The locked door in the video is the airline gate/exit to the tarmac. Locking and chaining it was probably the best decision of the whole debacle, considering the departure lounge was full of angry, tired, cheated attendees who had probably spent too long in the sun drinking free rum before it ran out.
Unfortunately the international news organizations have reported everything about this verbatim from twitter and reddit, where the internet trolls sitting at home in the US decided to spice things up on thursday night with all sorts of false and malicious claims agains local residents (looting, detention, violence, feral dogs, sharks... the list goes on). No due diligence at all in the so-called reporting. And where are the basic facts... how many people actually arrived? how many were scheduled to arrive? These are not hard to discern - just check the number of swift/charters that were scheduled or arrived. Looks like 6 or 8 plane 737 planes at most arrived on Thursday.... that's at most 1000 people.
Funny that there seem to only be a couple of dozen photos and videos of the event in circulation, given the number of cameras in attendance. There was someone one photo of a few attendees making the best of it on the beach friday morning. "it could be better in the bahamas", but easier to gripe and complain.
The never ending talk of the cost ("up to 250000") also fails to take into account that most paid 1500 or less. How this was going to pay for infrastructure and band fees, in addition to flights, food, etc is anyone's guess. A weekend trip from miami with flight, basic accommodation, food and ground transport easily runs >$1500 without the music festival, or the need to procure mattresses(!) for each attendee.
Hopefully the aftermath of this is not left on the local government - the "organizers" better be held responsible to deal with their detritus... but if they are actually refunding the attendees, can't imagine that will happen.
afewfacts says...
The locked door in the video is the airline gate/exit to the tarmac. Locking and chaining it was probably the best decision of the whole debacle, considering the departure lounge was full of angry, tired, cheated attendees who had probably spent too long in the sun drinking free rum before it ran out.
Unfortunately the international news organizations have reported everything about this verbatim from twitter and reddit, where the internet trolls sitting at home in the US decided to spice things up on thursday night with all sorts of false and malicious claims agains local residents (looting, detention, violence, feral dogs, sharks... the list goes on). No due diligence at all in the so-called reporting. And where are the basic facts... how many people actually arrived? how many were scheduled to arrive? These are not hard to discern - just check the number of swift/charters that were scheduled or arrived. Looks like 6 or 8 plane 737 planes at most arrived on Thursday.... that's at most 1000 people.
Funny that there seem to only be a couple of dozen photos and videos of the event in circulation, given the number of cameras in attendance. There was someone one photo of a few attendees making the best of it on the beach friday morning. "it could be better in the bahamas", but easier to gripe and complain.
The never ending talk of the cost ("up to 250000") also fails to take into account that most paid 1500 or less. How this was going to pay for infrastructure and band fees, in addition to flights, food, etc is anyone's guess. A weekend trip from miami with flight, basic accommodation, food and ground transport easily runs >$1500 without the music festival, or the need to procure mattresses(!) for each attendee.
Hopefully the aftermath of this is not left on the local government - the "organizers" better be held responsible to deal with their detritus... but if they are actually refunding the attendees, can't imagine that will happen.
On INSIGHT: Festival chaos should have been avoided
Posted 29 April 2017, 10:24 p.m. Suggest removal