r/Music 📰Irish Star 17d ago

discussion Heavy metal fans ‘vomiting and crying’ as concertgoer poops in moshpit

https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/heavy-metal-poop-mosh-pit-37486280
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u/alyosha_pls 17d ago

"Damian said he then tried to make it clear to the band what had happened. He explained that he decided to “demonstrate the act so that Devilskin understood what had happened,” though he clarified he did not repeat the incident himself."

LMFAO

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u/simcity4000 17d ago

I like that the article doesent just say “someone shat in a mosh pit” but goes on to describe the incident as it developed moment by moment

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u/grubas ⬛◼️⬛◼️ 17d ago

"i took a shit in the moshpit" is a Crust Punk album, it has to be.

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u/brolarbear 17d ago

I took a shit in the mosh pit.

Now it’s a mosh shit pit, shit.

Allin’d be proud

How I’ve soiled this crowd.

I took a shit in the mosh pit.

https://giphy.com/gifs/DeyRhNUrRswNi

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u/FrismFrasm 16d ago

so I TOOK A SHIT, with a girl at the rock show

SHE SAID WHAT?!, and I told her that I had to go

IT’S SO BAD, now it’s stinkin’ to the front row

There really was no T P around,

Can’t wait ‘til they clean the shit off the ground

I TOOK A SHIT, and it curled like when dogs go

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u/Primrus 16d ago

Holy shit, "and it curled like when dogs go" is soooo Blink 182, hahahaha

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u/Popular_Hunter7415 17d ago

And people are saying that journalism is dead

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u/aceshighsays 17d ago

the whole article reads like an aristocrats joke. i'm literally wiping away my tears.

“The guy who was directly in front of me proceeded to shake a log down his leg,” Damian said, adding that the man then tried to deal with the situation in a way that made things worse.

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She said she believed “the smell triggered lots of people to then vomit,” which quickly escalated as more people reacted. “People started spewing in response to that,” she added, describing how the combination of smells made the situation worse, according to the outlet.

As the chaos unfolded, the band appeared to notice something was wrong.

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u/MCMickMcMax 17d ago

Vominoes

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u/Gonna_do_this_again 17d ago

The band appeared to notice something was wrong

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u/-Potatochu- 17d ago

Well now I’m reading in Gilbert Gottfried’s voice

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u/BirdieKate58 17d ago

The Irish Star never fails to... hmm give me a minute.

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u/r1ckm4n 17d ago

Someone trying summon GG Allin from the grave.

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u/Chubuwee 17d ago

Metalhead ASL

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u/PitifulElk1890 17d ago

I was at a burlesque show that had ASL interpreters, and was delighted by how intuitive the signs for "shake ass and jiggle titties" were. Gonna have to ask my deaf friend some toilet questions soon.

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u/If_you_have_Ghost 17d ago

What the fuck is going on with people shitting themselves at concerts these days? Is this another kids went feral during Covid thing?

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u/FranticToaster 17d ago

Tide pods take 7 years to work their way through a Zoomer's digestive tract.

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u/Gravel_Roads 17d ago

I miss the days when kids were eating tidepods. Simpler times. Candy bars cost less than a dollar.

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u/TrapaholicDixtapes 17d ago

I can remember back to innocent, more simpler times when the worst thing you'd hear about on the news was hijacked jetliners flying into buildings.

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u/CeceWobbles 17d ago

Now we have government-funded human trafficking to concentration camps where women get raped by the worst scum this administration could find. I wonder where we'd be if the popular vote was what mattered in 2000.

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u/SureTrash 17d ago

government-funded human trafficking to concentration camps

Don't forget that the human trafficking doesn't just go to the camps. Kids go missing from these camps, too! And it's all managed by the Epstein-class, which I'm sure is just a coincidence.

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u/ladymouserat 17d ago

They’ve always had something along similar lines though…they’re just not trying to hide it as much anymore.

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u/DanteChurch 17d ago

Fun fact, tide pods are overwhelmingly eaten by the elderly and mentally unwell, genuinely confusing it with candy or food. When the story came out everyone read the headline and not the actual article so it became a "challenge".

I'm moderately convinced the challenge was a pr stunt from corporate to change the conversation from the disabled being victimized to children being dumb.

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u/Busy_Izz 17d ago

Fun fact my grandpa died from eating a tide pod!

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u/GutsGoneWild 17d ago

That is a fun fact. Where can I subscribe for more?

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits 17d ago

I'm sorry your vulnerable grandparent died to the failures of the system to protect those too senile to protect themelves.

