Young revellers （人命などを）奪う，主張する they are 罠にかける at 悲惨な Splendour in the Grass festival because staff 'won't let them leave' after they had enough of the muddy 大混乱 and 豪雨

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Young revellers sick of the 大混乱／混沌とした and muddy 条件s at Splendour in the Grass （人命などを）奪う，主張する they became 罠にかける at the festival because staff would not let them leave.

The iconic?Byron Bay musical festival has been 疫病／悩ますd by tribulations after the 開始 day was cancelled on Friday as 豪雨 turned the 場所／位置 into a 沼.

The downpour 緩和するd on Saturday but took another turn for the worse at about 11pm as thousands of attendees trying to get 支援する to their accommodation for the night waited up to six hours for buses.?

Now, one woman has taken to TikTok to 明らかにする／漏らす she and her friends were not 許すd to leave にもかかわらず 存在 （軍の）野営地，陣営d metres from a road.?

'We tried for like five hours yesterday and last night to get out of here … they’re just not letting us leave,' Hannah Patterson said.?

Hannah Patterson (権利) said her group is not 許すd to leave Splendour in the Grass because staff will not let them

Ms Patterson said the group have tried their hardest to enjoy the festival, but the 条件s made it difficult.

'I've had wet feet and shoes for days... We have been sleeping upright in the car because all of our stuff was in the 支援する because it has been raining.?

'We are just over it.

'We paid to be here and it has been really horrible and we just want to leave but they’re not 現実に letting us go.'

Ms Patterson said their car was 封鎖するd from the road by a small portable 盗品故買者, which could be easily moved by staff, who 辞退するd to take it 負かす／撃墜する.

'They're like no "we've got other things [to do]. It's too much 成果／努力. Just wait until Monday, stick it out for two more nights".'

'We've already been here three nights. I am so over it.'?

'I would love some 肉親，親類d of refund, but honestly - I don't even mind. I just want to go. If I want to go, I should be able to go.'

Ms Patterson said she and her friends were sick of the wet 条件s, which had 軍隊d them to sleep upright in their car

However, in a ビデオ 地位，任命するd eight hours later on Sunday afternoon, Ms Patterson 明らかにする／漏らすd she was finally 許すd out after her mother （機の）カム to the 救助（する）.

'My beautiful mama 耐える went 十分な psycho and was calling people till 12am - hitting all of the 緊急s, calling all of the hotlines, and sorted it out,' she said.

'And we were able to get out, thank goodness!'?

The 出来事/事件 come as 失望させるd attendees took to social マスコミ to complain they waited until 6am to get a bus out of the festival on Saturday.?

In a 声明 on Sunday, organisers said everyone was off the 前提s by 3:30am, with people heaping その上の 批評 after the 返答.??

'We hear you and we understand your 失望／欲求不満 with our bus services last night,' Splendour 地位，任命するd to social マスコミ.

'Our event 場所／位置 の近くにs at 2am and 90 per cent of our bus patrons were offsite by 3:30am, like it was in 2019.

'Unfortunately, some of our Tweed 大勝するs experienced 延長するd 延期するs 予定 to bus driver 不足s.'

Attendees said they were 欠如（する）ing 責任／義務 over a perceived 欠如（する） of logistical planning after thousands were 軍隊d to move to offsite campgrounds.?

The Byron Bay music festival has been 疫病／悩ますd by 問題／発行するs after rain turned the 場所／位置 into 沼

Festival-goers 列ing for coffee on Day 2 at Splendour in the Grass stand on スピードを出す／記録につけるs to escape flood water

'There is a 限界 of what number of excuses you can continue to use. 受託する 責任／義務 that you have not run the festival 支え（る） erly and apologise for that,' a woman replied.

'While the music was incredible, your festival sucks. It was so 貧しく organised it appears you don't 現実に care. Caring means 資源ing the event adequately. You have to over 資源 so you have contingency to 落ちる 支援する on,' another commented.

'I knew this was going to be an 問題／発行する on Friday, when you had TWO buses to 輸送（する） thousands of people to and from the 発生地,' a man 追加するd.

Some even 示唆するd the 欠如（する） of planning was 'dangerous' and that she heard 'desperate cries for medics' after people 猛烈に 殺到d for buses.?

'I was so 脅すd of 存在 鎮圧するd in the bus （人が）群がる last night with peoples desperation 増大するing as the morning approached. No （人が）群がる 支配（する）／統制する and no staff in sight! Thank god there were no 死傷者s,' she wrote.

