Animal Abuse at Boomtown
On Saturday morning in Valley camping (near the top of the hill closest to the Tangled Roots entrance) we witnessed a 20-something blonde guy bring a baby bird back to his camp, enclosed in his hands, claiming it had a broken wing and that he was going to he kill it to "put it out of its misery". A few girls in his camp were telling him not to do it, asking him to open his hands to see if it could fly away, but he refused to open his hands to let them see if it could. Some of the guys in his camp were egging him on, laughing and joking about how he should kill it.
He eventually left camp and returned about 5 mins later with the bird, now dead and beheaded, laughing and displaying it to everyone in his camp. He then proceeded to spike its head on the top of a used smart whip canister, again laughing and joking about it.
We wanted to say something at the time, but we were genuinely so disturbed by this cruel and psychotic behaviour that we were worried he would do something to us or our camp in return for calling him out. We resolved to say something on Monday morning, but they were already gone by the time we woke up.
We never expected to see this kind of behaviour at Boomtown - it completely goes against the vibe of the whole festival. I just wanted to share this in hopes that they would see it and realise how fucked it up it was. I hope karma slaps him in the face hard and that he never returns to Boomtown again.