You ever hear a story where you don’t know whether the appropriate reaction is to laugh or cry? Well, an incident that allegedly happened at Download Festival yesterday has us in a moral quagmire.
Apparently, at Download Festival in Melbourne yesterday @KeepnTabs73 of Wall of Sound, ran into two men with a plan to scatter their departed friends’ ashes during Slayer’s set.
Unfortunately, those two men, impossibly inebriated, believed they were at Slayer, but were actually watching UK punk duo Slaves.
The man sharing the story explained that he tried to convince the pair that they were at the wrong stage, but they ignored him and continued to scatter their mate’s ashes anyway.
To make matters worse, the ashes that they through in the air landed smack-bang in the face of an unsuspecting security guard. You can read the full account below:
“On a funny but sombre note. I spoke with two guys very early in the day at the Slaves show. One of them had a large plastic clip seal of what looked like grey cocaine in his pocket. I quizzed him more. He said it was his dead mates ashes.
WTF. His deceased mate was a massive Slayer fan. I attempted to tell my new very inebriated friend that this stage was set for a UK punk band, Slaves, not the metal gods that were headlining some 8 hours later, Slayer.
Suffice to say, he didn’t understand as he proceeded to throw said ashes in the air unfortunately 50% of his bbq’d friend landing in the face of unsuspecting security guy. I laughed, security coughed the two guys went back to the bar. After telling security what had just happened, well, the look on his face made my day. True story lol.”
https://twitter.com/KeepnTabs73/status/1105286852607565824
If only the pair had scattered their friends’ ashes to the triumphant sounds of ‘Ashes’ by Ghost. We’re sure that his eminence Cardinal Copia would’ve escorted their departed friend to the gates of heaven personally.
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