A new Netflix docuseries is exposing the atrocities of the Woodstock music festival for the first time in-depth.
According to Carson Daly, the automobile collision at Woodstock in 1999 was “male toxicity at its best,” and he believed he was going to die there.
The TV presenter was one of a handful of young reporters dispatched by MTV in 1999 to cover the music festival in upstate New York.
The event, which marketed itself as the contemporary equivalent of the legendary Woodstock festival of the 1970s, was doomed from the start.
Numerous accounts of women being sexually attacked in the crowd led to the hospitalisation of dozens of patients and the deaths of three persons.
The festival organisers, performers, and journalists were forced to flee the event as enraged crowds set fire to vendor booths, smashed into ATMs, and tore down equipment.
The Mickey Mouse security forces were quickly overwhelmed and overpowered.
The new Netflix documentary series Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 has brought a post-MeToo spotlight to what was once a major international news event.
Daly, who is now 49, covered the event for MTV when he was 26 years old.
In one scene from the documentary, he is seen being hit with trash and plastic bottles.
This past weekend, after receiving several inquiries from friends and followers about what it was like, Daly revealed on Instagram that he believed he was going to “die.”
All I can tell is that I believed I was going to pass away. It got off to a wonderful start before being pummelling with bottles, rocks, lighters, and other objects.
“It became crazy. As soon as dusk fell, the convicts took control of the facility. Backstage, our team hears my supervisor Dave declare, “We can no longer guarantee your safety.”
“I recall being in a production van speeding through cornfields carelessly to get safety. Now it was all a blur and so wild.
“I only recall having the impression that a war was taking place in another nation.”
This was not one of the fun recollections I had from that time.
At the Today programme on Monday morning, Daly said that the event was “male toxicity at its worst.”
Every possible negative outcome occurred. It was sick and the worst kind of male poison.
On August 3, the documentary was released on Netflix, where it has already received hundreds of millions of views.
It gives the impression that the major parties in charge of organising the event were more concerned with making a profit than with the security or wellness of the attendees.
Despite the fact that musical artists were well-cared for backstage, children struggled to find shade, a place to dump their garbage, or even a drinking fountain on the vast festival grounds.
It is implied that the performers, Korn and Limp Bizkit, recklessly whipped up the audience into a frenzy.
During Fatboy Slim’s performance in the “Rave Tent,” one of the three-day event’s most alarming incidents occurred when the crowd took control of a vehicle and drove it into the mosh pit.
A guy was standing over an unconscious female while putting up his trousers when cops arrived at the vehicle and unlocked it.
She was allegedly raped in the rear of the car, in full view of the audience, according to the documentary.
Before the documentary series was shown, Michael Scott Lang, one of the event planners, passed away in January.
The turmoil is mostly attributed to him and concert promoter John Scher.
In one scenario, he makes the absurd claim that the crimes committed during the festival are comparable to those perpetrated in a city with a similar population.
At the event, three individuals perished, including 24-year-old David Derosia who passed away from heat stroke after passing out in the throng.
His mother sued the event planners in 2001, but the case has not been settled.
At the event, Tara Weaver, 28, lost her life after being struck by a vehicle as she was leaving a performance.
At the event, a 44-year-old guy who was not named also passed away.
A few cases brought against the event were resolved confidentially, but no one has been charged with a crime.
There were’multiple’ incidences of rape and sexual assault that were looked into by authorities, according to a horrifying 1999 MTV investigation.
It’s unknown whether anybody has ever been detained in relation to the incidents.
According to a volunteer who saw one of the assaults and a rape counsellor who helped the victim in the other, at least two women were sexually assaulted in the mosh pit at Woodstock ’99 over the course of the festival’s last weekend.
The lady was reportedly raped and abused by many guys in each incident, which took place on successive nights of the three-day, 30th-anniversary Woodstock ’99 event, while concertgoers in the area applauded her abusers.
The on-site trooper-supervisor was suspended without pay following allegations that he encouraged female Woodstock attendees to pose nude for photos with police, according to the internal-investigations office of the New York State Police in Albany, according to Jamie Mills, director of public information. The inquiry is still ongoing.
While the New York State Police have been evasive about reports of sexual assault cases at Woodstock, officials finally confirmed on Thursday, July 29, that they are looking into four alleged rapes that are alleged to have happened during the outdoor concert held on the former Griffiss Air Force base in Rome, New York.