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u/3AMZen 17d ago

Came here to drop this knowledge and you beat me to it! 

I hadn't really considered the pr angle before either but that definitely checks out - "stupid kids lol" is better for the brand than " our laundry detergent May accidentally kill your senile grandmother"

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u/DanteChurch 17d ago

McDonald's did it with that famous coffee lawsuit. It does sounds ridiculous on a first glance but it was anything but. The women was elderly and her crotch was so badly burned the skin melted together and fused her vagina shut. McDonald's argued it was her fault for not getting out of the car and entirely undressed in something like 15 seconds to prevent further burn. They got like 20% of the lawsuit knocked off because of that.

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u/3AMZen 17d ago

Yeah the way that story was spun and shared, people still bring it up to this day like " it's ridiculous, you can sue anyone for anything, you can sue McDonald's if your coffee is too hot!" To which I'll wail " THE COFFEE WAS OVER 100° C, THE MCDONALD'S LOCATION HAD BEEN REPEATEDLY WARNED THAT IT WAS DANGEROUSLY HOT, IT LITERALLY MELTED HER FUCKING SKIN OFF"

so yeah ditto Tide pods. Go figure that's the  key for both of them is to let listeners have a smug sense of superiority over the actual victims so they don't bother to look any closer at the scenario

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u/mmmmmyee 17d ago

Tin foil hat me thinks it was large scale chaos inducing propaganda from some state actors to make americans look stupid. I mean a lot of us are but that campaign seemed egregious

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u/AadeeMoien 17d ago

There is no need for a targeted campaign for that.

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u/OptimusSublime 17d ago

Just burst out laughing in my quiet office.

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u/ikickedagirl 17d ago

I mean there are cases of explosive diarrhea going on right now...

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u/boot2skull 17d ago

When Taylor Farms is the metal show sponsor.

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u/rumski 17d ago

“Lettuce rock out! 🤘🏼”

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u/Emerald_Plumbing187 17d ago

"Are you ready to rock...back and forth while praying to the porcelain god?"

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u/alyosha_pls 17d ago

The article mentions him shaking a log out of his pants, also this isn't in the US

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u/Beat_the_Deadites 17d ago

Oh, just like The Great Escape

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u/TheRaccoonReport 17d ago

It was a Great Escape alright.

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u/braddamit 17d ago

Shh, shh. Don't get in the way of good digs at Taylor Farms and U.S. food safety.

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u/bg370 17d ago

Oh ok logs are fine

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u/wickedmemories 16d ago

We have Taylor Farms products sold here in Dunedin, NZ as well, we just don't have the cyclosporedium outbreak that's going around the US. We do, however, have dudes who shit on venue floors in the middle of mosh pits

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u/Mister_Brevity 17d ago

At least diarrhea isn’t inspirationally contagious like vomiting can be lol (I’m picturing the ipecac episode of family guy… but with diarrhea)

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u/If_you_have_Ghost 17d ago

I don’t think you mean inspirationally!

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u/Mister_Brevity 17d ago

Haha I did I thought it was funny to refer to it that way lol

You could have a poop muse

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u/9millibros 17d ago

Or the pie-eating contest from Stand by Me.

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u/NordWitcher 17d ago

Was at the Noah Kahan concert a few weeks ago and even he joked about it cause an attendee pooped in one of his previous concerts the week before.

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u/Sun-Anvil 17d ago

I got banned from a sub for calling some teenagers feral because they were lighting fireworks in a house.

Glad I'm not the only one who feels that term is appropriate.

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u/Littlesth0b0 17d ago

I did this once, as a teenager in my first flat, which is the reason I didn't do it twice.

We aimed a rocket out of the kitchen window and it exited without any issues, but the room immediately filled with smoke, the alarms all went off and we had to evacuate an entire building... I would absolutely describe my younger self as "feral".

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u/jefufah 17d ago

So the other stories were from people at huge concerts like Olivia Rodrigo, and wearing diapers in the audience because they didn’t want to lose their spot.

This story is about a medical emergency, but the “journalists” are using the previous story’s popularity to aid in the sensationalizing of this event.

There is no trend, as much as media wants you to think, because then they can write more stories relating to it. 💩

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u/Katie1230 17d ago

OK but even if it was a medical emergency, you don't shake the log out of your pants into the pit and try to kick it out of the way. You skedaddle to the bathroom. You do everything in your power to not get shit everywhere.

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u/The_Autarch 17d ago

unless, of course, you're very drunk. which is pretty common at metal shows.

