I apologize for my terrible grammar, I've lost my glasses.

She probably committed a good 123 of those thefts, the skanky auld slag.

crime rates in my house just went up 100%

or the less solidly it rains the more people drink......that has consequences. 'Hilarious' japes ending in minor crimes and much tears.

I also would have thought figures for last year were exceptional low, due to everyone staying in their tents.

It didn't seem particluarly threatening this year. From what I'd heard crime figures were down.

Black men on stage do NOT increase crime rates. Grow up.

its simple.less mud.easier to move around.therefore easier to nick stuff.i blame will young

I'd heard that the numbers of police and security were reduced this year because the crime figures had been so low in the previous year. The organisers golt complacent... Combine this with better weather=more empty tents and opportunities for thefts.
Nothing to do with Jay Z you massive bell.

yup.

literally A MILLION REPLIES. This is going to be apocalyptic.

coincide!

or maybe you're right, maybe the black man did steal all the wallets....

that G so fly he can steal yo shit wi'out moving off da stage! SUPERFLY! BUM RUSH IN YO TENT.

you fool.

SOMETIMES, WHEN THEY HAVE A HIP HOP GIG IN A NORMAL VENUE, THEY DON'T SELL AS MANY DRINKS BECAUSE, LIKE, ALL THE AUDIENCE ARE TOO BUSY GETTING STONED INSTEAD!

Bless.

See if you can find others who share your view and start a political party?

I'd start by looking in Barking and Dagenahm.

idiots

Then let's see him try to steal from our tents when we're watching Mark Ronson.

it is police subterfuge so fools rail harder in the oppersite direction and they get what they wanted in the start without looking bad.

So a gang of thieves could quite easily get in there, as you could buy tickets on the day, rather than last year with registering a month before and hammering away at the computer for an hour. You would have to have been fairly committed to stealing if you wanted to do so last year.

Doesn't have anything to with JayZ unless you take him as being the main reason it didn't sell out.

when Mean Fiddler began running Glastonbury was because of the criminal types who attended the festival for easy pickings.
It makes sense when they loosen the application process due to poor sales that it will attract more of these types.
The weather thing makes perfect sense for 2 reasons:
1 People drink more and there behaviour changes
2 People spend less time in there tent, therefore it is an easier target for thiefs

the fact that some of you clearly need to look up the meaning of the word "opinion" is quite frankly shocking.

kthnxbye

i'm sure this would count for something. Also, the fact that the headliners were all shit might have something to do with it. I know two people who like hip-hop and they both have criminal records. I think we should get Roger Cook on it.

many people who might not have considered to go before attending. Not on jay z. You fucking idiot.

OK... less mud means site much easier to get round. Site much easier to get round means it's much easier to quickly pass through a field of tents and steal stuff.

There could be any number of reasons why crime is up and yet you choose to centre in on just one with absolutely no basis whatsoever for your arguments. You should apologise for more than your terrible grammar because you're either a troll (in which case: making trouble about something like this isn't funny) or worse.

There were less reported crimes and arrests this year than in 2002.

So who are we blaming for the 2002 figures? Coldplay? Moby? Hang on! Faithless! They got one of dem blacks in haven't they! YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG!

lazy, lazy, lazy casual racism.

Even I can see that the sun gets people out of their tents and offers more chances for opportunists to dip into their tents. If you just thought it through for ONE minute you'd have come up with that - you don't have to be Columbo you lazy, lazy, lazy fool.

Seriously, I hope you are just some numpty who's celebrating the end of their GCSEs by posting idiotic comments like this to provoke a response. Lazy.

That festivals are being targeted by gangs of organised criminals robbing people's tents - Glasto was hit hard because it was easy to get tickets, but expect it to be a theme of fests this year. Look at people's descriptions of what happened on efestivals.co.uk, having a light shined in their face "wrong tent mate" routine, it's all too similar to be unrelated.

Besides, it was the crowd for The Verve that put me on edge more than the one for Jay Z. After all, I thought no one bought tickets because Jay Z was playing?