It’s Glastonbury this weekend and I bet you didn’t know the famous British festival has its own ‘jail’, where criminals and people who break the rules are taken.
Okay, it’s not an actual jail with cells or anything. However, it is a fenced holding area for drug dealers, fence jumpers, people who are too drunk and and anyone else who has done something wrong.
One guy was taken there last year because he was caught trying to break into Glastonbury without a ticket, and it sounds like a weird old place.
“The jail is a square with security fences surrounding it, a covered area for sitting and foil blankets which people were taking to sleep in,” the 26-year-old told The Times.
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“There was a weird mix of drug dealers, people who have been taken out of the festival for being too drunk or high, and those who had tried to break in.”
He said every time a drug dealer came in it was a “spectacle” for everyone else in the ‘jail’, and the security would announce the big dealers as they brought them in.
One of his friends revealed they weren’t the only trespassers in the strange jail, and it was obvious who else had tried to jump the four-foot fence because their legs were scratched from lying in the brambles.
“We met a guy who had been scammed £4,000 for a wristband, while someone else had managed to get all of his friends in before him, but was caught trying to get through the gap in the fence himself,” he said.
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Strangely, the ‘jail’ didn’t have any police in it. Instead, it was run by festival staff who took down the names of the trespassers to try and stop them from ever doing it again.
In fact, it doesn’t actually sound very scary at all. Apparently, you can charge your phone in there and ask for cups of tea. How pleasant!
“There were Oxfam representatives who were making sure you’re ok, and the staff were super-nice. They kept us warm and fed us Pot Noodles,” one of the guys said.
His friend added: “It’s really not that bad in there. There are sandwiches. They keep you there for ages though, you have to be ‘processed’.”
While the rule-breakers are in the strange ‘jail’, this is how the other half are living with their £30k Glastonbury glamping experience. Yes, £30k!
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