People took to social マスコミ after some waited as long as six hours to get 輸送（する） 支援する to their accommodation.?

'When you've been in the bus line for four hours and still have so far to go,' one woman wrote on TikTok と一緒に a ビデオ of （人が）群がるs packed in the 氷点の 冷淡な waiting for 輸送（する）.

失望させるd attendees took to social マスコミ to complain they waited as long as six hours for a bus to 選ぶ them up

In a 声明 on Sunday, organisers said everyone was off the 前提s by 3:30am, with people heaping その上の 批評 after the blunt 返答

Day three of the festival saw sunny skies after Splendour organisers had to 取り消す its 開始 night

'This is so grim, shame on the organisers! What do they 推定する／予想する not 許すing people to be 選ぶd up and no parking - total scam artists,' another wrote.

'Splendour should be so ashamed of themselves.'?

によれば attendees, 労働者s at the festival didn't 供給する water or warmth for the shivering （人が）群がるs.?

'Don't let them fool you, we had to beg for water. There was no communication from anyone as we stood there for hours. They said they would bring 一面に覆う／毛布s and never did,' a 失望させるd reveller wrote.

'There's people here without shoes, jackets, food and the 量 of buses in comparison to people is ridiculous.'

Splendour in the Grass revellers were 軍隊d to wait as late as 6am to get a bus out of the festival grounds on Sunday morning

Other festivalgoers slammed the organisers' poor planning, complaining they were still waiting for a bus by the time the sun was rising.

'Not to について言及する it's a PREBOOKED bus ticket… like they knew how many people needed to go home,' one woman in the group wrote.

'Update: just got home. It's 6am. The sun is UP.'

One woman said organisers should rethink their 決定／判定勝ち（する） to go from a 40,000 capacity to 50,000 as there weren't enough 資源s for that many attendees.

'I understand there are so many factors playing a part in things going wrong but 以前 when it was capped at 40,000 waiting time to get home was never that long, two hours max,' she wrote.

Festival co-創立者 Jessica Ducrou 主張するd the music festival was 安全な to …に出席する and staff were carrying out 修理s on-場所／位置 to 確実にする the event could go ahead until its last day on Sunday.?

'We've had muddy events before, it's not new to us, but I think the 量 of rain that the Northern Rivers has received over the past six months has made it very difficult,' she told ABC.?

Organisers were 軍隊d to 取り消す main-行う／開催する／段階 業績／成果s on the first day of the festival on Friday まっただ中に flooded campsites and 延期するs 接近ing the 場所／位置

Thousands of festivalgoers were 軍隊d to spend the night on the flooded campgrounds with growing calls for the music event to be cancelled

Festival co-創立者 Jessica Ducrou told punters to 'bring your gumboots' with the grounds still 潜水するd in 厚い mud and 洪水s on Saturday

'Everyone's working as hard as they can to make this an experience they deserve, but it is very challenging 条件s.'?

Organisers were 軍隊d to 取り消す main-行う／開催する／段階 業績／成果s on the first day of the festival on Friday まっただ中に flooded campsites and 延期するs 接近ing the 場所／位置.

Thousands of festivalgoers were 軍隊d to spend the night on the flooded campgrounds with growing calls for the music event to be cancelled.

Kadence Mathers was の中で the revellers who 述べるd the 状況／情勢 as 'grim' 説 that a 安定した stream of rain 夜通し had 追加するd to her 悲惨.

'I'm standing in... my 完全にする foot is in water 権利 now,' she told the Today Show on Saturday morning.

Ms Mathers ビデオd the campgrounds 潜水するd in floodwate rs with cars bogged 負かす／撃墜する in 厚い mud.?

She went inside her テント to 明らかにする／漏らす it had become a 'waterbed' with 洪水s becoming 罠にかける between the ground and the 床に打ち倒す of the テント.?

'I've been using socks and stuff to mop up the water that is coming in,' she said.?

Ms Mathers 自白するd she just 手配中の，お尋ね者 to lea ve the campgrounds, but would be unable to go anywhere until her car was 解放する／自由なd from the 厚い mud.

'I mean it would be good for the festival to go ahead, but it's not fun in there,' she said.

'It's 完全に flooded and muddy. You can't walk without slipping. It's not fun.'?

A 厳しい 警告 for 損失ing surf has been 問題／発行するd for the Byron, Coffs Coast, Macquarie and Hunter coasts (pictured, muddy grounds at the music festival on Friday)