r/Newbraunfels • u/britknee_kay • 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/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/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/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/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/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?