The Governors Ball Music Festival is June 3-5 in New York City. Like many music festivals (as well as fairs, carnivals, and hospitals), the ticket is a wristband. These wristbands are made to be used once, and the only way to get them off is to destroy them. There is a certain subset of people who don’t realize this. Quite a few people got their wristbands in the mail and immediately put them on, not realizing that they would have to wear them for a month. So many that the festival organizers came up with a workaround.
To their credit, the nice people at Governors Ball have made a compromise for all those dummies already sporting too-tight and soon to be too-dirty bands: Those people who want to get out of their fabric prisons can simply cut the bands off and present them—along with a $20 idiot tax—at will call on the day of the fest and receive a new one on site.
See some of the Tweets that tell of the misery at the A.V. Club.
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