Hello all,
I'd first like to say, I heard some people say they had a great time. However this is the story of the Stranded Partiers!!
First most of the promises for the event fell through big time!! There was a beach, but it was in town, there was supposed to be shuttle buses to and from the beach..... didn't happen. Showers? Where?
Now on to the shuttle bus fiasco.
First it started saturday, with the first shuttle bus @ 8:00pm although the flyer said that one would run from noon saturday till midnight saturday every 30 mins!
The drive was advertised as 1.5 hours but as anyone on the bus can confirm it was closer to 3 hours.
So the party was ok i would rank it a 4 out of 10. loved the decoration in the Psy tent and Lori was wicked.
So the morning rolled around and @ about 6:00am we decided to catch the bus to avoid the crowd, but boy were we wrong.
My mom, girlfriend and myself and one other guy were waiting for the bus, which the first was supposed to run @ 6am. On top of this none of the event staff could tell us how often it was running, some said every hour, some every 2.
This was only the starting. We slept on the side of the road as more and more people showed up. 8am 9am 10am and 200 people later the first bus showes up.
This is where the fun really started, everyone stormed the bus, pushing started and the cops started getting mad at everyone and this only raised tension. The cops were going to have us all line up for each bus. But they were yelling and tension in the air lead me to think some 200 people would take down the cops on the next bus.
So my mom started writing numbers on people's hands to organize the crowd, at that point people calmed down a bit, but the over all vibe was still very angry @ times.
The next bus came @ noonish, with the promise of 4 more coming in the next hour(Which was neveer seen). 40 people left on the school bus.
By 1-2 o'clock people were starting to feel the heat, we arranged the guys to come out with water, we asked for free however since it was a hired water company they were talked down to a dollar.
They came out again an hour later handing out free freezes. Which helped with the heat.
I would like to give thanx to the people that lived on corner for giving us free access to there hose and selling pop, pizza.
And to the cops for cooperating with my mothers number system. I spoke with some of the police and some understanding was displayed by them, however some still saw us as criminals.
Another bus came around 2 at this time we had tagged 331 people with numbers.
Taxis came charging 160 dollars to go to Toronto(split between 4). I saw a hand full of taxis, and about 10-15 people left taking the taxis.
We meet a guy that had no more money and had to get back to catch a train/bus home. I switched numbers with him as I was on the next bus. And i caught the next one.
To add injury to the situation a destiny promoter tried to get one of the buses diverted to the after party, we said no.
However later the promoter spoke to a bus driver and that bus was going to the afterparty, which I was told no one took them up on.
In the end, I was hoping this was going to be a great event, however I got home @ 6:30pm after spending 12 1/2 hours in the scorching sun.
I heard alot of people complaining however I will let they tell there stories instead of getting a rumor milll going.
I would like to ask on the behalf of all the shuttle bus users. What went wrong? Where was Destiny when it was time to leave? Why were we left in the hands of the cops?
I saw a number of news vans show up (New VR. Newsline?) I have still yet to see the news but I have a feeling this will just but another nail against us as trouble makers BLAH BLAH, we have heard this before from the media, but I think alot went down this weekend. I heard something about someone getting arrested, but I would like to hear from
Destiny the story(The Truth) an apology as I am sure some of those 300 people will not trust Destiny in the future.
Destiny why were we left stranded?
I'd first like to say, I heard some people say they had a great time. However this is the story of the Stranded Partiers!!
First most of the promises for the event fell through big time!! There was a beach, but it was in town, there was supposed to be shuttle buses to and from the beach..... didn't happen. Showers? Where?
Now on to the shuttle bus fiasco.
First it started saturday, with the first shuttle bus @ 8:00pm although the flyer said that one would run from noon saturday till midnight saturday every 30 mins!
The drive was advertised as 1.5 hours but as anyone on the bus can confirm it was closer to 3 hours.
So the party was ok i would rank it a 4 out of 10. loved the decoration in the Psy tent and Lori was wicked.
So the morning rolled around and @ about 6:00am we decided to catch the bus to avoid the crowd, but boy were we wrong.
My mom, girlfriend and myself and one other guy were waiting for the bus, which the first was supposed to run @ 6am. On top of this none of the event staff could tell us how often it was running, some said every hour, some every 2.
This was only the starting. We slept on the side of the road as more and more people showed up. 8am 9am 10am and 200 people later the first bus showes up.
This is where the fun really started, everyone stormed the bus, pushing started and the cops started getting mad at everyone and this only raised tension. The cops were going to have us all line up for each bus. But they were yelling and tension in the air lead me to think some 200 people would take down the cops on the next bus.
So my mom started writing numbers on people's hands to organize the crowd, at that point people calmed down a bit, but the over all vibe was still very angry @ times.
The next bus came @ noonish, with the promise of 4 more coming in the next hour(Which was neveer seen). 40 people left on the school bus.
By 1-2 o'clock people were starting to feel the heat, we arranged the guys to come out with water, we asked for free however since it was a hired water company they were talked down to a dollar.
They came out again an hour later handing out free freezes. Which helped with the heat.
I would like to give thanx to the people that lived on corner for giving us free access to there hose and selling pop, pizza.
And to the cops for cooperating with my mothers number system. I spoke with some of the police and some understanding was displayed by them, however some still saw us as criminals.
Another bus came around 2 at this time we had tagged 331 people with numbers.
Taxis came charging 160 dollars to go to Toronto(split between 4). I saw a hand full of taxis, and about 10-15 people left taking the taxis.
We meet a guy that had no more money and had to get back to catch a train/bus home. I switched numbers with him as I was on the next bus. And i caught the next one.
To add injury to the situation a destiny promoter tried to get one of the buses diverted to the after party, we said no.
However later the promoter spoke to a bus driver and that bus was going to the afterparty, which I was told no one took them up on.
In the end, I was hoping this was going to be a great event, however I got home @ 6:30pm after spending 12 1/2 hours in the scorching sun.
I heard alot of people complaining however I will let they tell there stories instead of getting a rumor milll going.
I would like to ask on the behalf of all the shuttle bus users. What went wrong? Where was Destiny when it was time to leave? Why were we left in the hands of the cops?
I saw a number of news vans show up (New VR. Newsline?) I have still yet to see the news but I have a feeling this will just but another nail against us as trouble makers BLAH BLAH, we have heard this before from the media, but I think alot went down this weekend. I heard something about someone getting arrested, but I would like to hear from
Destiny the story(The Truth) an apology as I am sure some of those 300 people will not trust Destiny in the future.
Destiny why were we left stranded?
