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Hey, Asshole!: Virgin Festival Special Edition

The Who perform at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore. Not pictured: The Who.

You'd think that an outdoor festival with two stages, a DJ tent, a freak show, ample beer supplies, and 40,000 sunstroked fans would be a goldmine of idiotic concert-going behavior ... and you'd be 100% right. Dashiell, the associate editor of our filthy sibling site Fleshbot, pulled his head out of the gutter long enough to attend Saturday's Virgin Festival in Baltimore and provide us with an exhaustive chronicle of the boorishness on display. After the jump, see the world through the eyes of an asshole.

There's a special place in hell reserved for the ladies who sit on shoulders at concerts. It's a little disturbing that we've allowed this to flourish unchecked for so many years, since it really is the ultimate selfish move. Yes, you can see better and your chances of appearing on the Jumbotron have increased exponentially, but a simple acknowledgement that you aren't the only person on the planet would be a nice gesture. The only thing worse than the girl who sits on someone's shoulders and blocks the view of others ...

Dude ... really?

Other examples of reckless foolishness include:

The Careless Toker. High winds mercifully limited our second-hand smoke intake to half a bowl.

The Public Urinator (in blue hat). No, when you gotta go, you do not have to go.

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Balloon Head. Because in a festival environment, it's important to make your profile as large as possible.

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The Flag Waver. Our companion explained this one to us thusly: "It's a homing beacon for morons."

Onstage Cameraman. Do you need to stand directly in front of the band to do your job? We paid to see Brandon Flowers' mustache, dammit!

Then the crowd surfing began. Oh, boy. We're all for getting excited, but how can you deconstruct that Flowersian prose when you're being kicked in the head every twenty seconds by a 14-year-old at his first big boy rock show or a 45-year-old still trying to re-create that one college football game that totally ruled like two decades ago. The only bright spot is that nearly every single one of them was dropped on their head.

If you're over six feet tall and/or 195 pounds, you should not be allowed to ride.

Tragically, all they found of him was his shoe.

Daaaaaad ... you're embarrassing us!

But what about the music, you ask? Oh, we have no idea. We were too busy taking pictures of this guy to enjoy the show.

He spilled beer on us and didn't apologize. Thanks a lot, asshole.

Previously: Blogsmacked: Skeletor, Non-Naked Flea Spotted At Virgin Festival

4:53 PM on Tue Sep 26 2006
By Dashiell Bennett
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  • How come I was expected to see more 18 year old girls...this was advertised as the virgin festival....oh wait...

  • Since it was held at Pimilco, home of the always-disgusting Preakness, I would think that public urination would be a requirement.

  • I think women refer to crowd surfing the molestotron ride.

  • Crowd surfing should have gone away like Grunge. There's no point to it anymore, especially when I've even seen it at Coldplay shows. Give me a break.

  • Crowd surfing should only be tolerated in one situations-

    As a means of escape when 5'1" girls are being destroyed by the crush of humanity during a show. I'm a 6'2" guy, and I've been to shows where it was so tight, I could lift my feet off the floor and stay suspended. If you're a dude, suck it up and deal. If your a girl, however, get thee into crowd-surfing position, and hold your shirt down.

  • Crowd surfers are assholes, each and every one. There are few greater pleasures than punching one in the kidney as he drives his heel into the eyesocket of the girl next to you.

  • .....We managed to dump one crowd-surfing asswipe face-first down into a floor full of broken glass and God knows what else, during the 1987 GNR/Aerosmith show. That was a most excellent moment! Guy had to be helped out to an ambulance by security. Turd.

    .....The way to deal with the shoulder-riding chick in front of you is ye olde tube of icy-hot squirted down the butt-crack. They'll likely kick the shit out of the guy's chest who's holding them up, too!

  • this is the most inspiring thing i've seen all week. dude needs to take that camera behind the wheel.

  • Girl on shoulders can be forgiven if girl flashes boobs at band. Extra forgiveness if she flashes crowd as well. Fully forgiven if her boobs aren't sagging.

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