In need of a bit of cheering up today? This is STILL the funniest thing on the interweb

 

[Hammer15]

I see that the organisers have promised to give $1.50 from each ticket to the Bahamas Red Cross.

That's $1.50 from tickets costing thousands of dollars each.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Good point, well made. Tho there were twitter reports of ham being included. Maybe that was in the VIP Package. Or maybe it's hiding under the cheese.

I am not at all convinced that the yellow square stuff is cheese as anyone knows it.

 

[Stat Brother]

I am not at all convinced that the yellow square stuff is cheese as anyone knows it.

As it hasn't been sprayed from a can, to an American that's not only cheese, that's Michelin starred restaurant quality cheese.

 

[desprateseagull]

what went wrong? why were flights cancelled- were they not paid for, by organisers?

Where did all ticket $$$ go??

 

[Jesus Gul]

Watched the Netflix documentary on this. Funny watching all the millennial influencer strife! Felt a bit for the big guy until he started on the blatant fraud whilst on bail. Still he’s bound to do ok on his release.