Anyone ever lost ticket outside the festival...?

[Mr Ploppy]

We make regular trips back and forth to the car during our stay at Glastonbury, but has anyone ever gone out to the car park and then lost their ticket?

Did you get back in?

[Abbathehorse]

We make regular trips back and forth to the car during our stay at Glastonbury, but has anyone ever gone out to the car park and then lost their ticket?

Did you get back in?

[mouth]

No I haven't, but at Reading Festival one year, I found one. I parked up, got out of the car and it was right there on the floor in front of me. I did feel sorry for the poor bugger who had dropped it, but there was no way of tracing whose ticket it was, so I sold it to a tout. Did me a huge favour actually cos I was really skint that year.

That's another reason why I am a big fan of Glastonbury's ticket system. As the tickets have your photo on, nobody else can use them, so I would like to think that if you did lose your ticket, whoever found it would hand it in?

[shameabouththelevs]

No I haven't, but at Reading Festival one year, I found one. I parked up, got out of the car and it was right there on the floor in front of me. I did feel sorry for the poor bugger who had dropped it, but there was no way of tracing whose ticket it was, so I sold it to a tout. Did me a huge favour actually cos I was really skint that year.

[brettredmayne]

I dropped my wallet with my ticket and my pass out in it. Lucky for me some nice person handed it in.

[Abbathehorse]

Hmm... no way of tracing legitimate owner eh? Skint? Tout?

Hmmm........ (thoughtful scratching of imaginary beard)

[shameabouththelevs]

Well, I could have gone and handed it in at the box office, but if the original owner of the ticket went to claim it, there is absolutely no way that they would have traced it back to him/her. Assuming that they had the capabilities to do this, they would not have had the inclination.

I don't feel guilty for my actions! I made a tidy profit at someone's expense, but if I hadn't Mean Fiddler would have made the profit at their expense instead.

[Abbathehorse]

Presumably the Mean fiddler had already made their profit when they sold the ticket?

I'm not saying you should feel guilty, wouldn't presume to tell anyone what to do, but making out that you've denied a big corporation a little piece of their profits is bullshit! Good on ya anyway, I'm as dishonest as the day is long.

[Leo ™]

Ha ha, I'm not trying to justify what I did. I'd do it again, but there is nothing dishonest about it. I stand by what I said. If I could have got the ticket back to its original owner, I would have, but I couldn't!!!

[scaryclaireyfairy]

i've never lost my ticket at glastonbury, but i did at leeds one year somewhere between the coach drop off and where we set up camp. i only realised when i went to get my pass for the arena that it'd gone, along with my coach ticket home. it had been raining all afternoon and we'd walked miles. i was sobbing and panicking and turning my tent upside down praying it'd turn up but it didn't. i retraced my steps but there was already so much muddy trampled litter underfoot that it felt hopeless and i gave up after an hour cos it was getting dark. then my odd wiccan friend held my hands, went "right!" and strode off into the darkness with much purpose. half an hour later she was back clutching a soggy, muddy, torn envelope with my tickets in it. she reckons she went looking for my energy or somesuch. she's still my f*cking hero.

and no, she hadn't nicked it in the first place before anyone says it!

Edited March 23, 2009 by scaryclaireyfairy

[LostRiot]

Last year my friend went out and lost his ticket.

Basically the way he got back in was firstly he queued for about 2 hours

then they got him to go on the internet and look up his reg number, from his email.

They matched his photo, asked him if he had the card he bought the ticket with, he didn't but knew who bought the ticket. They also asked him loads of questions about where he was camped inside, who he was camped with, which bands he had seen, where he had eaten etc. the names of the other people who had tickets bought at the same time as him, they went on google maps and asked him to name a road near his house, then asked him to find that road, then go from that location to his house. There was probably more, that I can't remember.

At the end they gave him another wristband round his other wrist (the retard band as we called it) then let him in.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

gawd bless the internets!

[BeddyDriver]

We found 2 tickets in the car park in 2005. Literally stepped out of the car onto them.

Presumed it would be someone around us but shouted and asked everyone. Think people thought we were trying to sell em though !

Anyways in the end we resorted to handing them into security staff at the gate.... Wasnt going to stand there forever trying to give them back !

