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To think that if this is a thing now, it's gross

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ExitPursuedBySpartacus · 12/02/2017 08:28

DD went to a concert last night, or was it a gig? She came home saying that she was jumping straight into the shower as she was covered in urine. Apparently the male of the species had been urinating into bottles/cups then hurling the piss filled pots towards the stage, soaking those, like my dd, who had managed to get to the front.

Charming Hmm

Or am I just old?

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ExitPursuedBySpartacus · 12/02/2017 09:14

I was going to say it didn't happen at the ballet the other evening. Although there was an inordinate amount of women going to the toilet throughout the performance.

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babymouse · 12/02/2017 09:14

Not new as others have said. I've also had a point of beer poured down down my top at a gig as well. Wankers.

babymouse · 12/02/2017 09:15

*pint

MyBreadIsEggy · 12/02/2017 09:15

Yep. It's a thing.
Unwritten rule of the regular gig-attendee: Stay away from the front. You'll become a piss/vomit/bottle catcher. Confused I was at a Sum41 gig when I was about 15 and took a Budweiser bottle to the back of the head Hmm

SellFridges · 12/02/2017 09:16

I've only noticed it at big outdoor gigs and festivals. But definitely a thing.

JustSpeakSense · 12/02/2017 09:20

Yes I've heard this is a thing....but it seems to depend on the concert and the type of crowd they draw ConfusedHmm

GeekLove · 12/02/2017 09:24

That would never happen at Infest or WGT.

MixedGrill · 12/02/2017 09:25

It used to be called 'hot leg' when people stood on football terraces: when someone higher up pissed on your leg.

Of course it is gross.

user1478860582 · 12/02/2017 09:28

Oh dear. Can you imagine watching Rigoletto and some urine whizzes past your ear? How awful. Could put one right off your canapés.

How very feral.

pictish · 12/02/2017 09:39

Yes it's a thing and it's an old thing. It come from guys not being arsed to fight through the crowd to the toilet and pissing in a bottle or cup instead. Then launching it into the crowd.
Those who are caught are generally turfed out of their disgusting arse but it can be difficult for the security and other concert goers to see who is responsible.
It is generally accepted as being completely fine to punch a piss launcher in the mouth.

CaoNiMa · 12/02/2017 09:40

It's just blokes who do this, I presume? Filthy animals. Every day my dream of a sex-separated utopia gathers force.

IamalsoSpartacus · 12/02/2017 09:46

Very regular at Donington in the 1990s. I was told never to look up...

Girls sat on boyfriends' shoulders would be specifically targetted as it's pretty selfish - no-one behind can see.

ElsaMars · 12/02/2017 09:48

Lucky, same, big pint of wee chucked over my head when seeing Oasis. I dry heaved for about 10 mins, then realised I could do bugger all about it and cracked on Grin

DriftingDreamer · 12/02/2017 09:50

Revolting.
Put the culprits down...
Too revolting to live...

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ExitPursuedBySpartacus · 12/02/2017 09:57
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specialsubject · 12/02/2017 10:01

Fair enough to target the selfish girl on the boyfriends shoulders, or the.giant iphone, but otherwise - yuk.

Glad it doesnt happen at the opera!

LightastheBreeze · 12/02/2017 10:01

Its happened for years if you stand in the front bit, though probably not at stuff like Little Mix and One Direction where there are mostly young girls Grin
I only like to go to sit down things now I'm old, no piss was thrown and not too many mobile phones when I went to see Leonard Cohen and I'm hoping for the same when I see Bob Dylan.

Also hate the watching of a concert through a mobile phone

Who did she see?

LoveMyLittleSuperhero · 12/02/2017 10:22

Definitely depends on who she saw, and sadly cups of urine while definitely the most disgusting they aren't the worst things I've seen being done. Went to a gig which had to be stopped by security because someone kept making a deodorant flame thrower over the crowd. Thankfully everyone happily ratted him out and he got removed, gig continued.
Saw a girl sat on someone's shoulders twat get pulled off onto the floor then a pit created round her. Thankfully someone pulled her out, sure she was being stupid and inconsiderate but lay on the floor isn't where she needed to be.
Had my fair share of pretty bad injuries from gigs aswell but too identifying and possibly worrying to share. Definitely has something to do with the type of gig I will admit, but stupid behaviour comes hand in hand with alcohol, darkened rooms and loud music.

NarkyMcDinkyChops · 12/02/2017 10:24

Yet one more reason I'm glad I'm really old!

ProfYaffle · 12/02/2017 10:27

Oh God, I remember this from 80s festivals. My mate once got hit by a flying onion Confused Could've been worse ....

ProfYaffle · 12/02/2017 10:30

I'm reasonably sure this was the year of the flying onion

megletthesecond · 12/02/2017 10:35

It's been a thing for 20yrs . This is why I never went in mosh pits.

The stewards do try and stop it though. It's just hard to catch the culprits.

mogloveseggs · 12/02/2017 10:36

Ewwwwww! Envy

VaginaSuprise · 12/02/2017 10:44

Just asked DP about ( provided stages for big gigs). And he said yes, he has had to mop stages covered in wee but even worse was the amount of human poo under the stages. Vile!

ladylambkin · 12/02/2017 10:46

Went to an Arctic Monkeys gig and the journey home was not fun once all that piss was warmed up by the heat in the car Sad