Funniest Quote Yet

This has got to be the funniest 'man in the street' quote yet from someone who attended the Live Earth goregasm in Sydney, Australia:

"This is what happens when you let hippies organise a big event."

Out front, Crowded House were getting reacquainted, Missy Higgins made a cameo with Paul Kelly, and a beamed message from the "former next president of the United States", Al Gore, told the 45,000-strong throng they had the power to halt climate change.

But out back, where revellers go to buy their fluids and to get rid of them, and where big events often live or die, there was a different kind of drought. Faced with record beer queues, thirsty fans at Saturday's Live Earth concert at Sydney's Aussie Stadium were seen by the Herald offering others $50 for their beer rather than wait an hour to buy refreshments.

Thousands, deprived of the traditional rock 'n' roll accompaniment, went to a Coca-Cola stand, forgetting that its manufacturers had been under fire in India for allegedly creating water shortages and pollution around their bottling facilities.

Scores were seen leaving within the first two hours of the nine-hour festival, fed up with the lack of basic services, cutting their losses on a $99 ticket. Gate attendants were heard telling the human tide that they should complain to the promoter.

$50 for a beer because they could not get to a vendor. That is one poorly organized venue. Pamplona does a much better job of it.

Sara Newey, 23, and Rene Armstrong, 25, from Perth, Australia, recounted everything they had to drink in the past twelve hours: a bottle of Jack Daniels, several bottles of sangria, six beers each.

Ah well, Gore is still a legend in his own mind. (The world press is not exactly singing his praises right now. Even Reuters slammed him hard over the events.)

UPDATE: Please go take a look at the roundup that A Blog For All has done. He's got a priceless link (via Instapundit) to the take Colby Cosh has on this whole ruckus. And the first commenter to that piece nails the Gore sycophants to the wall.