Edited March 24, 2009 by BeddyDriver

[pezzypops]

Last year my friend went out and lost his ticket.

Basically the way he got back in was firstly he queued for about 2 hours

then they got him to go on the internet and look up his reg number, from his email.

They matched his photo, asked him if he had the card he bought the ticket with, he didn't but knew who bought the ticket. They also asked him loads of questions about where he was camped inside, who he was camped with, which bands he had seen, where he had eaten etc. the names of the other people who had tickets bought at the same time as him, they went on google maps and asked him to name a road near his house, then asked him to find that road, then go from that location to his house. There was probably more, that I can't remember.

At the end they gave him another wristband round his other wrist (the retard band as we called it) then let him in.

[benissright]

i've never lost my ticket at glastonbury, but i did at leeds one year somewhere between the coach drop off and where we set up camp. i only realised when i went to get my pass for the arena that it'd gone, along with my coach ticket home. it had been raining all afternoon and we'd walked miles. i was sobbing and panicking and turning my tent upside down praying it'd turn up but it didn't. i retraced my steps but there was already so much muddy trampled litter underfoot that it felt hopeless and i gave up after an hour cos it was getting dark. then my odd wiccan friend held my hands, went "right!" and strode off into the darkness with much purpose. half an hour later she was back clutching a soggy, muddy, torn envelope with my tickets in it. she reckons she went looking for my energy or somesuch. she's still my f*cking hero.

and no, she hadn't nicked it in the first place before anyone says it!

[ivan]

A few years ago , at Pedestrian Gate B , inside the fence but before you get to the ticket check.

We were wandering back to the car , when we passed a group of lads about 16-18 stood the right

with one lad sat on the floor going thru everything.

The lad was busy emptying his rucksack and all I could hear was his mates saying !

"You can't have lost it , keep looking ! "

[Mr Ploppy]

Last year my friend went out and lost his ticket.

Basically the way he got back in was firstly he queued for about 2 hours

then they got him to go on the internet and look up his reg number, from his email.

They matched his photo, asked him if he had the card he bought the ticket with, he didn't but knew who bought the ticket. They also asked him loads of questions about where he was camped inside, who he was camped with, which bands he had seen, where he had eaten etc. the names of the other people who had tickets bought at the same time as him, they went on google maps and asked him to name a road near his house, then asked him to find that road, then go from that location to his house. There was probably more, that I can't remember.

At the end they gave him another wristband round his other wrist (the retard band as we called it) then let him in.

[theleedslads]

I did at T IN THE PARK in 2007!

Cant begin to describe how gutted i felt having driven up from Leeds, and was on a budget anyway so wouldnt have been able to buy off a tout, but asked a random steward if anyone had handed one in, there was loads of mud so just thought it had been trampelled in the mud never to be seen again. Unbeliveably out of the many stewards outside the festival this one just happened to have found my ticket!

HAPPY DAYS! it wasnt all good though, got a bit carried away on the first day of music had a bit of a bad time on too much k & md, and ended up missing Arctic Monkeys, and got my £200 stereo nicked!

Then on the next day spent most my festival money on the worst gear known to man!

A few lessons to be learnt there!

Ahh well!

[cavelier5]

A couple of years ago my mate lost his on a trip back to the car on the Saturday for supplies.

It turned out his loving girlfriend kept the reciept part of the ticket (which is similar) and dumped the actual ticket. The stewards just wouldn't have it and refused to let him back in, claiming it was his hard luck and that he should've been more careful. He got mightily pissed off which didn't help much.

I kinda intervened and tried to rationally ask them what my mate has to do to prove he should be let back in, other that the fact he has a wristband on, plus the bloody receipt for said tickets with his name on it. We were redirected to a queue where a couple of senior stewards would hear him out. Eventually they relented and let him back in, thank God as my mates a bit of a fighter and would have probably gone wading in if they'd told him to go home!

But basically if you do lose it I wouldn't worry too much, as long as you're persistant and don't start screaming at them they should eventually let you back in. As other mentioned before you can always ask them to let you show your confirmation etc on the interweb.

They have to make you jump through lots of hoops, or at least be shown to be making it hard for you, otherwise all kinds of pikey chancers would be trying to blag their way in!

Edited March 25, 2009 by cavelier5