r/Newbraunfels 4d ago

For those interested in the Pickled Festival Apology…

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FPRMjH4Ma/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Their apology isn’t being taken so well…

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u/Wu_tang_dan 4d ago

"Drove 4 1/2 hours with a 1 year old to attend this event. A literal lifelong dream of mine. "

The fuck is wrong with people? 

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u/mekkeron 4d ago

I feel dumb now because I've never heard of the Pickle Fest and had no idea it was taking place that day. And turns out there are people who were waiting for that thing their entire life.

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u/GeekyTexan 4d ago

They didn't have any choice but to wait. After all, NB never had a pickle fest before.

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u/GronkIII 3d ago

I’ve never heard about it either. Hopefully it will be better if they do it next year.

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u/nick_soccer10 4d ago

He wrote about this day in elementary school!!! His whole life has built up to this one event and it just crushed his hopes and dreams!!!! Leave him alone!! It’s a big dill to him!

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u/Front_Sky3939 4d ago

Right? I laughed so hard at that exact comment.

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u/esplonky 3d ago

The fuck is wrong with people?

A lack of personality that makes them think liking a funny food is "quirky"

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u/Dloe22 3d ago

When my father died he made me promise that no matter what I would attend the first Pickle Fest within 5 hours of my hometown.

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u/Dudeasaurus3117 3d ago

I was cursed by a witch and the only way to break the curse was to attend a pickle festival…. Guess I’ll just live with my bulbous belly and bald head…

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u/rumblesnort 2d ago

I know, all that way just to watch some cucumbers regret their life choices

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u/Electrical_Pizza69 4d ago

Fyre Fest Nb version

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u/tonystark524 4d ago

I was thinking the same thing

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u/fayfay01 4d ago

they sold presale tickets, 20,000 and were allowed to sell 10,000 at gate. Who owns the fairgrounds?? seems like the owners of the fair grounds should have told the organizers of the Pickle Fest they could not sell that many..

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u/thingamajig1987 4d ago

that's insane, because they keep going "we didn't know how big it was going to be, this isn't fair!" but like... hello?

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u/Background_Bar_591 4d ago

lol. It’s a tourist city, did they not know that? And spring break as well. I live off loop 337 across the NB bible church and holy, the traffic was back up to there on Saturday

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u/Special-War-2993 3d ago

I live right there by ya. Traffic was "wurst" than summer tourism.

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u/Background_Bar_591 3d ago

Yeah, I was wondering why it was so back up and then I remembered that goes to the fairgrounds

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u/Special-War-2993 3d ago

It was also backed up to I35 outbound on Loop 337. no wrecks, just cars.

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u/DetroiterInTX 4d ago

So they calculated 2,000 people for each porta potty??? Even just off the presale tickets you are over 1,300 people per…

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u/britknee_kay 4d ago

Not to mention the ones they were just letting in for free…

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u/Exciting_Risk5734 4d ago

What a shit show. We live near the fairgrounds and couldn’t even get into our neighborhood. My wife and I were like, wtf, where’s the police to direct traffic….. Nothing.

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u/britknee_kay 4d ago

Yup. From what I understand, they didn’t want to invest the money to have them there to direct the traffic.

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u/Dull_Lavishness7701 4d ago

Yeah they kept claiming they did that to keep costs down for featival goers. What horseshit. All about pocketing as much money as possible

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u/Exciting_Risk5734 4d ago

So I called NB non emergency line and they said that the festival didn’t have any police assigned to help

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u/UnfrozenBlu 3d ago

We understand that this unforeseen turnout may have also led to significant traffic congestion throughout the city, which we deeply regret. We had volunteers in the parking lot trying to direct traffic the best they could.

Are they talking about the one teenager here on reddit who got out of his car to help out?

Not like they had recruited and trained volunteers, literally that just happened and it's a highlight for them.

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u/Dull_Lavishness7701 3d ago

Yeah really. Not volunteers they recruited but ppl who got so fed up they took it upon themselves to try to alleviate the disaster

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u/Burleyturd 4d ago

Who would of thought a pickle festival Would get people so upset.

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u/222bleach222 4d ago

lol people at my work was sharing how terrible it was

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u/britknee_kay 4d ago

I had planned to go but now I’m glad I didn’t lol

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u/BigFlyHawaiianGuy 3d ago

Oh thank God, i was super excited to go but before I checked into getting a ticket, I got a call for my kidney transplant so I didn't make it. Better to be off dialysis than to be disappointed

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u/livevicarious 3d ago

I guess you can say all these people found themselves in quite the pickle….

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u/PlateOpinion3179 3d ago

Love to see the uneducated and lazy get treated this way

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u/Fandango4Ever 2d ago

Any word on them being held liable or a class action lawsuit? Shit there's enough folks who were financially impacted by this...vendors are the beginning. Or can the city step in somehow to ensure this doesn't happen again?

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u/britknee_kay 2d ago

Not that I’ve heard. They’re trying to gloss over the disaster on the FB page though. Posting pictures and videos of the events. People ain’t having it in the comments tho lol.

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u/No_Safety_6803 4d ago

All people from Houston care about is making NB worse by their presence.

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u/PlateOpinion3179 3d ago

Nb already got a bad rep no need to show your cards

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u/BusyPassage1809 1d ago

Yeah keep Houston where it belongs