Vibes returned to Bridgeport for 2010 only to have another human being die. Drug overdose this time - Saturday night during the Primus show... shit was weird, so many confused hippies during that set, amazing. but apparently the new youth don't know how to handle their drugs.
it's a shame and i hope that the organizer is able to continue offering this spectacular festival in Bridgeport after this... 2 deaths in as many years.

I wasn't even aware the nitrous tanks going around were run by a "mafia." But I'm happy Vibes is gonna be in Bridgeport this year.

die die die u fucking scumbags....u killed someone now its yur turn!!!!

First of all the nitrous mafia have free range at these shows, they pay off SOC, Bridgeport Cops and they know they can get away with anything. I went to the show with some friends they brought some gas. So the first day this chick comes up to my buddy asks him for some rubbers, he obliges, because she's with the mafia and he thinks if he's cool they want steal his shit or kick his ass. So he asks "permisssion" to rage a few tanks. They say no problem just don't setup right next to us. The next day middle of the afternoon our campsite gets raided by SOC and we get kicked out of the show. Their were tanks everywhere at that show. They knew where we were, they were watching us, who do you think tipped them off? The Mafia will fuck with anyone who gets in their way, but someday they'll be the ones that are screwed. Im saddened by this death and I hope justice will emerge.

Jay was my boyfriend for a long time. I refret the last time I spoke to him. He wasd one of the most gernerous people I have, and probably ever will come across. I'm not sure what exactly happend but I know my heart is broken that such a person could just be left there, in the open and the the way people are talking about him, like he wasn't a human. He had a lot of hard times and was just trying to make the best of his life. FOREVER LOVED AND MISSED
I will see you soon enough Jay, just trying to keep my head up

he was an awesome person. i was privileged to be good friends with him. he was good people. he will be so very missed.

www.myspace.com/ripmyfriend

I want to give the frienbs and family of this poor kid my condolances. I never realized there was such an issue with nitrous. Reading all these quotes makes me realize it is a huge problem. Before i had my daughter I enjoyed going to the fest more for the drugs. I went with my daughter to strange creek in May and she loved it. I enjoyed it more than i ever did before. It saddens me to think that such horrible things happen to people out of greed. Like many people said, It's not solely about the drugs. It's about having a good time with nice people and awesome music.

I did not see the body but did see the security guys walking around before the cops showed up and they were white as ghosts.. something more than an OD did happen..

Anyone who has been to Bisco or any huge festie has seen people OD. I personally have found 2 dead bodies that I reported.. Were the bodies blue? Yes! All sorts of strange marks and burns? No!

I have been reading these posts for days..

All the people who say they saw the body said it was abused. If the people who saw the body said the body looked strange and beaten then I believe it. The NO2 dudes were out of control this year and some of security is definitely in on it.. its a no brainer if you have ever watched the scene for any amount of time.

Hopefully his parents or family will push this issue further..

Unfortunately, I don't see this problem going away any time soon. We may not have created it, but we sure do feed it.

The solution is simple. Stop buying it! However, it's not easy to get the masses to go along with it.

Maybe people should start making flyers to pass out in the lots. Not flyers about the dangers of nitrous (the people you're trying to reach aren't gonna buy that kind of preaching anyways). I'm talking about flyers that tell the dangers of the nitrous mafia. Maybe if someone got a flyer about this news story while parking in the lot they would be less likely to support them. I know I wouldn't give them 5 bucks for their hetty balloon after hearing about this.

This is not directly about nitris but it relates to the whole "bad drug" trend going on at festivals.
Last year I attended a festival and I have not been to another since. It was terrible seeing all the people walking around Sunday morning like cracked out zombies and shivering pale and gray underneath blankets in the sun. It truly is sad to see people taking advantage of something good for the sake of drug binges. The festival scene first drew me in for the music and good vibes and a little hallucinations on the side. However, unfortunately it appears to be more about 4 day drug binges with some music in the background. sad sad sad.

To the festival organizers: We spend our money at your shows - to enter, camp out, buy from vendors, listen to awesome music and feel that sense of community and family! We hippies brought the message of love and harmony to all. We supported you during those early years - nitrous tanks were confiscated at the gate, the love, peace and happiness were all around us, the music thrived and we were a community. As these festivals became larger - a dark element entered into the scene. The internet changed everything and brought the dark element to these shows. So many people atend these festivals - not in the hopes of sharing the hippie community, but to make a dollar or do drugs or harm others. I was at the All Good last year and really felt the bad vibe. I will not be returning there again (Sorry, Tim). Being a hippie is NOT about the drugs and party - it is about love, sharing, caring and community. We love festivals as it brings the family together and we get to share in beautiful music. We have lost an innocence in our festivals and it will be up to us, as a community to bring that back. As an organizer - please take the necessary steps within your organization to have a zero tolerence policy on NO2 tanks.
To the Festival Go-ers: This is up to you as well. You can make a difference! Stop buying the balloons. Do NOT support the dark side!