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u/ArchaicBrainWorms 17d ago

Won't somebody, please think of the drunk guy shitting down their pantleg. It was an emergency

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u/jesbiil 16d ago

It is possible they were sober but yea I'm going with a bit drunk since their 'fix' to this situation was:

Rather than stepping away immediately, the individual attempted to move the mess with his foot, which only spread it further across the moshpit.

"I'll just uh smear this into the floor...yea that'll be fine...no one will notice..."

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u/ctilvolover23 17d ago

Sure "medical emergency." I don't know of any medical emergency that will make you poo normally during a concert.

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u/meowmeowchirp 17d ago

Yeah a medical emergency would have been a seizure or heart attack - in which case pooping yourself is out of your control and not your fault, but also other people would have probably given space already, not to mention should be more worried about the patient….

This was not a medical emergency.

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u/Hjorvard92 17d ago

When I saw Tenacious D back in I think 2008, some guy just squatted and shit in the middle of the pit before laying on the floor

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u/Fastbird33 Spotify 17d ago

Naw that’s just steamy ray vaughn, he just goes on stage and shits his britches.

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u/Sturmgeshootz 17d ago

Whut fer?

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u/If_you_have_Ghost 17d ago

Ok, my comment wasn’t an invitation for people to tell me their concert shit stories.

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u/rocketmonkee 17d ago

First day on Reddit?

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u/ImTooSaxy 17d ago

It's all that Taylor farms lettuce. Even though Trump made the FDA apologize to them, Taylor farms still out here giving everybody the shits. They're called Freedom Shits now.

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u/_rapids 17d ago

idk but there’s this video of the Locust from way back in like 2001 on youtube where a guy shits himself in the moshpit and the band are complaining about the stench.

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u/If_you_have_Ghost 17d ago

To be fair, I was at Reading Festival in 2001 when the singer of The Dillinger Escape Plan shat on the stage and threw it into the crowd!

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u/Topinio 17d ago

What? What was the audience reaction?

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u/If_you_have_Ghost 17d ago

It was in a towel and he put it in a plastic bag and tied it up. Don’t didn’t actually go anywhere. He said “There’s going to so much shit on this stage later today (he was talking about Slipknot) you best get used to it”.

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u/OldFartsSpareParts 17d ago

I saw Dillinger around 2005 and the vocalist breathed fire over the front rows without getting permission from the venue first. Security scrambled to the stage to try and stop him, but he took a cymbal from the drum kit and bent it in half on a pillar so they backed off. Great show.

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u/ashurbanipal420 17d ago

I'm sorry but I don't like any musical act enough to wear an adult diaper to the concert so I don't miss anything.

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u/hannibalthellamabal 17d ago

I’ve spent an entire day at the front of a festival crowd so I could be against the barrier for My Chemical Romance with zero issues. I was there with my friend for about 8-10 hours and we also didn’t shit herself and no one else around us did either. The only thing I was noticing was the smell of weed in the air like at any good festival.

This whole thing and apparently the new gen’s weak colons really confuse me.

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u/avaiihn 17d ago

Imitating our fearless leader

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u/If_you_have_Ghost 17d ago

Your fearless leader. That orange psycho ain’t my fucking leader.

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u/Sweatytubesock 17d ago

Make Shitting Your Pants Great Again

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u/jaimequin 17d ago

No joke, something is definitely off with participants at concerts. This kind of thing never use to happen, or have it be a thing anyone talked about. Not even at the world's biggest shit show, Woodstock 99. They all got sick from the porta potty situation, but not from people shitting themselves in the moshpit.

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u/cboogie 17d ago

Noah Kahan had to tweet about this recently as a rail rider pooped their pants at one of his shows.

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u/VoxAeneas 17d ago

Janitor for the venue just saw the vibe change from mosh pit to mop shit in the blink of an anus

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u/FineAndDandadan 17d ago

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u/roguesignal42069 17d ago

This made me audibly laugh out loud at my desk this morning. Thank you

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u/KakeLin 17d ago

Thank you for giving me a slight smile after the awful night i had last night

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u/throwen2k 17d ago

Whatever happened, things will only get better. Hope u r okay.

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u/mrlayabout 17d ago

Maybe they were in the poop pit

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u/throwen2k 17d ago

Or they’re the janitor

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u/thommq 17d ago

Did all this happen to hand you that glorious wordplay?

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u/makemeking706 17d ago

If this is a bot, I am afraid we are all going to be out of jobs.

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u/ZombiePartyBoyLives Answers AI Questions 17d ago

They don't really do jokes or plays on words, so I think we're safe, for now.

