Fyre Festival disaster

You're crazy.

 

Even these people aren't dumb enough to go for that.

 

McFarland is obviously a con artist douchebag piece of shit, but I'm still wondering what to make of Ja Rule's place in all of this.
Seems to me he was like a lot of other people who got suckered in by this guy and didn't realize until it was way too late that he was in deep. It hasn't been definitively defined, though, if he was culpable in all of this, or just shackled to a corpse and actually is trying to salvage what he can of his reputation.

 

Fyre emails: Leaked docs show execs were notified of urgent concerns weeks before festival

In an urgent April 3 email with the subject line, "RED FLAG- BATHROOMS/ SHOWER SHIPPING," a mid-level Fyre Festival worker alerted senior staff, including 25-year-old co-founder Billy McFarland and Fyre Media president Conall Arora, of a growing crisis: the unexpectedly high costs (estimated to be at least $400,000) of shipping enough toilets and showers to the Bahamas to accommodate an anticipated 2,500 people on the island.

This followed the news that its caterer, Starr Catering Group, had just pulled out of the festival. Those two events prompted one assistant on the email thread to joke, "No one is eating so therefore no ones pooping."

 

He should have gone into real estate development instead.

Fyre Festival Head Billy McFarland Arrested for Wire Fraud

 

OK. Maybe it's not as bad, but it's pretty bad, even if Pete Wells isn't overly sympathetic.

 

This sounds like a Cosmo Kramer subplot.

 

Seventy-five bucks and the promo poster is a watercolor? Shoulda been obvious.

 

I know there have been a few sketchy beer festivals that have been held around here.

In those cases, actual breweries, who didn't know of anyone participating tried to warn folks off on social media, but many still ended up buying tickets.

I'm not sure I could justify $75 bucks for pizza under any circumstances, but you really need to confirm the participants before attending.

And, unless something is being offered that's not usually available to the public (like some limited release, barrel aged beer at a beer festival, for example), I'm not sure why you wouldn't just visit the participating vendors individually.

 

I'd pay $75 for a pizza, if it came with a $50 bill.

 

Industry Kitchen, South Street Seaport.



We walked past it this summer just for laughs. Then went to Joe's for $2.75 a slice.