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A villager local to Glastonbury has fumed they're sick of festival-goers relieving themselves in gardens.
The resident who asked to remain anonymous due to fear of reprisal told the Daily Star that as a Worthy Farm neighbour "you daren’t anything anti-Glasto out loud, it’s like a cult".
Traffic chaos and with it hordes of campers has begun to descend on sleepy rural Somerset which can only mean the world-famous Glastonbury Festival is back.
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What maybe an annual highlight for music fans partial to several nights in a tent surrounded thousands of other boozy campers, is in fact a week dreaded by the few who see the festival's dark side.
The angry local blasted Glastonbury organisers over social media: "Please tell your festival goers to respect the local communities they drive through. No defecating in gardens, weeing in bus shelters, chucking rubbish everywhere & just be nice to the locals trying to get to work and school!"
When pressed for more information by the Daily Star, they shockingly revealed: "Defecating has happened to someone at church where I went to hear my sons wedding banns.
"They prayed for patience with the ‘invasion’."
By Tuesday evening – four days before the Pyramid Stage sees action – our Somerset insider had already unwittingly spotted their first spate of anti-social antics.
"I witnessed myself yesterday a car stop in my village," they said. "Four lads got out and went into the stone shelter and weed on the back wall while the diver sat in the car with the engine running."
Rubbish "chucked out of car windows" is another cause for fury.
Businesses catering for the hungry masses ultimately leads to a rise in litter-strewn roadsides which our source claims poses a danger to livestock.
The continued: "There is a local Co-Op , for instance, that opens early to cater for the Glastonbury crowds. They sell burgers, sausage rolls etc from a cabinet in yellow polystyrene containers.
"Drive a mile or so up the hill and you will find the containers on the roadside next to fields full of cattle and sheep. This never happens at any other time of the year.
For anyone thinking residents should know what they're getting when moving into a home near Britain's biggest music festival, this local of 56 years says it wasn't always like this.
They said: "My parents and relatives went to the first and early ones but it gets progressively bigger every year it seems with souvenir tea towels even. I’m not a misery… it’s just a collective sigh till it’s over."
When asked what residents would like to see happen in an attempt to prevent such behaviour, a statement and signs would suffice.
The resident told us: "A general message from the organisers asking attendees to respect where they are going, not just the field they camp on would go some way to not getting on everyone’s nerves every year.
"Maybe signs in lay-bys reminding people not to litter and be respectful, or extra bins in lay-bys along the route? Not to mention the noise pollution and the eco friendly helicopters overhead for the weekend."
The Daily Star has contacted Glastonbury Festival for a comment.
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