this was my first vibes experience, and after being at over 10 other fests and grimy Bisco the weekend before, i thought this would feel like the best one yet... and then around 630am sunday morning in the middle of coming down and laughing hysterically with friends, we hear desperate calls for the medic and find out that 3 campsites over there is a dead body. it doesn't matter what the papers are saying, obviously the papers are trying to keep things as hush hush as possible. the body was purple and blue with bruises and burns all over his back and face. the people (like myself) that were camped this close by are completely aware that this was the NO2 mafia acting like their fucked up selves and ruining what is supposed to be a music and people loving event. our campgrounds were completely solemn for the entire rest of the day on sunday and people couldn't even stick around for the music because of how awful the situation and investigations were going. even later that day my friends witnessed about 60 members of the mafia beat the shit out of somebody's truck and even threaten to beat up my friends that were just chillin in their car close by. the mafia is fucked up, and even though balloons can be fun, murder is fucking whack, and i'm sincerely sorry for those who have been affected by this most tragic and unfortunate event. although seaside park is a lovely venue, it almost felt like a sick joke sticking thousands of hippies in the middle of the ghetto and then seeing what might happen. peace and love to all of those who choose to enjoy festivals in a loving manner.

ive been going to shows and festivals for close to 20 years now. there is always a "bad part of town" at festivals. usually the ghetto is more under the radar than it was at the vibes. i witnessed police and "SOC" drive right past where the "ghetto was and did nothing but slow down. if there are some of you out there that think that secuirity was not paid off, than you are just as ignorant as the people selling balloons!!!! i was given a hard time by security for trying to sell my hand made art without having a legitiment booth. i was totaly shoked by this and argued with the guy..... letting the balloons be sold is ok, but someone like myself trying to sell some art is not allowed. maybe im just getting old, but it seems like the party is more important than the music. if u go to a festival and do nothing but get fucked up the whole time and dont even see any music....do us all a favor and stay at home!!!!! that kid was definitly murdered....i dont care what the police said or what the paper says.....MURDER!!!!! unbelievable.
i read a sign at the solar cafe (which is filled with great hard working people!!!) the sign read "quit your bitchin, start a revolution"

FUCK YOU NITROUS MAFIA....quit breathing our air and go kill yourselves with your own nitrous!!!!!

Too much talk about gas on here. For all we know this kid OD d on his own, hell he could have died from anything including a pre existing medical condition. I feel for this kid and his family but 20000 people get together there is bound to be a few issues. GOTV staff didnt murder this kid. As a matter of fact I thought the grounds were laid out better than they had been in the past. Theres was always a securirity guy close enough if you needed him but far enough away that you could enjoy yourself without feeling like the fences were a prison. I walked around the grounds by myself all weekend and didnt have any trouble at all. I hope to see the Vibes back in Bridgeport next year too.

The n20 mafia is nothing but a bunch of money hungry SCUMBGAGS. Down with these n20 peddlers.

Nitrous is trash. Nitrous slingers are trash. Even if they have money they are trash. And it's a joke to think that these people think they are "improving" the enviroment.

i've been at every vibes at seaside. when i heard this news, i had to hold back from crying from sheer dissapointment. i can't stress how glad i was to be camped in east camp this year with real family, not west camp, where the majority of the kids don't seem to know what a trash can is, or the meaning of the words "considerate" or "respect", and were there for all the wrong reasons. vibes is a sacred place for the family. not a place to go to only for drugs. yes, drugs are a part of the culture, and i enjoy them - but it's not the reason to go. and they need to be used properly and responsibly - for the expansion of your mind and heart, not to escape reality. the N2O mafia needs to kick rocks. these kids are NOT family. they come for the sole purpose of making money. roll in with 30+ tanks, $5 a balloon, no deals, no quality, and no kindness. they take business away from family vendors. they're ruining our scene. in my opinion, this fest got too big. back in '99, it was less than half this size. ken hays should do what he did back in '02 - sell ONLY 3 day camping passes. fuck day passes, no passes at the gate. if he's worried about losing money, he should scale back on everything, and not book acts like crosby, stills, and nash. FAMILY ONLY. NO DEALS.
keep your heads up, kids. if you see someone throw trash on the ground, pick it up and tell your brother how it is. smile and hug each other. remind each other why we're there - 'cause unfortunately, some of us gotta be reminded. DON'T LET THE CUSTIES GET YOU DOWN! STAY STRONG FAMILY!
much love
mama no deals

family = genuine, kind, generous, honest

I was camped pretty close to the scene and it was really surrounded for a bit. I hate no2 mafia but at one point a mob of hippies basically punched out these kids and wrecked their car because they had a few tanks. I rarely do nitrous but i do see the differene between no2 mafia and kids who have some cans and are selling them cheaper than the no2 maf, i was really disappointed when i saw people who preach peace and love just act so violently, a few people got hurt and some kid's parent's car is beat to shit and of course, some one lost their life. Fuck security for never being anywhere, and equally the cops, if they're gonna hang around they might as well do something worthwhile.

true the nitrous causes problems but it's not the only problem...people cannot handle their acid etc and freak out. Nitrous (crack) Ally was super shady in the day light i can't even imagine what it looked like in the dark, however, I was camped up by the beach and it was not anything like that! I am saddened that events like this can occur at a truly beautiful venue!