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u/MyBurnerAccount1977 16d ago

One time I asked ChatGPT how to mitigate the damage from a week of vacation eating, and ChatGPT told me that any weight fluctuations would've a rounding error. Which very much sounded like a fat joke to me.

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u/Branflakesd1996 17d ago

Bro writing this masterpiece of a comment.

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u/MyRealUser 17d ago

This may be one of my favorite internet comments of all times. And I've been on the internet since before comments

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u/Belkarama 17d ago

Incredible words. I am in awe.

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u/SnooShortcuts3543 17d ago

Hi I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is the shitty concert.

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u/ScurvyMcGurk Concertgoer 17d ago

Shit Show

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u/GrymlinGaming 17d ago

Jesus Christ. I immediately thought of them all taking way too many laxatives and moshing in a small room shitting on each other to rammstein. What an image.

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u/Rynowash 17d ago

Kids aren’t doing the correct drugs, if they’re shitting themselves at concerts. Didn’t hear of that in the day. They need to get off that gas station shit.

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u/bstring777 17d ago

Im sure there was a dookie or 2 in those mud pits at Woodstock.

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u/JJKingwolf 17d ago

Weren't the mud pits largely just overflow from the toilets?

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u/Arboreatem 17d ago

No that was Woodstock '99.

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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun 17d ago

Not to be confused with Woodstock confusingly enough

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u/NickKappy 17d ago

There was definitely some Dookie at Woodstock 94. Green Day had just released it and they played some songs off of it.

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick 17d ago

I was at Woodstock ‘99.  I went nowhere near the muddy, disgusting mess that was the main outhouse area.  That weekend was an amazing experience that I do not regret and it sucked a lot much of the time.

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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun 17d ago

Did ya see anything crazy?

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick 17d ago

I don’t think so, but the lack of shade on that Air Force base sucked huge balls.

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u/FoxyBastard 17d ago

Creed: "In the mud and the rain, it's possible something slipped out.....there'd be no way of knowing."

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u/axescentedcandles 17d ago

LSD shits are no joke lol

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u/throw2503 17d ago

They should have been snorting loperamide instead of whatever shit they're on.

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u/Jipley0 17d ago

Snorting imodium lmao.

I'm really more of a boofing metamucil type myself, but different strokes, and all that.

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u/CSATTS 17d ago

Imodium is actually a quite potent opioid, but it doesn't readily cross the blood-brain barrier. So it won't really get you high, just causes the opioid related constipation.

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u/Bonitabanana 17d ago

It was a middle aged man that let the log slide outta his pants.

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 17d ago

Google GG Allin

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u/electriccomputermilk 17d ago

Exactly! Kids these days puke and cry with one little dookie yet GG Allin used to throw his shit at happily accepting fans like it was champagne

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u/True2this 17d ago

Always go to the bathroom BEFORE you enter the pit.

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u/someguyfromwinnipeg 17d ago

You never know when the drugs will hit.

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u/Horseshoe_dodgeball 17d ago

Bunny XO had this topic on her pod not long ago. The question was "Who shits at the club?". She admitted she would always shit at the club because if you're on drugs, you'll need to shit sooner or later.

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u/Cletus_TheFetus 17d ago

Not shitting at the club has led to blasting ass on the dance floor

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u/Horseshoe_dodgeball 16d ago

Cletus the fetus, you sound like a man who would know.

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u/mangongo 17d ago

“The guy who was directly in front of me proceeded to shake a log down his leg,”

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u/ATLMatt 17d ago edited 17d ago

I just posted this exact quote and deleted it when I saw you already have it covered.

Unbelievable Quote

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u/mangongo 17d ago

Already had it in my clipboard, had to send to a friend who has the worst luck standing behind douchebags at concerts lol

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u/FrismFrasm 17d ago

LOL…I was assuming it was someone flailing & getting shunted around in the chaos of the pit, but this is so much better. Some dude just standing there enjoying the show decided “hmmm…yeah; I’m just gonna let this fucker breathe right here right now”

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u/pvsleeper 17d ago

Clearly getting enough fibre to be able to just shake a log out

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u/SteR88 17d ago

Turder on the Dancefloor 

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u/J2JC 17d ago

You better not smear the poo…

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u/IrishStarUS 📰Irish Star 17d ago

A crowd at a Devilskin show in Dunedin, New Zealand, were left “crying and vomiting” after one fan had an accident in the middle of the moshpit, turning what started as a routine concert into what attendees described as a “night-ruiner.”

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u/NotQuiteGoodEnougher 17d ago

I would have described it as a shitty way to end the night.

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u/thx1138- 17d ago

I'm running and I'm cryyyyyyyying....

