Let me give you the primest example as to why.

Everyone keeps saying the jumper jumped from the very section I was in. 221. I was 4 rows from the top of that section. The way the seats and leveling has been constructed, you can't see the lowest rows in your section in front of you. So if home dude had a running jump, it would have been well below the stairwell that leads up to the in and surrounding rows I was in. No one let out a yelp. No one around me saw anything odd. And no one knew anything had happened unless someone decided to look at a forum posting during the show.

How did I find out? I was checking the forum postings after Set 1 when I quickly learned about it. What was my reaction? I didn't see anything. I didn't hear anything. There is no commotion in my section. I don't give a rats to go down to the 100 level to do any investigating. I read that in his fall he pushed two people forward and his head hit the concrete and that multiple people started performing CPR on him. If someone has bashed their skull on concrete, I doubt that CPR is going to bring about resuscitation.

With thousands of people in the venue, the pandemic still very much being a thing, my lady at home and I expecting a child, it isn't my business to run down like a 16-year old to get involved in any way, shape, or form. I trust that there are people there tending to the situation quicker than me learn ing about it 20 minutes later. I came to enjoy the show, not try to get involved in the aftermath of a potential jumper.

What was more immediate and pressing for me were dozens of people transiently coming to my section and smoking cigs in my presence that I lost track of how many people I had to ask to not do that around me. I had one person genuinely reflect and apologize to me, but even at that they felt it was necessary to touch me while apologizing. No mask and I'm mentally trying to calm myself that I haven't been able to see my family in 2 years, and now some random person is touching me repeatedly while we're still in a pandemic that it seems everyone has forgotten about. Now if you're saying, "Well why didn't you stay home and watch the webcast if it's still of concern to you that we're in a pandemic?" It is because I have been to a few smaller indoor events that required proof of vax or a negative test from attendees and I position myself far the kcuf away from everyone. I don't mind if a whiff of pot comes in my direction every minute and 30 seconds because that is expected, but I can tell you I have never encountered indoor cig smoking and on top of that, to the degree in which it was happening.

You don't hear much of this discussion because most people are partaking. They do not care. People can ingest all of the alcohol they can handle, but they don't realize they're drinking poison. They're putting poison into their bodies to achieve a temporary high, a temporary escape.

I digress, but the last thing I wanted on SF Night was to hear abruptly that a show that I paid for and came to see and hear, that I'm truly trying to enjoy, has been halted completely because of one person's choice to do what they did.

The other fellow that subsequently fell was purportedly jumping chairs.

The behavior of many of those concertgoers was reckless and without regard to others, without regard to safety, and without regard to themselves. No responsibility for their actions. Grown-ass adults.

The first SF night, the night prior, some babyfaced kid and his quiet friend joined me in my row, no mask on--but 1% of people are wearing masks at this point, I'm still wearing mine--asks me if I had any acid or LSD. Well actually he ice-broke with, "So, do you like Phish?"...I told him I didn't have any acid. He asked if he needed to do some to enjoy the experience. I said, the best way to enjoy Phish honestly is sober. Then he pressed that he had never done it before and wanted to try it and that he was already drunk. I said, if you're already drunk, you don't need anything else. Then he asked me if a guy two rows in front of us would possibly have it. That dude looked even less likely to be possessing LSD but I wanted the kid out of my face so I said, 'Sure. Go ask him.' He said he would give me the thumbs up if he scored any from him. And to be honest, I immediately forgot about that kid and went back to enjoying the show. I know he didn't acquire LSD from that guy, but I wasn't looking for any confirmation as to whether that happened. And even when we discussed as to whether or not he needed it, twice over I advised plainly that he didn't need to. Yet he was still going to seek it out because that was his mission and he wasn't going to be swayed from it.

I went to SAC and both SF shows and every night before entering and upon leaving, there were scores of people at the front of the venues with balloons sucking the nitrous oxide out of them, and it was a sad sight.

There was no security at these events whatsoever. No enforcement of anything. If there were ushers at SAC, they disappeared once show began. No one regulating. Frankly, the venues should be held in violation for having inadequate staffing. But this is all due to jobs not being taken and vaccine requirements and people protesting this. Having now experienced this lack of regulation, this brings about more freedom for people to do whatever it is that they want to do. And that means not caring about your fellow concertgoer. If you're gonna chain smoke in a public facility--where it's illegal because it infringes on the health of others who wish to not partake in inhaling cancer sticks second-hand--for starters, you're gonna chain smoke to your heart's content. You're gonna get dekcuF up and let all your inhibitions run wild, if you choose to have that experience.

Some folks are attrbuting the recklessness to tickets being sold for $20 or given away for free. I couldn't sell my extra tickets for face because of this, so they went unused. And people who normally couldn't afford to go to a show could now get in and bring their non-etiquette stance with them.

These are also the first of many big indoor shows while we're still in a pandemic. You have restless people who just don't care. The number has compounded.

The truth of the matter is, that the few trollers here are just a small percentage of the community that really truly are assholes, unkind, thoughtless, and non-compassionate people. Actions not words, let me tell you.