For years it's been fuck the people with the gas, fuck gas, we hate gas, but then I see you stand in line and crack out all night long!!!!! Violence is not right, don't kill people, but no one is really saying what happened? Gas is always the scapegoat for every festivals problems...but again the lines are crazy and PEOPLE beg for the gas!! You wonder why the gas crew is angry and dangerous...because they're fuking hunted, hated, and need to be defensive cause they usually have all your money!!

the problem is not the nitrios mafia the problem is the people that are on drugs and cant handle the LSD, Mushrooms, and are always hallusinating and always thinking that the nitrous mafia is always hurting someone, and indeed, they are always making the festival better by bringing in the nitrous so everyone can enjoyable time.

That man got involved with the wrong people.Not enough of us promoting love and good vibes we need to talk about good vibes set a good exsample for one another.there should be people making statements on stage talking about whats rite an setting forth the rite way to be.People do much better with a little direction.The staff could have done more about the scene and the bath rooms but it seemed the concerns were inside and watching over the trash not any staff were out side or at the camp rest rooms or even regulating much at all.Its more than just the nitrous its the gangster mantallity that seems to rule now no more hippies just people strugling to make money.We all need to do ower part and spread the good vibes and set the right exsamples for the others to follow suit much love to all

Been going for 7 years now always had a good time. This year was the worst. I saw people crawling under the fences and many people without bracelets. Security did a terrible job. bracelets were not closely watched.I had friends on shakedown st right near "nitrous ally" They said the didn't get any sleep because of these people. There was no attempts to stop the nitrous mob until the festival was mainly over. It is so sad that someone lost their like over nitrous.

I had heard of 2 buddies being found the one I got a description of sounds like the above story. I heard that he was also burnt. There was a staff member that over heard some nitrous guys saying they were going to find a guy and kill him for stealing money. I hope this was not the same guy.

I miss ILCC there are no sketchy people coming in of the street peedeling there crap. These people ruin the vibes for the rest of us. I am sorry to bridgport, the Vibes organizers and anyone who was affected by this.

I know we picked up two trash bags of stuff that wasn't ares and it didn't even make a dent.

Truly disgusted with the camping atmosphere this year.

its time for open hunting of the nitrous mob
kill or be killed

I woke up at my campsite around 9:30am and as I walked out of my tent I saw crime-scene tape encircling the camp area next to me. I walked 50 feet down the site and saw others looking at the body on the ground covered with a white sheet.
I'm still waiting for the facts, but this was no medical accident.
I know.
I was there.
If the nitrous mob was involved, though.....
Then damn them to hell and it's time for new ideas and plans to put an end to this crap.
That's not what I go to the Vibes for.

Hmmm...witness saw a body dumped from the trunk of a car with PA plates...Nitrous is easily obtained in PA without many restrictions...Many Many nitrous dealers in the vicinity of where body was dumped...witness saw bruised body and burned face....ummmmm unless there is some new awful disease which pumbles you bruised and battered and unless we have some really bad doctors from PA who drive green saturns...Im no sherlock holmes but something tells me this was NOT medically related but in fact a murder and obviously commited by these N20 cats.....

spread the good vibes; down with nitrous mafia!

let's be realistic people; there's always gonna be some nitrous and if you don't do it they can't sell it. i've done it a bunch of times but it is one of the stupiest drugs to over-do that exists, unless you wann be really dumb then you should do a lot. and these fucking 'mob' or whatever, I hate even looking at them so grimey always eyes bulging staring at you, do they even like the music?! ask them next time you see them, they are not hippies by the way, they are just crackheads.

lata

I hope that the Vibes staff in the future will take a more serious stand to Nitrous, and make a strong effort to keep the 'mob' off of the property.

Nitrous suppliers are grimy, angry, and do not know how to enjoy themselves. The thousands of empty balloons scattered all over the place pollute Seaside Park and give it a trashy feel. Overall these people make me feel unsafe and bring a negative atmosphere to an extremely positive event. This action I'm sure would make thousands feel more comfortable, and make the atmosphere a lot less sketchy.

That body was right around where i was camping, pretty crazy. But this shouldnt affect the festival or give it a negative "vibe" its a fun festival with great people. And muoyfrio your an idiot, this festival had no violence involved, if anything it made bridgeport a better place to be, plus alot of news reports are saying no fowl play was involved, the kid obv. overdosed. Also if u think vibes is a bad place try going to camp bisco, much much much worst.

i was there, thats crazy

Family, lets all come together and send our love! lets Keep the nitrous off our lot, and take care of eachother! lovin you guys! my prayers are out to our brother and his family!

true nitros mafia stop bringing that bullsh, just a bunch of worthless braindead,, last year they smashed a kids face in with a tank, this year they kill somebody.. other people need $$ off those tanks too so we all make sure ya'll get what u deserve for ruinin the good vibes. dont show ur faces

I AM SO SAD!!!!!!!! NO MORE F'N NITROUS!!!

You are ruining our good vibes!