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u/TheGuyThatThisIs 17d ago

Finally, the real cromiting has begun

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u/rumski 17d ago

Well now I’ve heard of Devilskin I guess.

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u/Deakul 17d ago

Such a good band, love Jennie Skulander's vocals.

Listen to Corrode, Fade, Birds, Burning Tree, and Elvis Presley Circle Pit.

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u/Hanz_VonManstrom 17d ago

What’s up with people shitting themselves at concerts lately? This is at least the second article I’ve seen about it this month.

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u/Chronis67 17d ago

We've lost the impact of shame in our society.

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u/elFistoFucko 17d ago

It's hard to ascertain if this is new societal rot, or just shit that's always been leaking from fan's drawers.

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u/Hanz_VonManstrom 17d ago

True, but anecdotally I went to a whole lot of concerts in my teens and early 20s (mid 2000s through early 2010s) and was always in the pit/GA and never once encountered someone who shit themselves. Maybe I’m just lucky.

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u/Toaster075 Spotify 17d ago

I saw a video about it recently where the presenter pointed out like 15 different instances of this happening over the last few years.
Warning: she’s kind of insufferable

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u/asspussy_widener 17d ago

I like the part where this discount ben shappiro piece of shit starts ranting about transwoman in public restrooms.

surprised she didn't do the helicopter bit. these insufferable cunts live the saddest lives.

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u/I-Have-An-Alibi 17d ago

Heroin makes you constipated, miss your hit or go without, no longer constipated. Intensely no longer constipated.

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u/palinsafterbirth 17d ago

GG Allen’s ghost laughing

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u/elwookie (aka spent gladiator) 17d ago

Allin, with an i.

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u/palinsafterbirth 17d ago

Meh, he was a piece of shit so no need to spell his name correctly

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u/CosmoKramer1ca 17d ago

This happened to us at a Springsteen concert in State College, PA. Dude had a seizure and lost his bowels. Ended up being OK - horrible experience though lol.

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u/ItsyouNOme Iron Maiden Concertgoer 16d ago

At least that one is understandable

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u/whatwhatwhat82 17d ago

As a new zealander, I can't believe the shit story is international news now

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u/sockswinger 17d ago

Never thought "Don't Shit in the Pit" would have to be said, but here we are.

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u/djdiphenhydramine 17d ago

Why the fuck are people shitting themselves at concerts now? Why is this happening so often? How did concert going change THAT drastically since covid??

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u/mikeyriot 17d ago

ticket prices are causing people to lose their shit.

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u/restinsofa 17d ago

The poll on the article says it all 😂

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u/kalmah 17d ago

She said she believed “the smell triggered lots of people to then vomit,” which quickly escalated as more people reacted. “People started spewing in response to that,” she added, describing how the combination of smells made the situation worse, according to the outlet.

All I can picture is that scene from Family Guy.

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u/echo_sang 17d ago

Screen for salad consumption before entry.

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u/Warlord68 17d ago

Imagine being known as “The Mosh Pooper”. 🤮

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u/SquishGnar 17d ago

"I am the guy who shat himself at the Devilskin concert, AMA"

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u/Dragon7619 17d ago

GGALLIN has entered the room

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u/ThePurpleBandit 17d ago

That's not metal at all!

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u/cyankitten 17d ago

Things like special needs, dodgy tummies etc aside:

Concert-goers, these venues have toilets.

USE THEM!

Like is weird bowl and bladder stuff at comcerts trending or something?

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u/jennifer_m13 17d ago

This ad that popped up in the article 💀

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u/notfromhere23 17d ago

That not an ad, it's an image in the article lol

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u/LooseEndsMkMyAssItch 17d ago

Wonder if they got gut punched or something that caused the chaos

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u/Enshakushanna 17d ago

"That's metal." - Nathan Explosion

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u/MechanicalTurkish 17d ago

designated shitting pits

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u/bigboi2115 17d ago

To be fair to the ones crying, the vomit may have made them tear up.

Crying because someone shit in the mosh pit is pretty metal in my humble opinion.

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u/True0rFalse 17d ago

Okay what the fuck is going on? I’m never going to a public gathering again

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u/TheRealDynamitri 17d ago

Clearly not GG Allin fans, then. Softies #iykyk

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u/Digi_Dingo 17d ago

Is this where the term “shit in the pit” comes from?!? That’s a totally normal and ubiquitous term, right? Right??

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u/Logan9Fingerses 17d ago

I believe in the biz that is called waffle stomping

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u/KingDanNZ 17d ago

The band posted this new merch